LGP secures planning for West End redevelopments

Legal & General Property (LGP) has successfully secured planning consent for its prime, West End office and residential redevelopments of 7-10 Hanover Square and 103-109 Wardour Street.

Planning permission was granted on Tuesday night by Westminster Council.

Hanover Square is located in what is expected to become one of Mayfair’s most sought-after squares, following the completion of Crossrail. The redevelopment will comprise a 56,000 sq ft high quality office-based scheme, arranged over two basements, ground and seven upper floors.

Work is due to start on site in August 2014, with completion targeted for March 2017. Make Architects is behind the designs of the building.

103-109 Wardour Street is situated in the heart of Soho, on the west side of Wardour Street, which runs from Leicester Square to Oxford Street. Plans have been approved for the Sheppard Robson designed residential conversion of the upper floors of this office based building. The project will provide 15 high-class residential units, totalling 16,000 sq ft, including two duplex penthouse apartments with seventh floor terraces.

'With a shortage of high-quality West End office space, both in terms of current supply and that forecast to come to the market, we believe 7-10 Hanover Square has the potential to take advantage of strong occupier demand when it is delivered to the market in 2017,' said Simon Wilkes, head of Business Space Development at Legal & General Property.

Jones Lang LaSalle has been appointed to the role of development and letting agent on 7-10 Hanover Square and CBRE on Wardour Street. Mace is the project manager, WSP Group the engineer, EC Harris is the cost consultant and Gerald Eve acted as planning consultant on both projects.