"Plans to transform the former home of BHS and the London College of Fashion (LCF) in Oxford Circus have been given the green light. First announced in August, the proposals to turn 33 Cavendish Square into a massive office block and shopping centre are officially going ahead. Westminster City Council has unanimously granted planning permission to developers Berkeley Estate Asset Management (BEAM) and architects Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to renovate the historic building that is just round the corner for Oxford Circus tube station."
"The building was occupied by the high street stalwart BHS from 1961 until 2016 when the company went bust. UAL's London College of Fashion campus was also housed there until 2023 when it relocated to Stratford. Prior to the council's decision a group of campaigners had launched a petition to save the building that opened in the early '60s, calling it 'a key example of mid-20th-century modernist educational design'."
Westminster City Council has granted planning permission to Berkeley Estate Asset Management and Kohn Pedersen Fox to redevelop 33 Cavendish Square near Oxford Circus. The scheme converts the former BHS and London College of Fashion building into mixed-use office, cultural and retail space with a remodelled façade. The development will provide about 75,000 square metres of offices and 3,500 square metres of retail and cultural space, including an auditorium suitable for TED talks, product launches and fashion shows. More than half of the existing structure will be retained and upgraded to be all-electric and net zero. Campaigners and alumni had petitioned to preserve the building's mid-20th-century modernist educational design, but the full renovation will proceed.
Read at Time Out London
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