Project will see demolition of 1980s offices and revamp of grade II-listed City Temple
Eric Parry Architects has won planning permission to demolish a 1980s office building in the City of London and replace it with a 10-storey hotel.
The project to redevelop TP Bennett’s Morley House, on Holborn Viaduct, will also include the refurbishment of the neighbouring grade II City Temple, a church designed by Lockwood and Mawson. Planners described the proposal as a way of securing the long-term future of what is sometimes referred to as the non-conformists’ cathedral.
The scheme has been worked up for Shiva Hotels, which is the developer behind Parry’s proposals to redevelop the Brutalist Wigmore Street car park off Oxford Street.
Parry’s designs for the current nine-strorey Morley House, will see it replaced with a 10-storey, 191-room hotel. The building would be predominantly stone-faced towards Holborn Viaduct, where it would be bookended by the grade II-listed South West Pavilion and City Temple.
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