Film legend part of team to create 83-room boutique hotel in WC2 block
Plans to create a boutique hotel backed by Hollywood legend Robert De Niro in Covent Garden have been approved by Westminster City Council.
The Wellington Hotel scheme - drawn up by architect Kohn Pedersen Fox for developer Capital & Counties Properties (Capco), De Niro, and operator BD Hotels - includes three Grade II-listed buildings in a single four-street block southeast of the area鈥檚 famous market.
The proposals, which would also provide new office, retail and restaurant space and a private members club, will see the redevelopment of all but the facades of non-listed buildings in Tavistock Street, Wellington Street, Burleigh Street, and Exeter Street, and the creation of a new courtyard-conservatory area. Capco said it intended to retain one non-listed building in its entirety.
The height of some of the buildings will be increased with mansard roofs and 鈥� in the case of Wellington House - a roof garden. The tallest element of the scheme is set to be eight storeys.
De Niro has previously said the scheme would 鈥渉onour the heritage of the area鈥�, bringing the spirit of his previous development 鈥� New York鈥檚 Greenwich Hotel - to Covent Garden.
Documents submitted with the application showed Heyne Tillett Steel as structural engineer for the project and Gardiner & Theobald as QS.
Cllr Robert Davis, Westminster City Council deputy leader, said: 鈥淭his is one of the finest schemes we have considered for Covent Garden in years. The design is of the highest quality and it fits the bill as a Covent Garden building that meshes the new with the old. The hotel will attract visitors from all over the world.
鈥淚t will be a brand new destination on the 鈥榤ean streets鈥� of this largely forgotten part of Covent Garden, and so I am sure that taxi drivers across London will soon need to add the Wellington Hotel to their A-Zs.鈥�
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