Kensington High Street

Mixed Use, Retail, Workplace, Residential

A characterful mixed-use scheme of retail, office space and residential units on a busy high street opposite High Street Kensington underground station.

Client: HSPI Limited
Size: 438 sqm retail, 689 sqm office, 4 residential units
Cost: £9m

Retaining the original (unlisted) facade, an additional floor is inserted with an extended, setback mansard roof.

Planning was achieved under delegated powers as the proposals had won support from the LPA and local interest groups. Technically challenging, the site is directly over the District Line, in such close proximity that the existing retail was built directly off the brick arches of the tunnel.