Green light for £40m Mayfair ‘COVID-19 compliant’ mixed-use development

A new London mixed-use development that aims to be ‘COVID-19 compliant’ has been given the go-ahead.

London-Monaco property firm REDD has secured planning permission from Westminster City Council for a new £40m mixed-use scheme in Mayfair.

Comprising 10,000 sq ft, the 82 Mount Street development will see the Victorian mansion building at the corner of Mount Street and Balfour Place transformed into apartments and a penthouse on its upper floors, as well as retail and office space at ground and lower ground level.

The development will also offer COVID-19 safeguarding and homeworking features, including a socially distanced concierge, ‘no touch’ passenger lifts, contactless fobs and home-office space.

Construction work is scheduled to begin in autumn, with build completion scheduled for late 2021.

Russell Smithers, managing director of the REDD operation in London, commented: “82 Mount Street is REDD’s first multi-unit boutique residential scheme in London and the first ‘Covid compliant’ development to get planning consent in Mayfair since the UK lockdown ended, so we anticipate a lot of interest in the project.

“REDD are delighted to have achieved consent for this landmark Mayfair development, which is the result of us working closely with Grosvenor and Westminster City Council to develop a design that will reinvigorate this important building, whilst still respecting the heritage context’.

“The proposals will see the retail offering of Mount Street extended further west towards Park Lane, and the creation of Mayfair’s best dressed pied-à-terre’s which are designed to offer the highest standards of luxury, alongside health and safety, in our new COVID-19 world.”