Masterplan drawn up by Allies and Morrison includes Regent Street and Haymarket
Westminster city council and the Crown Estate have launched a public consultation on plans to pedestrianise parts of the West End.
Drawn up by architect Allies and Morrison, the scheme covers Regent Street, Haymarket and Piccadilly Circus.
The designs propose reclaiming space from vehicles, reconfiguring crossings, introducing new planting and seating and creating a network of traffic-free and reduced traffic routes across the area.
More than 35,000sq m of public space is included in the proposals, which set out 10 “transformative moves” across key locations.
These include the pedestrianisation of Regent Street St James’s – the southern section of Regent Street below Picadilly Circus – and parts of Coventry Street, a proposed new civic space at Waterloo Place equivalent in scale to Piccadilly Circus and improved public realm connections to Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square and St James’s Park.
The Crown Estate, which owns large parts of the area, said events would take place this month and next. Allies and Morrison won a competition for a masterplan for the area last year.
In its annual results earlier this month, the Crown Estate said its West End real estate portfolio, which includes Regent Street, was valued at £7.1bn, up from £6.9bn last time.
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