Homes and offices will be directly opposite flagship Whiteley development in Bayswater

Foster & Partners has been given the go-ahead to replace a run of 1950s shops and flats in west London with two seven-storey buildings featuring a mix of shops, offices and new homes.

The practice’s Queensway Parade scheme in Bayswater will be directly opposite its ongoing £1bn redevelopment of the grade II-listed former Whiteley’s department store, which Laing O’Rourke is turning into a residential and hotel scheme.

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Source: Foster & Partners

Foster & Partners’ proposals for Queensway Parade, opposite the former Whiteley’s department store in Bayswater, west London

Queensway Parade, for client MB (QW) Guernsey Ltd, will deliver a 10,978 sq m office building on the southernmost part of the site, at the junction of Queensway and Porchester Gardens.

Immediately north will be a residential block featuring 32 homes, 35% of which are earmarked to be “affordable”. There are currently 27 flats on the site.

The scheme will also provide 11 new shops, but total floorspace for retail and restaurant use will fall by more than one-third to 2,216 sq m under the plans.

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