Balfour Beatty completed work on first plot in 2016
Make Architects has been given planning for the second phase of the Crown Estate’s St James’s Market redevelopment in central London.
The Crown Estate, which will formally welcome former Lendlease chief executive Dan Labbad as its new boss at the beginning of next year, is developing the scheme with Oxford Properties.
Ahead of Westminster council giving the green light to the plans last night, planning officers said Make’s proposals fitted in well with its £87m first phase, which was completed by Balfour Beatty in 2016.
This saw Balfour build 260,000 sq ft of commercial and retail space across two eight-storey blocks between Regent Street and Haymarket.
Others to work on the first phase included Aecom, Gardiner & Theobald and Waterman Structures.
The latest phase (pictured) will involve demolishing a cluster of buildings to the west of Haymarket for redevelopment as a single structure that would wrap around the grade II-listed Carlton Theatre.
Two existing buildings, put up in the 1960s and 70s, will be torn down to make way for the Make scheme.
An early 20th-century building, Greener House, and a neighbouring building would see only their façades retained while the Carlton Theatre – designed by Frank Verity and Sam Beverley in 1927 and currently in use as a cinema – would be restored.
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