Engaging Residents, Office Workers

and Visitors

 

The proposed development acknowledges and retains the urban grain of Covent Garden: creating a contextual response and an appropriate mix of office, private and affordable housing and retail spaces with active frontages along the perimeter of the site.

 

The mixed-use development will provide:

 

- An office building (ground plus seven-storey) fronting Long Acre. The entrance is anchored on both sides by large retail shops;

- A residential building (ground plus eleven-storey) facing the quieter Shelton Street and Arne Street and including approximately 100 apartments, ranging from studios to one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units;

 

The proposal includes an element of ‘Intermediate’ housing or affordable home ownership options;

 

The entrance lobby, located at the intersection of the L-shaped residential building, overlooks the courtyard;

 

- An Urban Pocket Space, a 16-metre wide publicly accessible courtyard off Endell Street, leads to the entrance of the residential building and includes a dedicated playspace;

 

- Retail space on all four aspects of the site at ground-level: larger units as proposed along Long Acre front the international retail destination of Covent Garden while smaller single-level shops respond to the scale and character of neighbouring buildings.