London-based real estate developer and investor Dominvs Group has secured planning permission for a two-hotel scheme in the Nine Elms area of London, close to the US Embassy.
The scheme is targeting BREEAM Excellent certification and will deliver two hotels run by different operators but joined by a common basement facility.
The north hotel is intended to provide a midscale offer and will be 11 storeys with 360 rooms, and the south hotel will be an affordable luxury offering totalling 15 storeys with 477 rooms, as well as a publicly accessible ground floor café and rooftop restaurant and bar with views towards the River Thames.
Dominvs secured unanimous consent from Wandsworth Council’s planning committee, having previously been given the go ahead for two hotels at the site, but subsequently submitting a revised scheme that reduces the massing and height.
The 0.38-hectare brownfield site sits within the Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Battersea (VNEB) Opportunity Area, a 195-hectare area featured in the London Plan (2004) for regeneration through mixed-use development, infrastructural upgrades and an influx of employment opportunities worth £15 billion.
The scheme has been supported by the Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce which has calculated that the hotels would contribute between £8.2 million and £13 million to the local economy through guest spending while increasing job opportunities for local residents.
The hotels are on the site of the former Victorian pleasure grounds at Nine Elms.
What they said
Jay Ahluwalia, principal at Dominvs Group, said: “Following a change in market conditions, we submitted revised proposals for two high-quality hotels, which will make a significant contribution to satisfying the need for the additional 2,230 hotel rooms that the London Plan has identified. This scheme is a testament to our team’s in-depth knowledge of local markets, and the ability to remain agile to maximise the value created for the two pan-European tenants who will lease the hotels in a further boost to the capital’s thriving hospitality sector.”