Westminster City Council has granted planning approval for a new 190-bedroom hotel at Hyde Park Corner in central London. It will be known as The Peninsula London and it will replace the existing 1950s and 1960s offices currently on the site.

The Peninsula London will include an eighth floor rooftop restaurant, a ballroom for up to 350 guests, a spa plus conference and banqueting space. It will also include a 30sq-mt internal ‘Palazzo-style’ courtyard. Construction is expected to start summer 2017 with completion scheduled for 2021.

The Peninsula London will be a sister hotel of the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong. It will be the third of Asia’s luxury hotel brands to open in London, following the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in Knightsbridge in 2000 and the Shangri-La in The Shard last year.

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