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We’ve looked very carefully at height and how to strike the right balance – providing as many affordable and other homes as possible alongside new facilities while respecting the area’s character something that’s very important to us. We support the affordable housing and the open market homes but there are other Grosvenor owned sites nearby that would be much better suited to the senior living accommodation.’Ī spokesman for Grosvenor is quoted in the Sunday Telegraph as stating: ‘Our proposals can transform a closed-off private site with outdated affordable housing into a handsome, low carbon neighbourhood. It’s all about the bottom line and how much they can grab. The Society’s trustee, solicitor Mary Regnier-Leigh, challenged the ‘giant spread of old peoples’ accommodation for, one assumes, rich old people who would like to live in Belgravia’, adding: ‘For Grosvenor to do this is unbelievable when they are supposed to be the custodians of the most important regency architecture anywhere in the country.

Yet critics have pointed out that the redevelopment will only add 12 more dwellings to the number that’s currently on the site. Further provision for the site includes a planned 93 affordable homes, 44 for social rent and 70 for the open market. There are concerns that a large proportion of the new buildings, 200,000 square feet, has been designated ‘specialist senior living accommodation’ for 170 people. The Belgravia ‘astro flats’ coldsnowstorm / Getty Images