Studio Moren wins planning permission for boutique Kensington hotel

Hospitality design specialist Studio Moren has won planning permission from the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea for the refurbishment and extension of a boutique hotel at 225-231 Kensington High Street for JMK Group, an innovative, family-run hospitality group.

The scheme will add 30 new guestrooms and include a modest rooftop extension to maximise guest room accommodation. The design reconfigures the existing hotel bedrooms and provides them with high-quality en-suite facilities, as well as improved interior decoration. An existing coffee shop and stationery store will be replaced with a welcoming open lobby for check-in and guest services as well as offering a café, delicatessen and eatery open to guests and members of the public.

Explains Mark Wood, Partner at Studio Moren: "This was a complicated and exciting project, in a conservation area, next to a listed building and in a prominent corner position. Successive alterations over time had significantly altered the character of the existing building; our design approach for this scheme therefore seeks to not only significantly improve the quality and layout of the interior but also to improve the building's character by returning it, where possible, to its original appearance and to further enhance its appearance with modest, sensitive, contemporary new build extensions.

Studio Moren's design updates, repairs and improves the existing ground-floor façade, combining the space into a single recognisable street front. The shop fronts will be restored to their original height with a simple line of awnings continuing around the corner to help create a coherent form.

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