Plans to build a new hotel between the Museum of London and the Barbican have been given the green light.
The buildings at 1-8 Long Lane will be combined and developed into a single, nine-storey hotel with 128 rooms, including a 10 per cent provision for disabled access.
It comes as figures by the Greater London Authority’s London Plan found an additional 58,000 bedrooms of serviced accommodation will be needed across the capital by 2041.
The need for visitor accommodation has been reinforced by the City of London Visitor Accommodation Sector Commercial Needs Study, dated January 2023, which identified a demand capacity for an additional 350 rooms per annum in the City of London to…