If you’re a regular user of Bond Street station, you’ll be familiar with the tired-looking 1970s building that sits above it. With shops lining the ground floor and office space above, the building is in major need of modernisation. Over the next three years, it’ll finally get a facelift.
Plans for West One were given the green light by Westminster City Council in 2024 and last week McLaren Construction was chosen to deliver the project alongside property developers British Land.
Once the £99 million scheme is complete there will be a total of 94,000 sq ft of office space across seven storeys. It also promises new terraces and landscaped areas, improved retail frontages and pedestrian experience at street level and better connections between Davies Street and Stratford Place.
The development will almost doubling the existing office space above the shops and station by adding three new floors. The current building’s top four storeys will be demolished and its first and ground floor levels will be partly removed. The facades of the 1970s building will also be partly stripped back.
It doesn’t look like the construction work will cause too much disruption to the shops or to services on the Central, Jubilee and Elizabeth lines – they’ll all stay up and running throughout. Preparatory work is already underway and the whole scheme is expected to be finished by the first quarter of 2029.
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