Deloitte Real Estate’s planning team will help to create a unified landscape setting for the museum’s Grade I-listed Waterhouse Building.
The project will include a new civic square, shops and a life-size model of ‘Dippy’ the diplodocus.
Adam Donovan, assistant director at Deloitte Real Estate, said: “This planning permission represents two years of close consultation with [the] Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, local residents and a range of stakeholders.
“The innovative scheme provides a comprehensive landscape masterplan for the museum while providing a sensitive setting for the Grade I-listed Waterhouse Building.”
The museum will also install a new step-free entrance from the South Kensington tube station tunnel and remodel the grounds with new paths, ponds and meadows.
Deloitte coordinated the planning applications and listed building consent for the project.
The proposals were developed by Niall McLaughlin Architects and Kim Wilkie Landscape Architects over a two-year period.
Leave a comment