Plans for Covent Garden tube makeover OK'd

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2018-09-11T06:00:00

Work involves refurbishing 1906 station along with adding extra storey of office space

Plans by architect Gort Scott to refurbish Covent Garden tube station and add an extra storey of office space on the development above it have been OK’d by Westminster planners.

The two-storey station, grade II listed and in a conservation area, was designed as a plinth to enable future over-development. Offices were duly added in the 1960s and refurbished in the 1980s.

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