King’s College plans Bush House refurb

King’s College London has launched a refurbishment of Bush House, 30 Aldwych, WC2. The college has lodged plans with City of Westminster Council for a refurbishment in the building’s 103,700 sq ft South West Wing as well as change of use from offices to offices and retail on the ground floor and offices and educational space across the first to ninth floors. A statement from DP9 said the refurbishment would give the university “a mix of teaching and office spaces, standalone teaching spaces as well as office space”. Bush House was designed by American architect Harvey Wiley Corbett and was completed in 1935. Once home to the BBC World Service, it was later occupied by HMRC, which left in July 2021. Derwent, which owned the freehold to the site, acquired the headlease in August 2021 and said it would launch a refurbishment, but then sold the site for £85m earlier this year. To send feedback, e-mail tim.burke@eg.co.uk or tweet @_tim_burke or @EGPropertyNews Photo by Michael Szonyi/Imagebroker/Shutterstock (5025373a)