The council’s Marylebone library will move from its temporary home on Beaumont Street into the new purpose-built library building on Luxborough Street when the scheme is completed next year.
The Luxborough Street plans, designed by architects Child Graddon Lewis, also include nine flats, to be built on the three floors above the library. This residential element will help to offset the cost of building the library.
Marylebone Library has been squatting in Beaumont Street since August 2013 as its former home, the Old Marylebone Town Hall, is undergoing a £60m refurbishment under a lease agreement with London Business School.
Westminster cabinet member for the community Steve Summers said: “The new Marylebone library will be a fantastic new facility and will offer the local community more books, more computers and up to 75% more usable library space. I’m delighted the plans have been approved.”
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