What has got Mayfair's swanky Goring hotel in a tizz? The hotel has written to Westminster council claiming a proposed affordable housing schejne that would overlook its back garden "represents a real threat to the hotel's livelihood". The application constitutes the affordable housing provision of Grosvenor Estate and Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels' redevelopment of nearby 1-5 Grosvenor Place into luxury flats and a Peninsula hotel. The Goring has expressed concerns about overlooking, light pollution, window dressing and noise pollution. Meanwhile, local residents have said they will support the application so long as the property is not used to "house lower standard affordable or social housing occupants," but have questioned why "the affordable housing is not being provided on-site as part of the redevelopment of 1-5 Grosvenor Place".
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