Developers have been given the go-ahead on a massive £250 million development to transform 2 acres of derelict buildings close to Leicester Square to relieve pressure on Covent Garden and create a new eating and shopping area.
The site will lie between London Acre and Upper St Martins Lane and Mercer Street. The development will include offices, restaurants and around 20 flats around a piazza four times the size of Neal Yards (around the corner).
This will create hundreds of London construction jobs in the short term and many long terms retail and catering jobs across the West End.