Welcome to the consultation website for Dominus Real Estate’s proposals for 5-10 Great Tower Street
Rejuvenating 5-10 Great Tower Street as a new luxury boutique hotel for the City of London
Dominus Real Estate is proposing to rejuvenate 5-10 Great Tower Street to ensure it contributes positively to the City of London. Our plans will breathe new life into the building, creating a new boutique luxury hotel to support the Destination City Initiative. As part of our commitment to early community engagement, we want to hear your perspectives to shape the development of our plans.
About Dominus
From modest origins decades ago, we’ve grown into one of the UK’s most dynamic family-owned business groups, including specialising in industry- leading hotels and student accommodation to awardwinning residential properties, regeneration projects and mixed-use schemes.
We are an award-winning, forward-thinking
UK real estate owner, developer and investor, fundamentally committed to a better built environment. We build social value by enhancing the world around us, taking meaningful, tangible action in communities.
Working in collaboration nationwide, we make
a daily difference at street level, with innovative partnerships and a progressive, long-term view of the future.
Dominus currently operate five hotels under internationally recognised brands.
LOST PROPERTY, ST PAUL’S
A Curio collection by Hilton – 3-5 Ludgate Hill, London
LONDON CITY
Hampton by Hilton- 12-20 Osborn Street, London
OXFORD
Courtyard by Marriott – 15
Paradise Street, Oxford
BATH CITY
Hampton by Hilton – Milk Street, Bath
THE DIXON, TOWER BRIDGE
An Autograph collection by
Marriott – 211 Tooley Street, London
The Site
5-10 Great Tower Street is an office building bounded by Great Tower Street, St Dunstan’s Hill and St Dunstan’s Alley. The Site is not located within a Conservation Area. It benefits from excellent links, being within easy walking distance of 8 key London stations.
The building was originally built in the early 1950s, and over the years, it has undergone various interior renovations. Despite being in a prominent location the building is currently largely vacant. The quality of internal space is no longer to the standard that is required for modern commercial occupiers. Significant investment is now needed to bring the building back to beneficial use.
In addition to this, the site sits within a short walking distance to exciting cultural offers including the Monument, Tower of London and St Dunstan in the East Church Garden.
Our vision
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Rejuvenating a tired and largely vacant building to become a new boutique luxury hotel with its own unique design and identity
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Upgrading the building’s upper floors through a high-quality extension that appropriately responds to heritage assets, townscape considerations and neighbourly relationships
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Taking a sustainable design approach - retaining and upgrading the existing building with an extension at roof level
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Creating street-level activation along the key Great Tower Street and St Dunstan’s Hill frontages and publicly accessible ground-floor spaces that are shared between guests and visitors
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Improving the setting of the St Dunstan in the East Church Garden as a place for quiet contemplation and key life moments
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Generating social and economic benefits for the local community and the City through a hotel that will be a place to meet and a destination its own right
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Supporting the Destination City initiative by helping to ensure “that the city is the world’s most innovative, inclusive, and sustainable business ecosystem as well as an attractive place to invest, work, live, learn, and visit”
Our Proposals
Delivering a new boutique luxury hotel with a unique identity and publicly accessible areas
Incorporating a sensitive extension to accommodate the change of use
A sustainable design which takes a retrofit-first approach to regenerate the existing building
Creating a new active frontage along Great Tower Street, St Dunstan’s Hill and St Dunstan’s Alley
Upgrading plant and servicing areas to deliver a building with enhanced energy performance
Creating a destination in its own right with a Monday to Sunday story, and working with the City of London to provide new opportunities for the Destination City programme
Our Hotel
Our new boutique luxury hotel will have a unique design and identity, with roots that trace back to the steeped history of the local area. It will have a range of publicly accessible ground-floor spaces that are shared between guests and visitors. These will include food and beverage outlets, including a bar, restaurant and a café, and a lobby designed for people to collaborate, gather and feel at home.
For guests, the concept will be centred around helping our guests succeed in their visit to the city. There will be spaces for focused work and meetings, as well as for rest and play. All guests will be given access to a bespoke concierge-style app we are developing. This will serve as a personalised portal to the best cultural activities the City and London has to offer. The hotel will have a range of room types, including suites at the highest levels of the building with extraordinary views of the Shard set in front of the Thames on one side, with unique perspectives of the City of London’s Tower Cluster on the other side.
Our Design Approach
Our proposals will deliver a high-quality extension that appropriately responds to heritage assets, townscape considerations and neighbourly relationships. The extension will introduce a new architectural language that draws references from the neighbouring buildings. The revised massing will bring new life into the building and make the upper levels more efficient, while preserving the essence of the original design and increasing its sustainability and energy efficiency.
Step 01
The existing building provides the opportunity to retain the existing substructure, facade and core locations. It is from this solid foundation that the design proposals have been developed to reuse and refurbish the building.
Step 02
The existing level 7th to 9th currently step back. The first step to reinvigorate 5-10 Great Tower St is to replace these levels to maximise the floor efficiency and make the most of the opportunity available.
Step 03
One additional storey has been added to the building. The proposed massing and height of the scheme have been informed in relation to the site context and its historic surroundings.
Our approach
This design sits comfortably within the historic environment surrounding the site. It creates a contemporary mansard
roof with vertical dormer windows that introduce more verticality to the whole development.
Sustainability
Retaining and upgrading the existing building with an extension at roof level
Incorporating Low / Zero Carbon technologies to reduce CO2 emissions including Air Source Heat Pump
Targeting BREEAM Excellent for both the Refurbishment and the Extension
Addressing and reducing embodied carbon through re-using materials on-site including reclaimed brick
Delivering an energy efficient strategy including photovoltaic panels on the roof
Enhancing biodiversity through a wildflower green roof
A Meeting Place
The proposals will create street-level activation along the key Great Tower Street and St Dunstan’s Hill frontages and publicly accessible ground-floor spaces that are shared between guests and visitors. Our ambition is to work with the City of London to deliver a new boutique luxury hotel that creates a unique destination in its own right and will bring new opportunities for the Destination City programme. This will create a leading City destination for workers, residents and UK and international visitors to enjoy.
Our hotel will have a range of publicly accessible ground-floor spaces that are shared between guests and visitors. These will include food and beverage outlets, including a bar, restaurant
and a café, and a lobby designed for people to collaborate, gather and feel at home. The ground floor uses wrap around the Site, activating all three frontages.
Destination City
Our ambition is to work with the City of London to deliver a new boutique luxury hotel that creates a unique destination in its own right and will bring new opportunities for the Destination City programme.
The Destination City vision is for the City of London to be one of the most vibrant and exciting places in the world, with a truly diverse economic, social and cultural offering.
By providing a quality hotel in this critical location within short walking distance of Monument and the Tower of London, and enhancing connectivity to St Dunstans in the East, our proposals will bring new visitors to the City and connect them to key City of London sites.
Proposed Views
We want to hear from you
As part of our commitment to early community engagement, we want to hear your feedback to shape the development of our plans.
Public Drop-In Event
- Monday 16th October,
- 11:30am – 3:30pm
- St Mary-at-Hill Church, Lovat Lane, EC3R 8EE
Online Survey
Complete our survey to share your experience of the area and help shape our plans
5-10 Great Tower Street
Rejuvenating 5-10 Great Tower Street as a new luxury boutique hotel for the City of London
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