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Robert de Niro bringing boutique hotel to Covent Garden after planning approval

Hollywood legend Robert de Niro, along with development partners Capital & Counties Properties and US firm BD Hotels, is to open a new hotel in Covent Garden after obtaining planning approval from Westminster City Council.

The Wellington hotel, which is the brainchild of De Niro and fellow hoteliers Ira Drukier and Richard Born, is the trio’s first boutique hotel outside of the US after finding success with The Greenwich in New York’s fashionable Tribeca district.

Plans were approved last night for an 83 room development which will see six buildings, three of which are Grade II listed, merged into one hotel with the buildings’ current facades maintained.

The proposed hotel, which is due to begin construction in 2017 ahead of a 2019 opening, also include two restaurants, a member’s club and spa facilities at the complex which will sit near the London Transport Museum.

Commenting at the time of the initial planning application back in May, De Niro said: “London is one of the most exciting and cosmopolitan cities in the world. It makes perfect sense to develop a hotel that represents all of that in the heart of this city in Covent Garden.

“The Wellington Hotel would honour the heritage of the area, while bringing the best of what we’ve done in New York to London.”

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