Elizabeth House decision called in for review

A report has threatened to derail plans to sell off Transport for London's Grade I-listed HQ as luxury apartments.

Christian Candy is planning to create one of the biggest resi basement complexes in London under his new family pad, Gordon House in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.

Securing permission for a scheme under 'Gummer's Law', which allows the building of new country houses if - and only if - they are considered to be of ‘exceptional quality or innovative design’, is…