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To stay within London's Green Belt and the area's strict planning guidelines, all of the more than 200 guestrooms are underground and grouped around landscaped courtyards. It's topped with a living green roof that merges with the surrounding golf course landscape.

"The design fulfils the requirements of the brief for a bespoke five star hotel while returning hard standing to the Green Belt and improving the physical layout and visual attraction of the entire site," said Matthew Guy, ReardonSmith's project designer. "It represents a commercially viable solution to developing in the Green Belt and is, we believe, a world-first."

Two underground levels will house three sets of guestrooms, each built around 800sqm garden courtyards to make use of daylight. Public spaces will be contained within a single level.

Both the hotel and spa have are designed to minimise their carbon footprint by using combined heat and power generation, heat exchangers and ground source heat pumps together with grey water recycling and rain water harvesting.