Tall buildings policies can do without political hypocrisy How does housing secretary Robert Jenrick square his new-found enthusiasm for toughening up London’s tall buildings policy with his unlawful approval of Richard Desmond’s Westferry Printworks scheme? asks Paul Finch London Mayor Sadiq Khan has modified the draft London Plan to declare that boroughs ought to identify sites where tall buildings would be acceptable, the implication being that they would not be acceptable anywhere else. This follows an intervention by secretary of state Robert Jenrick to toughen up what, suddenly, are regarded as rules that are far too loose. Advertisement