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In response, the chair of the UK’s Climate Change Committee, John Gummer, has called for new climate-focused planning laws. The £240 million Salisbury

The plans for Fleet Street are an ugly, anti-democratic insult to London The latest move by an overweening council is symptomatic of the desire to turn our capital into Singapore-on-Thames. Enough is enough 3 June 2021 • 5:00am The view east along Fleet Street in 1925; the Telegraph building (and clock) is visible on the left Credit: Bridgeman From its position on the way to St Paul’s Cathedral, Fleet Street has become one of the most famous views in the world. Having become a route for processions going from Westminster to the City during the Middle Ages, it retains a flamboyant air from...

26 April 2021 Plans for a new courts complex in the heart of legal London ran into trouble last week when SAVE Britain’s Heritage and other conservation groups lodged formal objections to the demolition of what they say are historic buildings in the Fleet Street Conservation Area. The planned 18-court complex, which will also house the City of London Police HQ, will require the development of Salisbury Square to the south of Fleet Street. Opponents described as ‘crass and short-sighted’ the proposal to demolish Chronicle House (pictured), along with a neo-Baroque bank building, a Georgi...

Source: DBox Source: DBox Fleet Street looking west. The first building on the left is an existing building that is not part of the scheme. Opposite is the art deco Daily Express building Source: DBox Source: DBox Eric Parry Architects’ proposals for a £170m judicial complex in the City of London were approved today. The City Corporation’s planning committee approved the scheme despite uproar over the proposed loss of historic buildings including cherished facades on Fleet Street, London’s famous newspaper district. The development, which will replace an entire city block in a conserva...