Tall buildings: Housing versus heritage

By Joanna Bassett2019-07-25T05:00:00

In the first of our new series on the legal considerations of constructing tall buildings, Joanna Bassett considers the issues around planning permission

Today’s tall buildings are not the monolithic concrete towers of the 1960s, described by Lynsey Hanley as “slums in the sky”. Instead, 21st-century tall buildings represent regeneration and feats of engineering. For their fans, tall towers present the optimum housing solution as London battles to accommodate its rapidly increasing population at an affordable price, while seeking to enhance and preserve green space.

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