Best of 2021 coverage: Tulip gets cut down

2021-12-28T06:00:00

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Source: Dbox

All the coverage from one of the year’s biggest planning sagas

Last month, Michael Gove agreed with a planning inspector that the Foster & Partners-designed Tulip should not be built.

There were concerns over its sustainability and whether a glut of viewing platforms at other towers already up and running in the City as well as those planned as for yet unbuilt schemes would leave it a white elephant.

The decision marked the end of a process which has gone on for the past few years. The pattern was predictable: City approves, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan turns it down and it’s left to a planning inspector to decided.

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