It is true that tall buildings have surged massively in the past decade or so and at the same time the housing crisis has catastrophically deepened... yet will a public poll on every tower really make any difference? 🏙️architectsjournal.co.uk/news/thinktank…

City of London Chris Skidmore Even Lizz Truss would wince at this level of hutzpah given the City of London's 'position' is that there is no climate emergency!

BarbicanQuarterAction The Guardian Adding this / from the archive:

The amount of construction waste in the #CityOfLondon alone is distressing & apparently very little is being done to reduce it. And we’re just talking about *skips* here !

Then there’s all the demolition-related waste ..

'a decision that is completely incompatible with their own new sustainability policy'
Secretary of State intervenes in London Wall West site - The Twentieth Century Society c20society.org.uk/news/secretary…

Hope Michael Gove is paying heed to pleas to call-in plans to demolish historic architecture & cultural space and replace with massive tower blocks. No active listening to the community. No understanding of short-term carbon impact. Charles Saumarez Smith The Critic BarbicanQuarterAction

A London Inheritance Clearly London’s #DataStore /LDNMayor Data is having difficulty locating the #MuseumOfLondon ..

Not surprising really, given that it CLOSED in December 2022
:(
#LondonWallWest

Great week in Cities of London and Westminster:

🌹Manifesto launch Sadiq Khan London Labour
🗳️Listening to residents about hopes for future and voting James Small-Edwards
👮 Joining Hyde Park & Paddington Labour Action Team community policing event and residents
🏢 Supporting BarbicanQuarterAction

And more!

Interesting exchange at CoL's Court of Common Council meeting earlier this week, in which Deputy Marianne Fredericks asks about 'curtailing' of questions following London Wall West meeting. From c. 43 mins. youtube.com/watch?v=ISUMLy…

Please OBJECT and protect Bevis Marks Synagogue

My latest newsletter is on London Wall and a 1955 design book, Modern Office Buildings

📑 Both parties have debuffs, P&M have the COI (until August 2024) and the City dragon has Article 31 (until Gove does something); P&M are armed with a 30 inch beam compass and T square respectively. Give architects big scary tools again

Powell and Moya v. City of London ⚔️

Choose your fighter! 🎮💥

#powellandmoya #bastionhouse #illustration #architecture #イラスト

BREAKING NEWS // Secretary of State issues an Article 31 holding decision on Bastion House & the old Museum of London building - just hours before City of London was due to consider proposals to demolish.

Congratulations to campaigners BarbicanQuarterAction 💥

#Retrofirst #heritage

Update on London Wall West, City of London | Nickie Aiken MP nickieaiken.org.uk/news/update-lo…

This #EarthDay2024 , a positive to celebrate is the expertise and insight that will be shared throughout Cornerstone Climate's training month in May. The detailed programme is out!

We're very excited about it all! Hope you can join us.

How did a plan to develop the site of the Museum of London so rapidly devolve from a shining concert hall into plans for looming, soulless tower blocks Charles Saumarez Smith on the story of London Wall West thecritic.co.uk/a-wilting-wall…

This is very worrying.

We know that Gove is looking at this application & C20 Society now calls on him to commit to taking it on & reviewing it at a public inquiry

BarbicanQuarterAction “Climate emergency is not the position of the city of London”. Do they live in an alternative planet?

Aldersgate Ward City of London BarbicanQuarterAction The chairman Shravan Joshi didn’t allow a debate on merits as a motion was brought forward by Brian Mooney CC and Henry Pollard CC to go to a vote post questions to officers, applicant and objectors. Is this legally allowed? How does City of London get away with this?