Conservationists criticized the proposed Liverpool Street station redevelopment as a huge and unnecessary waste of resources and likely to be redundant on completion. Network Rail plans to partially demolish the station and build a multi-storey tower cantilevered above a neighbouring Grade II* listed former hotel. A 22-page embodied carbon assessment found the proposal shows minimal ambition to meet low-carbon construction best practice and concluded the submission demolishes usable fabric without examining retrofitting options. Revised plans reduce the office block, realign the building to avoid the Great Eastern Hotel site, and redesign station entrances. Thousands of public objections and heritage bodies oppose the scheme.
Network Rail Property and ACME The proposed redevelopment of Liverpool Street station is "a huge and unnecessary waste of resources" and is "likely to be redundant on completion", conservationists have said. Network Rail's plans to partially demolish Britain's busiest station and build a multi-storey tower cantilevered above a neighbouring Grade II* listed former hotel were criticised in a report commissioned by Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA).
Network Rail said Liverpool Street "is long overdue the transformation it deserves" and the "current station can't accommodate expected growth'. Bloomberg via Getty Images The 22-page embodied carbon assessment states the proposal "shows minimal ambition or intention to meet current best practice in terms of low carbon construction, or the UK's trajectory to net zero'. Simon Sturgis' report adds that "the submission demolishes useable fabric without examining retrofitting options'.
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