Network Rail submitted revised plans to build a 97m tower atop Liverpool Street Station, incorporating a partially Victorian station. The City Corporation logged 3,172 responses: 1,071 supporting and 2,101 opposing. The scheme reportedly faces a £220m funding gap and depends on a commercial property upturn. A carbon report commissioned by LISSCA finds breaches of national and local environmental policies and minimal ambition for low-carbon construction. Proposed demolition of usable station fabric and limited analysis of retrofitting adjacent 50 Liverpool Street raise concerns about wasted resources and likely poor performance against net zero targets.
Simon Sturgis, managing partner of Targeting Zero and a government advisor on sustainability, said the scheme represents a huge and unnecessary waste of resources by proposing extensive demolition of useable station fabric and failing to examine retrofitting options for 50 Liverpool Street the adjacent building that includes the McDonald's restaurant - in any detail. He said it was likely to be commercially redundant on completion, performing poorly against national and local net zero targets.
The report states: This 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.
Henrietta Billings, director of Save, said: It is shocking that a building designed in 2025 should be based on a 1990s rationale. The design and construction industry has made huge strides in the face of the climate emergency and there is no longer any excuse for last-century thinking. We urge the City of
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