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Is the City set for a new tower boom?

By 2024-06-18T11:32:00

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At least 18 major schemes are planned for a small area around Bishopsgate, including some of the tallest buildings in the capital. But how many will actually get built? Tom Lowe talks to some of the biggest players in the City’s commercial sector about what lies behind the latest cycle ...

Regular readers of Building Design will have noticed the considerable number of news stories about big schemes proposed in the City of London over the past year or two. It has seemed as though a shiny new tower or high-end refurbishment has been unveiled by developers or approved by councillors almost every week. Planning applications to the City of London Corporation were up 25% year on year at the end of 2023, and the pace only seems to be increasing. 

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