City of London decision-makers are being advised to approve Acme Architects’ proposals to boost the height of an office development earmarked for a site opposite Aldgate Station.

The practice originally won a resolution to grant planning permission for its 60 Aldgate building in December 2020, but further revisions to the scheme would deliver almost 5,000sq m of additional office space and extra storeys.

Members of the City’s planning and transportation committee are being urged to approve the revised proposals for the scheme, which will also see the demolition of historic local pub the Still & Star – and its replacement with a larger copy of the building on part of the site fronting Aldgate High Street. That element of the scheme was previously described as “a homage” to the original “slum pub”.

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