Neighbouring offices are objecting to Fletcher Priest Architects’ proposals to build a 32-storey tower in the Square Mile, complaining it will blight their daylight and damage their occupiers’ health.

The scheme at 55 Gracechurch Street is being developed by Hong Kong firm Tenacity. But documents filed with the City of London reveal several freeholders of nearby offices have drawn up a host of concerns about the scheme and have asked for it to be refused planning.

An email sent by surveyor Delva Patman Redler on behalf of the freeholder owners of 51-54 Gracechurch Street and 8-9 Talbot Court said the pair are objecting to the scheme, which is set to replace an existing eight-storey building built in 1992, because of the tower’s “excessive bulk, height and massing which would create an overbearing relationship with the neighbouring buildings including 51-54 Gracechurch Street and 8-9 Talbot Court”.

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