Westminster council has flagged up its success at repeatedly preventing the addition of new floors to an existing tower block as part of a round-up of results from its 2018-19 planning wrangles.

The council’s record in defending its planning decisions at appeal over the past 12 months is highlighted in a report to a meeting of the authority’s planning and city development committee this week.

Among the featured cases is the authority’s refusal of recent proposals by Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects for the upward extension of 13-storey Landward Court, in Harrowby Street – near Edgware Road.

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