I’m in London less frequently these days. When I am it’s hard to deny myself the occasional “it’s all changed round here”. It happened last week as I walked through More London to a meeting at City Hall. I enjoy seeing significant changes to the landscape of the city I love – the gradual unveiling of the new London Bridge Station is exciting – but not this time.

I don’t like More London much anyway – for me it’s the worst kind of corporately managed space that makes Londoners feel like they don’t own the city where they live – but I was so horribly upset to see that the lovely water feature that used to run down the length of the main boulevard there has been filled in.

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