ITV London Studios Demolition, Mitsubishi South Bank Proposal, Television Centre Site Redevelopment, Architecture
London Television Centre Site Redevelopment, South Bank
3 December 2021
Building Back Worse ? On London?s South Bank!
Design: Make Architects
Location: former London Television Centre site, 72 Upper Ground, South Bank, central London, UK
The government?s Building Back Beautiful agenda is about to be tested
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image courtesy of Coin Street Community Builders
Building Back Worse ? On London?s South Bank!
The government?s Building Back Beautiful agenda is about to be tested by a massive building proposed for one of the UK?s most visited areas. Proposals by Mitsubishi to demolish ITV?s London Studios and replace them with a mountain of office blocks more than double their size have drawn furious criticism from local community organisations and wider interests.
Historic England, the Twentieth Century Society, and many others have raised concerns about views of St Paul?s Cathedral and impacts on Somerset House, the National Theatre and other listed buildings. Now local organisations are also raising concerns about impacts on daylight, sunlight, and the whole character of the South Bank.
Iain Tuckett, Coin Street Community Builders, says; ?The scale, bulk and siting of the proposed development is excessive, overbearing and overly dominant. The impacts on daylight received by adjacent Coin Street housing ...