Thousands have objected to the renovation project.
Plans show a new upper concourse with modern curved ceilings Your morning commute into Liverpool Street station could soon look very different – but not everyone has welcomed the changes. After plans for a revamp of the East London hub were revealed, over 2,100 shared objections on the City of London Corporation’s planning portal. The public, local authorities, Historic England and Westminster City Council all raised concerns about the project, with some branding it ‘ugly and uninspired’.
Liverpool Street currently looks like this, having last been updated in the 1980s It was slammed by Westminster Council for obscuring the view of St Paul’s Cathedral and by Hackney Council for representing ‘substantial harm’ to the neighbouring area. As of March 25, just 29 responses were in favour of the scheme compared to 2,154 objections, including Luke Christodoulou who referred to it as an ‘ugly and uninspired’ design which wasn’t ‘worthy of standing in the place of a historic building.
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