{"id":1189304,"date":"2026-09-06T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189304\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:22:18","slug":"historic-england-urges-city-plan-tweak-to-protect-tower-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1189304\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic England urges city plan tweak to protect Tower of London"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tower of London is “at risk” of being added to UNESCO’s list of<\/b> World Heritage in Danger<\/b>, external<\/a> sites unless amendments are made to the City of London Corporation’s draft local plan, experts have said.<\/b><\/p>\n

Historic England, a government advisory body, said there was “serious concern” about the famous citadel due to the size of potential future skyscrapers in the east of the Square Mile.<\/p>\n

It is seeking changes to the Corporation’s draft City Plan 2040 over where new developments may be permitted near the Tower.<\/p>\n

The Corporation has said the suggestion from Historic England would affect economic growth and make little difference to heritage protection.<\/p>\n

The draft City Plan 2040 has been worked on for years. The Corporation has consistently said that more office space was needed to meet demand, and set a minimum target of an additional 1.2m sq ft by 2040.<\/p>\n

In June housing minister Matthew Pennycook directed inspectors to halt the report’s publication to consider Historic England’s suggestion <\/a>and to arrange further hearings to scrutinise the impacts on the Tower of London.<\/p>\n

In a written statement, Historic England said its proposed changes would not prevent the City from achieving its office floorspace requirement.<\/p>\n

The organisation argued that its position was “justified” and “the minimum response necessary” to protect the World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tower of London is “at risk” of being added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage in Danger,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":["post-1189304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117223133187339356","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}