Network Rail and Acme plans showing Liverpool Street entrance. Visualisation: Acme and Network Rail.
The City of London Corporation Planning Committee will soon formally consider Network Rail and Acme’s destructive plans for Liverpool Street Station, which induced 2147 resounding objections from members of the public, heritage and civic organisations.
Architects John McAslan + Partners put forward an alternative plan for Liverpool Street Station last year, which demonstrated what many concerned observers had considered inevitable: that Network Rail’s plan for a hulking office block built in and on top of the historic station, requiring extensive demolition and loss of historic fabric, was unnecessary and completely unjustified.
Last year we helped to highlight the shocking environmental inadequacies of the scheme, one element of which was the remarkable fact that the entire glazed envelope of the proposed new office block would require total replacement within thirty years.
In addition, Network Rail’s own assessment is that the scheme is financially unviable.
The Vic Soc’s Director and our President Griff Rhys Jones also raised serious concerns about the tactics employed by a communications agency working for Network Rail during public consultations in 2025.
The case has been put – the City of London Corporation Planning Committee needs to resoundingly refuse Network Rail’s current planning application.
The fundraiser to Save Liverpool Street Station remains open. Griff Rhys Jones, President of the LISSCA Campaign and the Victorian Society, and the LISSCA Committee thank everyone for their continued support.
