Liverpool Street station: Tower block plans are 'frightening' and 'blatant greenwashing' says Griff Rhys Jones
Plans to build a 16-storey tower block on top of Liverpool Street station have been described by actor and campaigner Griff Rhys Jones as “frightening” and “greenwashing of the most blatant kind”.
Sellar, the developer responsible for the Shard at London Bridge and the Cube beside Paddington station, wants to erect a modern office block on top of the Victorian mainline station and the Grade II*-listed former Greater Eastern Hotel, now the Andaz hotel.
Network Rail, which owns Liverpool Street station, supports the plans as they would fund new lifts and escalators in the station concourse, which it claims suffers from overcrowding at peak times.
But conservation groups have joined forces to mount a legal challenge against the proposal, with hundreds of people attending a campaign meeting on Tuesday night.
Mr Rhys Jones, president of
