SAVE submits strong objection to new plans for Liverpool Street Station

A proposed tower block threatens to destroy Liverpool Street Station as we know and love it – but there is still time for public comments.

SAVE Britain’s Heritage, as part of the Liverpool Street Station Coalition (LISSCA), has submitted strong objections to Network Rail’s new plans for Liverpool Street Station, highlighting serious and wide-ranging concerns. 

SAVE has responded to the latest plans, designed by Acme architects, with a detailed objection to the proposed 97m (19-storey) tower block that would be built over the station’s carefully designed 20th-century concourse, thus bulldozing the cathedral-like station concourse roof and blocking the natural light that currently fills the space. An office block of this vast scale would overwhelm the adjacent grade II* Great Eastern Hotel and dramatically harm the conservation area in which it sits. 

Network Rail state that building a speculative office block over the station is necessary to fund the proposed station upgrades and accessibility, including additional lifts and escalators. With no evidence that alternatives to destructive over-station development have been fully considered – such as different funding models or alternative sites for development – the high level of demolition and the impact on irreplaceable buildings and the surrounding conservation area has not be justified. 

It’s not too late to submit your comments to the City of London before the deadline of 4th July 2025. Email the City of London planning authority at PLNComments@cityoflondon.gov.uk including planning application reference 25/00494/FULEIA.

The Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA), led by the Victorian Society, comprises SAVE Britain’s Heritage, The Twentieth Century Society, Historic Buildings & Places, The Council for British Archaeology, the Georgian Group, the Spitalfields Trust, Civic Voice, London Historians, the Betjeman Society, London & Middlesex Archaeological Society and original campaigners from the 1970s who prevented all the station buildings being demolished.

Letter of objection from Civic Voice