Government throws out plans for 305-metre Tulip tower in London

Decision welcomed by Historic England, which said building would have been ‘visually intrusive’ and ‘highly incongruous’

Controversial plans to build a 305-metre high tower in the City of London have been thrown out by the government.

The surprise decision, announced by the Department for Levelling up, Housing and Communities, ends a long-running saga of contradictory decisions on the fate of the planned tourist attraction – designed by Foster + Partners and called the Tulip – at 20 Bury Street in London’s financial district.

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