En route to the Bankside Gallery, I walked across Waterloo Bridge. ‘Earth has not anything to show more fair’ (wrong bridge, I know). But look how it has been transformed. The Palace of Westminster dwarfed by the towers of Vauxhall:-
The Festival Hall dwarfed by a forest of new tower blocks:-
The Shard dwarfed by the new bulbous monster south of Blackfriars Bridge:-
St. Paul’s – poor St. Paul’s – lost in a forest of tower blocks:-
Whatever happened to town planning ?
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Not Wordsworth’s Bridge, but still a remarkable panorama on all sides. in which St. Paul’s more than holds its own.
It this not the inevitable concomitant of non-stop (yet unsustainable) ‘growth’?Let’s hope at least an element of former Chancellor George Osborne’s predictions of post-Brexit slowdown turn out to have had an (accidental) element of truth to them… albeit too late to stop disastrous HS2, Hinkley Point and third runway at Heathrow….