I think it was probably inevitable that Gove would approve the plans for London Wall West.  We are at the tail end of an administration which has unshackled planning controls in the City.  They don’t believe in the environment.  They hate conservation.  They think unrestricted growth is the answer.

It will be interesting to see what this project looks like in practice, once built, smothered as the images of it are in Utopian (or dystopian) computer graphics.

I feel at least as sad for the effect it will have on the Barbican as for the loss of the old Museum of London.