I have just been to a presentation of John McAslan’s beautifully simple and elegant solution to the development of Liverpool Street Station: by hoisting an arched structure over the middle of the train sheds to supply the volume of office space required to pay for the necessary upgrade and modernisation of the station. 

60% of the office space supplied by the current Network Rail proposal, but for 40% of the cost.  So, more affordable.  And, more importantly for the 80 million people who use Liverpool Street Station, avoiding the 10 years of disruption which the current scheme will require.

So, my only question is: had members of the City’s planning department been invited ?

If not, they should have been.