{"id":22242,"date":"2019-04-05T18:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=22242"},"modified":"2023-11-14T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:22:17","slug":"tulip-london-skyscraper-gets-green-light-with-help-from-classroom-in-sky-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=22242","title":{"rendered":"Tulip London skyscraper gets green light with help from &#8216;classroom in sky&#8217; feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The proposed Tulip skyscraper got the planning \u2018green light\u2019, with the <em>Standard<\/em> offering its own take on issues in advance of the decision.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The Evening Standard<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>A report from the City Corporation\u2019s chief planning officer Annie Hampson said the 1,000ft tower would give\u00a0 London \u2018a new iconic building\u2019. The planning application for the Sir Norman Foster-designed structure next to the Gherkin is now due to go before the Corporation\u2019s planning committee on Tuesday for a formal decision.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s report said the case for the building \u2014 shaped like a bud on a 787ft stalk \u2014 was \u2018very finely balanced\u2019 because of legitimate concerns about the impact it will have on protected views of the Tower of London. However, it concluded that the damage to the setting of the World Heritage site would be \u2018less than substantial\u2019 and more than offset by a boost to tourism and a \u2018classroom in the sky\u2019 education centre that will be made available to 40,000 state school pupils every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Tulip will have double-decker lifts and glass pods that will rotate on tracks built into the outside, as well as a bar, restaurants and a viewing platform. The report lists a number of objections and concerns. Sixteen people said it was \u2018a poor and unattractive design which adds to the visual clutter of the London skyline (including the phallic nature of the building)\u2019. If the planning committee approves the scheme, Mayor Sadiq Khan will have two weeks to decide whether to call it in and potentially overturn the decision. Construction could begin as early as next year, with an opening in 2025. A spokesman for the project said: \u2018The Tulip Project welcomes the decision by the City of London\u2019s planning officers to recommend resolution to grant planning permission\u2026.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/tulip-london-skyscraper-set-for-green-light-thanks-to-classroom-in-sky-feature-a4101031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed Tulip skyscraper got the planning \u2018green light\u2019, with the Standard offering its own take on issues in advance of the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38220,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242\/revisions\/38220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}