The City of London Planning Committee has approved the application to redevelop Liverpool Street Station. This is a deeply disappointing decision.
Historic Buildings & Places has long opposed this scheme as part of the Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA). We believe the proposals would cause substantial harm to one of London’s most important historic termini, including the loss of designated heritage assets and serious damage to the surrounding conservation area, while delivering limited benefit to passengers.
Liverpool Street Station has faced existential threat before. In the 1970s, sustained public action secured the survival of the Victorian station buildings and the Great Eastern Hotel. That legacy of determined, informed advocacy remains central to LISSCA’s work today.
We now enter the next stage in this process. Alongside our partners, we are carefully reviewing the Committee’s report and considering the options available, including potential intervention by the Mayor of London and, if necessary, the Secretary of State.
Public support for safeguarding the station has been significant and sustained. We remain committed to ensuring that Liverpool Street Station is enhanced in a way that respects its architectural and historic significance, meets access requirements, and serves passengers without unnecessary harm.
The full Liverpool Street Station Campaign statement can be read here.
About the Liverpool Street Station Campaign LISSCA
Historic Buildings & Places is part of the Liverpool Street Station Campaign (LISSCA), a coalition of national amenity societies, heritage bodies, civic organisations and public figures working together to safeguard the future of Liverpool Street Station.
Re-formed in 2023 in response to renewed redevelopment proposals, LISSCA builds on the original 1970s campaign that successfully prevented the station’s total demolition.
Today, the coalition includes Historic Buildings & Places, SAVE Britain’s Heritage, The Twentieth Century Society, The Council for British Archaeology, the Georgian Group, the Spitalfields Trust, Civic Voice, London Historians, the Betjeman Society, the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society and the Victorian Society, alongside individuals involved in the original campaign.
