{"id":4604,"date":"2019-04-02T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2019-04-02T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:32:33","slug":"city-planners-give-green-light-to-the-tulip-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/city-planners-give-green-light-to-the-tulip-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"City planners give green light to \u201cThe Tulip\u201d tower"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of London Corporation has approved a planning application from Foster + Partners for the tallest tower in the Square Mile.<\/p>\n

The team behind the Gherkin plan to build “The Tulip” next door on Bury Street.<\/p>\n

It will have a total height of 305.3 metres – making it the second tallest building in Western Europe after the Shard.<\/p>\n

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The City Corporation\u2019s Planning and Transportation Committee gave the go-ahead by a vote of 18-7.<\/p>\n

The Tulip will include a viewing platform with rotating pods, a restaurant and sky bar, cycle parking and shower facilities, a new pocket park at street level, publicly accessible rooftop terrace, and an entire floor dedicated to education facilities during school hours.<\/p>\n

Planning Committee Chairman, Chris Hayward, said: \u201cAfter a lengthy and robust debate, the committee agreed to approve this truly unique visitor attraction.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of my key objectives as Chairman of the Planning and Transportation Committee has been to enable the continued transformation of the City of London into a place which welcomes members of the public on weekends as during the week.<\/p>\n

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“This building has the potential to play an important role in realising our vision of the Square Mile as a vibrant 24\/7 city.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2FRtKeP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of London Corporation has approved a planning application from Foster + Partners for the tallest tower in the Square Mile. The team behind the Gherkin plan to build “The Tulip” next door on Bury Street. It will have a total height of 305.3 metres – making it the second tallest building in Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}