{"id":184752,"date":"2025-10-08T05:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184752\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T05:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:48:07","slug":"city-of-london-approves-plans-for-new-square-mile-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/184752\/","title":{"rendered":"City of London approves plans for new Square Mile skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new glass and steel building will neighbour the &#8220;Walkie Talkie&#8221;,  Scalpel and Leadenhall &#8220;Cheese Grater&#8221; skyscrapers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The proposed development will include new food and drink spots, and a pedestrian route connecting Cullum Street to Fen Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An external garden terrace located on the 17th floor of the building will be accessible to the public and is designed to provide green space and panoramic views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A public rooftop gallery will also be based on the 20th floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Littman, head of development at Aviva Investors, one of the developers behind the tower, said it was a &#8220;bold and thoughtful scheme that will bring a long-vacant site back into positive use. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It reflects the best of what the City can offer; ambition, culture, sustainability and inclusivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new glass and steel building will neighbour the &#8220;Walkie Talkie&#8221;, Scalpel and Leadenhall &#8220;Cheese Grater&#8221; skyscrapers. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-184752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}