Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan

CS7: Eastern Cluster

To ensure that the Eastern Cluster can accommodate a significant growth in office floorspace and employment, while balancing the accommodation of tall buildings, transport, public realm and security and spread the benefits to the surrounding areas of the City, by:

  1. Increasing the provision of sustainable, energy-efficient, attractive, high quality office floorspace in a range of accommodation types, that meet the varied needs of office occupiers and achieve modernisation of office stock.
  2. Promoting the Eastern Cluster as a location for inward investment, providing assistance to potential developers, investors and occupiers.
  3. Delivering tall buildings on appropriate sites that enhance the overall appearance of the cluster on the skyline, and the relationship with the space around them at ground level, while adhering to the principles of sustainable design, conservation of heritage assets and their settings and taking account of their effect on the wider London skyline and protected views.
  4. Ensuring the safety of businesses, workers, residents and visitors, promoting natural surveillance of buildings, open spaces and streets and protecting against crime and terrorism.
  5. Enhancing streets, spaces, and the public realm for pedestrians, providing new open and public spaces where feasible, increasing connectivity with surrounding areas and improving access to facilities and services, particularly in the Cheapside and Aldgate areas and towards the City Fringe.
  6. Ensuring the provision of high quality utilities (including CCHP where feasible) and communications infrastructure, encouraging early engagement and joint working between developers and utility providers and maximising the space under the streets, particularly through the use of pipe subways.
  7. Delivering improvements to public transport to cope with the demands of the growing numbers of workers and visitors, implementing street and traffic management measures and ensuring that improvements do not compromise the quality of the environment.

For more information please see the Local Plan