£1bn London Blackfriars tower blocks approved

A US-Korean development consortium has got the planning green light for a trio of towers at the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge in London.
The landmark £1bn scheme of around 1m sq ft involves building two residential towers of 40 and 22 storeys and an office building reaching 45 storeys and topping out at nearly 200m.
Developer Hines, alongside the National Pension Service of Korea, bought the 18 Blackfriars Road site for £208m in 2021.The approval, which was secured working with