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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill

City of London proposing to make skyscrapers dim their lights at night

The lights around the Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) in the City
The lights around the Gherkin (30 St Mary Axe) in the City. Photograph: Bim/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Skyscrapers in the City of London would be required to dim their lights at night as part of proposals to reduce visual pollution and save energy.

Under the proposal from the City of London Corporation, property owners across the Square Mile – a 1.12 square mile zone in the centre of the capital whose boundaries stretch from the Temple to the Tower of London and from Chancery Lane to Liverpool Street – would be asked to switch off unnecessary building lights to create “brightness zones” governed by curfews.

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