In a little over two months’ time, the City of London Corporation’s ponderously named Planning Applications Sub-Committee will sit in judgment on two more vast skyscrapers for the Square Mile.
It may not sound the most exciting municipal body in the land, but this group of local representatives — known as Common Councillors and Aldermen in the arcane parlance of Britain’s oldest local authority — are deciding on the most rapid and spectacular skyline transformation ever seen in the UK (the Blitz not included).
