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Originally Posted by Changing City
Southwark is part of London like Burnaby is part of Greater Vancouver. There's Greater London (with a mayor) and there's The City of London, which is where the centre of commerce has traditionally located.
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Southwark Council has a Plan, and planning department, just like Burnaby has its own planning department and an ODP.
The police force debate is totally irrelevent, but The City of London has its own police force just as the City of Vancouver has its own police force, and Burnaby has the RCMP.
And the tallest building in Greater London isn't in the core, it's in Southwark, south of the Thames, not that close to The City.
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Before 2019, when the second tallest was completed at 22 Bishopsgate (in the City of London), the tallest for nearly 30 years was at Canary Wharf, which is miles from the centre of London. (You can see it as part of that cluster of towers off in the distance on the City of London image above. Canary Wharf has a cluster of towers just as Brentwood has a cluster of towers, distant from the centre of the city.
Several European cities have their tallest buildings outside the core. It's a weird obsession to get hung up on. |
Do you know that the Shangri-la at the Shard is barely about 300m to the Tower Bridge, one of the most iconic landmarks in London?
Of course Southwark has a plan, it's just like Oakridge has a plan, Collinghood neighbourhood has a plan, Kitsilano has a plan, but they all belong to the City of Vancouver! If the tallest building were to be built at Marine Gateway, it would still be the pride of Vancouverites. If the tallest is built in Southwark, it would be the pride of all Londoners, not folks in neighbouring municipalities like Surrey, Luton, Reading or Crawley.
"City of London" is only a sqaure mile for Pete's sake. A huge majority of London city consists of the boroughs. Most importantly, there is only one mayor overseeing all the boroughs.
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