Record response to Network Rail’s Liverpool Street overhaul as number of people opposing or supporting plan nears 5,000

By Tom Lowe2026-02-09T13:22:00

Controversial scheme due to be heard by City’s plannning committee tomorrow afternoon

More than 3,500 members of the public are objecting to Network Rail’s £1bn plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station in what has broken records as the highest number of objections ever received by a planning application in the City of London.

Planning officers have recommended the Acme-designed overhaul for approval ahead of a meeting of the City’s planning committee tomorrow afternoon in what is set to be a fraught hours-long showdown between Network Rail and the scheme’s critics.

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