Boris Johnson’s plan for a new bridge across the Thames in central London is bad news.
English Heritage and SE1 residents will certainly oppose it.
According to today’s Sunday Times, the Mayor of London is suggesting a bridge lined with shops linking the South Bank with the Embankment. It would be midway between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge.
The north end would have twin 35-storey towers filled with luxury flats.
It could be All Fools Day rather than the May Day weekend.
This scheme will not be popular with lawyers in The Temple. Only yesterday Judge Simon Brown was writing in The Times about the setting of its historic garden.
This plan takes no account of the much admired view of the City of London from Waterloo Bridge or the view up the wide expanse of King’s Reach from Blackfriars Bridge.
There is only one place for an Old London Bridge style bridge with shops and houses and that is London Bridge itself. But that might spoil Boris’s view from City Hall.