The high-rise tower will be 309.6 metres (1016ft) tall and join The Shard as the tallest building in the UK ... plans would ‘seriously degrade the scale and character of the public realm ...

Plans for the City’s tallest tower were given the go ahead today. The building known as 1 Undershaft will rise to 306.9 metres (1008ft) will exactly equal the height of the Shard across the ...