PETITIONRejectedPetition · petition.parliament.uk

Stop the building of 30 tower blocks in Plymouth, Devon city centre.

To debate the destruction of Plymouth City Centre by allowing the development of 30 tower blocks in the city centre that is no more than a mile wide. The post war infrastructure was built for a low level city and cannot withstand this intense pressures these built would place on it.

Last fetched 18 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk

Signatures

signatures

Government response threshold (10,000) · 6/10,000

Debate threshold (100,000) · 6/100,000

Petition progress2 events · Sept – Oct 2025

20 OCT 2025
Petition rejected
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28 SEPT 2025
Petition created

Background

Plymouth is one of the last low level city’s in the UK. Many of the new towns, and cities destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the post war period during the 20th century used Abercrombie and Lord Astors vision of a new low level spacious city as the premise for their designs. These plans will alter the city centre forever and it will lose this historic context. Situated on a plateau of land where parts are below sea level the  infrastructure and facilities was not built for such intense housing.