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Gove intervenes on Barbican and old Museum of London development

A hangover from a post-war era of concrete construction, heritage site, or, as described by the Londonist, the “world’s largest broken flight departures board”, Bastion House in the City of London’s Barbican is possibly all three. But it has now become the latest flash point between developers and Michael Gove. On Wednesday, The City of London Corporation Planning Applications-Sub Committee planning officers approved plans by Sheppard Robson an…