Griff Rhys Jones rails against plans to ‘smother’ Liverpool Street station

Comedian leads coalition against ‘exploitative’ proposal for 16-storey buildings over listed station

Griff Rhys Jones is leading a coalition of conservationists against what he describes as plans to “smother” Liverpool Street station under 109 metres (350ft) of new offices, shops and a hotel.

The comedian, writer and broadcaster has been appointed president of the revived Liverpool Street Station Campaign (Lissca), a post held in the 1970s by the then poet laureate Sir John Betjeman when he led a successful crusade against plans to demolish the station.