The Mayor of London has ‘called in’ a planning application for a 63-storey skyscraper, in a landmark move which could overturn Tower Hamlets’s decision to reject the tower earlier this month.  It is the first time the new power for intervening in local planning decisions, which only came into force at the beginning of Boris Johnson’s office, has been used.  If the Mayor approves the Columbus Tower scheme in the city’s Docklands...more.