The City’s skyline is always changing, but if we want our economy to grow bigger, it must go higher, writes City of London policy chairman Chris Hayward

Atop my agenda for the City of London this week, as it is almost every week, is to secure and maintain our great capital’s competitiveness and pre-eminence among global cities. So over the next few days, I’m representing the City Corporation in France at Europe’s largest real estate conference, MIPIM 2025, along with the Mayor of London and a coalition of business organisations.

With the London Growth Plan recently published, the main aim of our team is simple: to demonstrate to the world that London is the best place to live, work and visit – and to also drive investment into the city.

The Square Mile in particular, with its 800-year history as a financial hub, plays a key role in the national economy, generating more than £97bn annually and accounting for one in five financial services jobs in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

At MIPIM, the spotlight is fixed on the built environment sector and the City of London Corporation pulls its weight here too, with the highest planning application approval........

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