In the political ethics of eyesores, a lumpen London office block trumps clean energy | Rowan Moore

The government believes a solar farm’s ‘visual harm’ outweighs its economic benefits; with the Mitsubishi tower it’s the reverseLast week the government decided to refuse planning permission for a solar farm in Northamptonshire. This is the same government that last month, possibly encouraged by a letter from the developers Mitsubishi to Rishi Sunak, approved 72 Upper Ground, a prominent, lumpen office block on the South Bank in London.In the first case they decided that