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Peter Rees, the planning director of the City of London, has backed the Prince of Wales鈥� attack on the 鈥渞andom鈥� spread of tall buildings in London.

Rees鈥� unexpected support follows a speech by Prince Charles last week in which he described a clutch of towers planned for the city as 鈥渁 positive reaction of [carbuncles] that will disfigure and disinherit future generations of Londoners鈥�.

While the prince claims not to be opposed to tall buildings, several key people and organisations have this week emerged in support of his view that their location should be better controlled. As well as Rees, Baroness Kay Andrews, a minister in the communities department, has backed Prince Charles鈥� position.

Rees, who has been in charge of planning in the City since 1987, said: 鈥滿y professional belief is that tall buildings should be clustered. If there are going to be random erections of tall buildings across London, such as along the South Bank and around Tottenham Court Road, then I share the prince鈥檚 concerns.鈥�

Rees has long been seen as an advocate of tall buildings in the City and has argued that building skyscrapers is vital to ensure that London can compete with financial centres such as New York, Hong Kong or Tokyo.

My professional belief is that tall buildings should be clustered rather than randomly erected across London

Peter Rees

Despite his support for the prince, Rees said that St Paul鈥檚 Cathedral and the Tower of London were not threatened by tall buildings. 鈥淪t Paul鈥檚 is perfectly framed by the established strategic views policy, and tall buildings form a natural backdrop to the Tower of London.鈥�

Speaking at last week鈥檚 conference hosted by Prince Charles at St James鈥檚 Palace, Andrews said consultations were under way to strengthen the protection of the UK鈥檚 27 world heritage sites.

She said: 鈥淲e are already consulting on the first new measure to require local authorities to refer applications to the secretary of state where English Heritage has objected to any adverse effect on the world heritage site or its setting, and we will shortly be consulting on further measures.鈥�

Cabe joined in the call for 鈥渁 stronger 3D urban design strategy鈥� to define where tall buildings could be considered, both in the City and many local centres. Diana Hiagh, a director at Allies and Morrison and Cabe鈥檚 director of architecture and design review, said: 鈥淭he present London View Management Framework is a weak and leaky system that allows proposals for towers to spring up between ill-defined view corridors.鈥�