The Cathedral also submitted an objection, contending that the height of the proposed tower would affect strategic views and harm its heritage significance. A representative wrote: “St Paul’s was designed as a spiritual, cultural, civic and architectural focal point of the City. Its height, massing, and form, rising above wider London, has historically encapsulated these elements of its significance. It also allows for an understanding of the building’s relationship with the topography of London, and the historic reason why such an important place of worship would have been constructed on Ludgate Hill.”