London Square has unveiled its revised plans for St Wilfrid’s. They look better. The monolithic block has acquired a varied roofline, sloping upper storeys and echoes of Tite Street’s artists’ studios. These changes are welcome and reflect our views as relayed to London Square.

But this is a redesign, not the rethink Tite Street needs. It is not the considerate scale and elegant architecture our historic street demands.

Behind the new façade, the building remains as high and bulky as the proposal London Square was forced to withdraw. Significant parts still appear to exceed the local council’s 21-metre limit on height, on a site where tall buildings are not appropriate. It still builds over the chapel and a material part of the garden, intrudes into Tite Street’s important townscape gaps and will turn Tite Street into a dark canyon.

There is still no replacement community use.

London Square should not ask Tite Street to foot the bill – through overdevelopment – for the price it chose to pay for the site. With more thought, it could create a development that honours this extraordinary street and demonstrates that it can deliver London architecture and scale of which the city can be proud. It should choose architectural legacy and development restraint over maximum cash return.

London Square has held just one round of public consultation before submitting its application at the end of August. If approved, building work could begin as early as next spring.

The danger is clear: a better-looking building must not be mistaken for a better, let alone acceptable proposal.

Our campaign forced London Square to withdraw its first application. We must now ensure that a re-skinned version does not succeed in its place.

Tite Street has won a reprieve, not yet the development it deserves.