Norwich city council fears it could lose more than £12m in housing funding following a decision by the communities secretary to call in a major housing development in the city centre.

Historic England objected to the Broadway Malyan scheme, which included 1,200 new homes, a hotel, cinema, multi-storey car parks, a place of worship and ground-floor retail and commercial space on a site in Anglia Square.

The heritage group urged James Brokenshire to call in the development on the grounds that it would “radically disrupt the character of the cityscape” and intrude on many views, despite the original plans being re-jigged to reduce the height of the scheme’s principal tower from 25 to 20 storeys.