SAVE BRICK LANE

Our campaign was launched in 2020 to stop the Truman Brewery building an ugly shopping mall, but now the Brewery wants to build massive office blocks across the site as well, we need to challenge this too.

We mobilised 7,487 letters of objection to the shopping mall, yet two councillors approved the application at a planning committee of only three people.

Since then, we have been fighting relentlessly to challenge the legitimacy of this decision, taking our case to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, we have supported the Council to produce a Master Plan for the site that reflects community interests.

We want the needs of the local community for genuinely affordable homes and workspaces to be prioritised in the redevelopment of the Brewery. We reject this soulless corporate style development that will push up rents on Brick Lane, driving out independents and undermining the longestablished Bangladeshi community.

THE TRUMAN BREWERY’S OFFICE BLOCKS

• This development is a gated office plaza which offers almost nothing to local stakeholders and the community.
• This development offers only a tiny amount of social and affordable housing which does not even begin to meet the need for homes in the area.
• This development will threaten the livelihood of existing independent shops and businesses in Brick Lane, and inadequately addresses the local need for affordable workspaces.
• The open space is small and has gates restricting access. It is geared to the workers in the new offices who are unlikely to be local people.
• The bulky blocks cause harm to the Conservation Area and the setting of listed buildings, failing to respond to the character and heritage of Spitalfields.

HOW TO OBJECT

You can help us stop this bad proposal by writing a letter of objection to the council as soon as possible.

Please write in your own words and head it OBJECTION.

Anyone can object wherever they live.

Members of one household can each write separately.

You must include your postal address or your objection will be discounted.

Quote all these Planning Applications:
PA/24/01450/A1
PA/24/01451/A1
PA/24/01439/A1
PA/24/01475/NC

Send your objection by email to development.control@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Or by post to:
Planning Department,
Tower Hamlet Town Hall,
160 Whitechapel Road,
London, E1 1BJ

The Save Brick Lane campaign is a diverse coalition of community and heritage groups including Bangladeshi East End Heritage Society, East End Preservation Society, East End Trades Guild, House of Annetta, Nijjor Manush, Spitalfields Life and Spitalfields Trust.

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