Comments on: Developments On The Horizon

By: Richard Harrison

Richard Harrison — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:51:48 +0000

I’m late to the party here- but I’m only an occasional visitor to London.
But, I have a passion for heritage- and this seems amazing that the development has been allowed.
BUT, on the CoL planning website, they state ‘ In limited circumstances a decision can be challenged on the grounds that the City Corporation acted beyond its legal powers in coming to the decision.’

I wonder if “we” have a chance, still?

By: Peter Holford

Peter Holford — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:09:05 +0000

I visited Spitalfields in January for the first time in some years. My wife accompanied me for the first time. As we walked past the first ‘facaded’ building she let out an expletive and said “What’s that?” I remarked that it is an attempt to retain the history while incorporating it into the new fabric. She said “What is the point of that? It’s ugly and stupid.”

This was a comment from somebody who is not a Londoner and has not seen anything like it before. Her visceral reaction tells me that on no level does facadism work, aesthetically or for preserving historical fabric. As if I needed to be told!

By: Juliet Jeater

Juliet Jeater — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 14:24:28 +0000

thank you for the work you are doing to draw people’s attention to the continued destruction of the East End to satisfy corporate greed.

By: gary Arber

gary Arber — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 12:22:27 +0000

Is this a a look into the future ? Going into a concrete replica Victorian pub drinking a synthetic pint of bitter from a plastic demi litre tankard? The mid boggles!
Gary

By: Mark P

Mark P — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 03:23:37 +0000

For those of us far away but eager to help preserve something of old London, are there any ‘friend’s organization(s) where we can send financial support?

By: Nicholas Keeble

Nicholas Keeble — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 19:26:12 +0000

How disappointing: I thought Norman Foster had a degree of sensitivity, but this conclusively proves otherwise.

By: Paul Loften

Paul Loften — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:37:59 +0000

Of course the council will succumb to the argument about jobs and how the new buildings will benefit the local economy and this is why the developers will have their way. Its time to get rid of the illusion that ripping the heart and soul from an area by making it just like any other place will benefit it in the long term. Look at what they have done to our high streets. Absolutely ruined them! by building faceless shopping malls Of course they did not have the foresight to think of the internet and how it would affect shopping. All the malls are the same with empty shops that are impossible to let. The future must not be left in the hands of developers out for a quick buck . Councils must be forced to think futher than the next payday.

By: wendy mukluk

wendy mukluk — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 15:29:46 +0000

those proposed buildings are hideous and way out of proportion with the rest of the area. that office block that is proposed to replace The Still & Star especially makes me recoil in horror. i hope this desecration will be stopped. i am in the usa but i have submitted an objection – i hope it doesn’t matter where objections come from (?)

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 15:11:54 +0000

Thank you, Gentle Author, for keeping us updated and for giving us information on how to resist these horrible threats to the grand architectural heritage of the East End.

By: Sue Mayer

Sue Mayer — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 12:31:31 +0000

Thanks for bringing the proposed wanton destruction of the East End to our attention.

My immediate reaction to the casting of The Still and Star in green concrete was “You cannot be serious!” How anybody could think this is a good idea is beyond me.

London will soon be a ghost city full of high rise office blocks. How depressing.