D-Day For Bishopsgate Goodsyard
This is a momentous day for the East End. Today Mayor of London Sadiq Khan will be making his decision on the monstrous Bishopsgate Goodsyard development, which both Tower Hamlets and Hackney Councils have rejected in its current form.
Click here to watch the Mayor of London make his decision live at 2pm
Click here to watch the People’s Hearing which took place on Monday
Click here to download the report of the People’s Hearing
Looking east along Bethnal Green Rd
Looking east along Bethnal Green Rd
Looking east along Quaker St
Looking east along Quaker St
Looking north along Norton Folgate
Looking north along Norton Folgate
Looking north along Commercial St
Looking north along Commercial St
Looking south along Shoreditch High St
Looking south along Shoreditch High St
Looking east along Great Eastern St
Looking east along Great Eastern St
Looking west along Bethnal Green Rd
Looking west along Bethnal Green Rd
Looking north up Shoreditch High St
Looking north up Shoreditch High St
Looking north up Elder St
Looking north up Elder St
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One wonders why, with the mass exodus of workers from city centres, this dreadful edifice should be built. Commercial rents are collapsing as office workers work from home and retail premises are standing empty. There is no need for this eyesore. Except of course to fill the developers pockets.
It is of considerable horror that those who seek to destroy London’s charm no longer seem able to find architects with any skill. How anyone could even contemplate raising these ugly boxes which, ten minutes after completion will join the plethora of future and eventual slum buildings is beyond me! If further “advancement” of open areas needs to be done, surely there must be SOME artichitect with empathy and design flair who could devise something with style and honour those buildings with which it must blend. What on earth are they being taught these days??
I really don’t think Sadiq Khan will make the right decision,
he is after all a ‘dead man walking’ ! & wants to leave ‘something’.
Good luck with your London Mayor Khan today,hear he has killed off the London Cab trade big time with his cycle lanes,but as you all voted him in,that’s what you wanted,or is it? Seems as an outsider now too London your being over run with somebody else’s idea of how you should all live,remember this happening before to the poor old East End,never was the same again in looks and the people,very sad time looking back, but looking forward to seeing or reading how this person the Mayor serves his citizens in there hour of need!! So far not impressed with news of poor old London and its deprived citizens. Pictures show an area was bought up in,but do not remember the roads being so narrow back then, nice to see though. Good luck London and Bishipgate Goods Yard such memoirs you would not believe!! Thanks GA,and keep well.
Poor London – this developement is soul less and ugly – all I can see are pound signs
filling the coffers of the developers. Will be watching at 2 pm with trepidation.
What a monstrosity. Can they not at the very least find something more visually appealing and in keeping with the architecture of the area. I can’t even understand why a building of that size is necessary right now when there has been a flight from London and buildings are standing empty. It is unnecessarily dwarfing all the buildings around it and casting a very ugly shadow over the east end. Lets hope the right necessary is made.
Really hope this gets rejected, an utterly pointless scheme in the current climate. A shame to see the mass destruction of the area around Norton Folgate already.
Ian Silverton – cycle lanes killing the cab trade? Come off it, the cycle lanes haven’t gone nearly far enough, there are far bigger concerns at play here.
Keep up the good work calling attention to these monstrosities. We have similarly awful developments on this side of the Atlantic. Downtown Washington, D.C. has been destroyed by out-of-scale boxes — parts of NYC ditto.
In response to Dianne’s comment I agree that it is very depressing that there don’t seem to be any architects who can think beyond the ‘spreadsheet’ designs which are destroying London.
However there is some hope that things will change with the current crop of architects in training. I went to a lecture by one of the very few humanitarian architects practicing now Peter Barber, and it was absolutely packed with students very keen to hear all about his different approach.
A lot of negativity towards Sadiq Khan on here, latest opinion polls seem to suggest he’s on course to win by a lot, he’s popular with a lot of people – and unpopular with quite a few others but on the the whole seems to be doing a better job than some recent incumbents at least. Interesting that despite yougov giving him a 20 point lead the Sun and the Express report he’s well behind in the polls, can’t think why they wouldn’t like him.
I am so sad that this horror has been approved. Another nail
In the London coffin. Well done all those who objected. The Mayor stood no chance against big business. In my opinion it is a architectural horror show.
Not sure how it works over there, but over here they allow developers to do this because it generates tax revenue. The buildings are taxed and likely the taxes are higher than what was there previously. More money in the city coffers.
As always, follow the money.
Sadiq should be careful about what he leaves. He may not like his “legacy” if this monstrosity of destruction is what he chooses.
Developers should be wary moving forward with pre-Covid plans too. We are entering a new normal and what they are planning may not be sustainable or profitable.
Very depressing result yesterday despite some brilliant points made by various objectors to the scheme who have been working incredibly hard to try and let local voices be heard. However the big business bully boys have won yet again….GRRRRRR!!!
It beggars belief that Sadiq has green lighted the monstrous new office block when it has become obvious that working patterns have altered considerably due to all the new technology, not just the pandemic which has accelerated the changes already happening.
The Reclaim the Goodsyard campaigners have christened the blocks Godzilla and likened them to a dinosaur from another era. I wonder if they will actually become known to posterity as Sadiq’s White Elephant?
Terrible & appalling decision by Sadiq Khan’s office : it will, quite simply put, destroy both the past & the future of not only that part of Bethnal Green & Shoreditch, but also of much of the inner East End. Such decisions will also, in the not so long run, destroy human life in our cities : it would, at a time of crisis, have been wonderful to have been given a decision of sanity and beauty, but instead we are being given one of destruction and obliteration, of both memory and hope.