Comments on: At Wellington Buildings In Bow https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/12/at-wellington-buildings-in-bow/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 12 May 2021 14:40:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Linda Granfield https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/12/at-wellington-buildings-in-bow/#comment-1377905 Wed, 12 May 2021 14:40:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186144#comment-1377905 Two tin cans attached to a beautiful terrace.

I agree with Bill. Make the compatible additions. Recycle the bricks from the end/joining walls, replicate the pattern on the end of the addition.

Do these developers enjoy the battles? This one seems so avoidable–get the public onboard with a nod to the beauty of the original buildings. Everyone’s happy (or happier).

]]> By: Bill https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/12/at-wellington-buildings-in-bow/#comment-1377896 Wed, 12 May 2021 13:33:46 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186144#comment-1377896 How very silly to not simply make extensions by replicating the original architecture and materials.
Lot less of a headache for them. And everybody else.

Silly.

]]> By: Eve https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/12/at-wellington-buildings-in-bow/#comment-1377879 Wed, 12 May 2021 11:24:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186144#comment-1377879 Brereton’s Wellington Buildings have survived thus far in good shape, maintaining their dignified poise & defying any need for run of the mill concrete & glass ‘improvements’ . I so hope any incongruous additional extensions are denied planning permission & they are duly protected as is.

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/05/12/at-wellington-buildings-in-bow/#comment-1377847 Wed, 12 May 2021 07:43:48 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=186144#comment-1377847 Oh dear, one really has to ask what is the matter with these people? Destroying the symmetry of the buildings might be acceptable if the work was carried out using materials which matched the original, but to deliberately tack on two completely different slabs? Dare one ask the likely cost of each of the ten flats thus achieved?

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