The Battle For The Truman Brewery

Just some of the proposed office blocks the Truman Brewery

Readers will recall our campaign in 2020 to stop the owners of the Truman Brewery building an ugly shopping mall, but now they want to build massive office blocks across the site as well, we need to challenge this too.

Last time, 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 to challenge the legitimacy of this decision, taking our case to the Supreme Court.

Everything has changed now the new Tower Hamlets Council are onside. They have produced a Master Plan for the site that reflects local interests by advocating for social affordable housing across the site.

We want the needs of the community 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 long-established Bangladeshi community.

Please help by writing an objection to the Truman Brewery development, using this simple guide below.

REASONS FOR OBJECTION

*The Truman Brewery’s development will be a gated office plaza which offers almost nothing to local stakeholders and the community.

*This proposal offers only a tiny amount of social and affordable housing which does not even begin to meet the need for homes in the area.

*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 development offers too little for local small businesses and inadequately addresses the need for affordable workspaces.

*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 EFFECTIVELY

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 Hamlets Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Rd, London, E1 1BJ.

The proposed line of office blocks on Buxton Street would overshadow Allen Gardens public park

You can learn more about the Truman Brewery’s development proposal and Tower Hamlets Council’s Master Plan by visiting the free exhibition at the Kobi Nazrul Centre, 30 Hanbury St, E1 6QR, every Saturday and Sunday 12-4pm from 19th October.

The Save Brick Lane campaign is a coalition of local 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.