Comments on: The Battle For The Truman Brewery https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:40:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1637471 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 17:40:56 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1637471 Objection made and emailed. Bastards. It’s all about money and as we know love of money is the root of all evil. Let’s leave it there.

]]> By: David John Trillo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1634168 Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:17:05 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1634168 As usual the rich builders want to be richer for their own huge buildings. Most people much prefer their old buildings which are much more interesting.

]]> By: Katy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1633995 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 20:52:41 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1633995 I don’t live in London but do intend to object. Through the gentle author’s blog, I am enthralled to read of the history of Spitalfields and it’s inhabitants. The proposed development needs to be appropriate so that it blends into and is right for this community. Not a gated bland overdone affair. Come on people get behind this important issue.

]]> By: Robin Blench https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1633588 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 17:12:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1633588 I just submitted the following:

OBJECTION to proposed development

Robin Blench
12:10 PM (0 minutes ago)
to development.control

This email is in reference to the following planning applications: PA/24/01439/A1, PA/24/01450/A, PA/24/01451/A1, PA/24/01475/NC.
The sheer size of the proposed development with its overshadowing, massive blocks is an insult to the very nature of the Conservation Area with its numerous listed buildings, its rich character, its manifestation of English heritage.
There is a desperate need for homes for local people in the area, and the development simply does not address this; rather, the amount of affordable housing proposed is risible, as is the amount of open–and restricted–space. Should the developers be successful, it is clear that rents in the area will increase dramatically, as we have seen in other parts of London.
The wants and needs of the present thriving community, which include the owners of small businesses, are simply not addressed. The office plaza being considered is emblematic of the greed and avarice of London’s developers uncaringly trampling on the rights of the less fortunate.

Robin Blench

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1633563 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:50:12 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1633563 Done! Thank you for organizing this, GA.

]]> By: Milo https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1633456 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:27:58 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1633456 (Sigh) They just don’t give up do they? They just go away, have a few coffees and jiggle around the plans a bit to come up with something ‘the same but different.’

Time to Marshall the troops…

]]> By: Jo Nightingale https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1633423 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:41:31 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1633423 I assume too that the existing independent market stalls in some of the brewery buildings would all be lost? Is that an inevitability, whatever else happens?

]]> By: Jill Wilson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/10/13/the-battle-for-the-truman-brewery/#comment-1633420 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 07:30:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=201289#comment-1633420 Having spent a lot of time trying to make sense of the plans so that I can make a model for the exhibition I can testify that the whole development is much too dense and overpowering, and a waste of such a wonderful opportunity to do something more imaginative on such a special site.

The developers have also been quite sneaky by calling the offices ‘work spaces’ which makes them sound much less corporate and more creative.

But I have a horrible feeling that if it went ahead as proposed it would end up like Broadgate and the horrible soulless development behind the Wool Exchange facade.

There must be better alternatives which would reflect and enhance the unique character of Brick Lane and the surrounding area.

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