Comments on: A Public Inquiry Into The Truman Brewery Redevelopment https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/21/a-public-inquiry-into-the-truman-brewery-redevelopment/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:45:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: James Harrison https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/21/a-public-inquiry-into-the-truman-brewery-redevelopment/#comment-1805274 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:54:00 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204406#comment-1805274 This is clearly about greed and profit — not community or need. As Cherub pointed out in their comment above, do we honestly need more office space? Given that the current Labour government seems intent on relaxing planning rules, I suspect this appeal will succeed — call it a gut feeling.

I can’t afford to contribute to the legal fighting fund, much as I wish I could. I’m not even sure that writing to the council will make much difference. Planners and developers are rapidly turning the UK into the Wild West, and it makes me very angry.

Where are the progressive policies Labour championed the last time they were in power — Building Schools for the Future, Sure Start and so on? All that seems to have been abandoned in favour of trashing both town and country with ugly, unnecessary development that benefits those with more money than morality.

]]> By: Dr Roger Green https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/21/a-public-inquiry-into-the-truman-brewery-redevelopment/#comment-1805272 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:52:50 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204406#comment-1805272 All the very best with the Public Inquiry. Your struggle is our struggle which we discuss in our book.

Neoliberalism and Urban Regeneration
London’s Communities Finding a Voice and Fighting Back
By Roger Green and Keith Popple

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/neoliberalism-and-urban-regeneration

]]> By: Cherub https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/21/a-public-inquiry-into-the-truman-brewery-redevelopment/#comment-1804544 Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:10:35 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204406#comment-1804544 I keep reading about the amount of empty office space around now that people are working from home more since the pandemic. If that’s the case then why are more offices needed?

In Switzerland the cities of Zurich and Basel have a major shortage of rental properties, there are studio apartments and large apartments with 4 or 5 bedrooms, but very little is available in between. My city Basel has plans in place to begin converting empty office space to housing, retail and budget hotels for tourists. Some former offices have been taken over by the city government.

On another note, on a recent visit to London in August I felt the skyline in the city had become ugly (I was based by Tower Bridge ). The modern buildings were not a good fit alongside the magnificent classical architecture by the likes of Wren London has to offer. The erosion seems sad, but hey! they’ll say it’s progress.

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