Help Stop Gentrification and Social Cleansing in Brick Lane

স্পিশালস্পিল্ডে অনাকাঙ্ক্ষীত স্থাপনা বাস্তবায়ল্ডনর আক্রমন

The Truman Brewery development is a short-sighted, poorly and insensitively designed scheme based on an antiquated business model. Rather than providing much-needed housing and affordable workspace, it seeks to introduce buildings inappropriate to the Conservation Area, which will destroy its appearance and character to the detriment of residents and the local community.

This proposal slices off the south east corner of the Truman Brewery site for an ill-conceived development.

?Large glass-walled corporate offices with double-height foyers onto Brick Lane, adopting the architectural language of the City which has no place in the Conservation Area.

?A lamentable failure to address the pressing need for housing and affordable workspace in the area.

?A shopping mall spilling out into the small surrounding streets, bringing more than a thousand extra people into the narrow streets at peak weekend hours.

?Buildings that are too tall and bulky which will have a harmful impact on the character of Brick Lane and the characterful nineteenth-century terrace on the south side of Woodseer St, while obscuring views of the historic Truman Brewery chimney.

?Destroying the distinction between the vibrant, busy character of Brick Lane and Woodseer Street which is a quiet, residential backwater.

?Breaching the local planning guidance that new retail and restaurants should be resisted in the residential side streets off Brick Lane.

?This development focusses on commercial space at the expense of local residents interests, by overshadowing of local houses, creating up to 60% loss of light, and delivering a huge increase in the visitor numbers with all the associated noise and disturbance.

?Restaurants with open air spaces and three terraces for corporate entertainment.

?Very few residents have been consulted.

Planning Application Link:
https://development.towerhamlets.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=DCAPR_131320

HOW TO OBJECT EFFECTIVELY – প্রচর্বোদ করুনঃ

Quote Planning Application PA/20/00415/A1 (140 and 146 Brick Lane, and 25 Woodseer St, London E1).

Please write in your own words your reasons for OBJECTION before Friday 26th June.

Remember to include your postal address.

Members of one household can each write separately.

Anyone can object wherever they are in the world.

Send your objection to:
[email protected]