Photograph by Sarah Ainslie

We are seeking to overturn Tower Hamlets’ Council’s appalling decision to approve the Truman Brewery’s application to build a Shopping Mall with four floors of corporate offices in the face of massive local opposition.

The planning application received a record 7,487 letters of objection, a letter of opposition signed by 140 Brick Lane traders and a letter of objection signed by 556 local residents. Despite this overwhelming public rejection of the scheme, two councillors approved the application at a planning committee of only three people.

To pursue our legal challenge, we are employing Susan Ring of top environmental lawyers Harrison Grant who successfully won the Judicial Review at the High Court earlier this year to Save the Bethnal Green Mulberry, revealing that Tower Hamlets Council acted unlawfully.

At this stage, we are raising £5000 to pay Susan Ring and her expert colleagues to go through the council’s highly irregular process of decision making on the Truman Brewery application in forensic detail and clarify whether there are legal grounds for a Judicial Review to quash the decision.

Click here to learn more and contribute to our legal fighting fund

A big block on Brick Lane

Shopping mall

Corporate plaza

www.battleforbricklane.com

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