Online Petition to Save the London Fruit & Wool Exchange, Brushfield Street
The area around what was once Dorset Street was under threat from developers who wanted to build on the site against the wishes and needs of local people and businesses. Although it is fully agreed that parts of the site such as the Whites Row multi-storey carpark are far from perfect the site does have qualities that need preserving such as the
London Fruit & Wool Exchange. Copyright Spitalfields Life
Thanks to the objections lodged before Christmas the original plans were put aside…but only to reappear again in an altered form. The new proposal states:
Demolition of Whites Row multi-storey car park, 99-101 Commercial Street (The Bank), 54 Brushfield Street (The Gun public house), and partial demolition of the London Fruit & Wool Exchange behinf the retained Brushfield Street facarde and the erection of six storey building with a basement, for business, employment and retail use (Use Classes B1/A1/A2/A3 & A4) with landscaping and associated works together with a new pavilion building for retail accommodation (Use Class A1)
Despite the claims to improve the area, local residents and businesses have not been consulted and a meeting of the Stategic Development Committee of Tower Hamlets council will be held on Tuesday 6th March to discuss this development.
Please sign the on-line petition by clicking the link here:
THE PETITION NEEDS TO BE SIGNED VERY URGENTLY!
Whilst signing the petition why not leave a comment like the historian and broadcaster Dan Cruickshank did:
To save the special architectural, historic, social and economic character of Spitalfields which this monolithic office scheme theatens
To see what is trying to be saved visit the Spitalfields Life website which has interesting pictures of the site.
The organisers are indebted to the “Save Mother Levy’s” Campaign Group for raising this issue. You can visit their Facebook Page here.
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