Final Day — Brick Lane on the Scales: Class, Capital and the Financialised City
31 October 2025, Tower Hamlets Town Hall. On the last afternoon of the Truman Brewery Inquiry, the microphones were the
Day 9 (Afternoon) — Need, Weight, and the Test of “Good Growth”
Tower Hamlets is, by the appellant’s own concession, “more acutely in need of housing than any other borough in London”
Day 9 – Light, Language and the Right to Remain
“This crisis, we all know, is the housing crisis… Kensington has zero data centres. Westminster has one. Why should the most densely populated borough in London be the one with over 30? Why must the most marginalized people in our city be forced out by speculation-based real estate?”
The Ayelsham Inquiry Day Four — Maximum Reasonable: Housing Need, Viability and Who Gets to Stay in Peckham
The scheme’s viability is calculated not against the need profile of Peckham, but against the investment horizon of a PLC
“A Line in the Sand”: Brick Lane Speaks After the Inquiry
“We don’t need offices. We need homes.”
Day 8 – Afternoon Session: Planning as Alibi, Capital as Client
As the Inquiry nears its end, the data centre is no longer merely a structure. It is a valuation event.
Economies of Displacement: Inequality, Legitimacy, and the Truman Data Centre (Day 8 -Morning Session)
"regeneration is not a neutral economic event but a redistribution of vulnerability"
