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Statement by ConserveConnect in support of the Save Brick Lane campaign In light of renewed discussions around the future of the Truman Brewery redevelopment application, we wish to make one point absolutely clear: This application should not be called in by the Mayor of London. To do so now would

ConserveConnect publishes the following open letter in response to the ongoing threat of cultural displacement and speculative redevelopment in Brick Lane. We invite cultural institutions, small businesses, residents, and public figures across London and beyond to endorse, share, or republish this letter in solidarity. This is a moment to choose

By ConserveConnect Editorial Team | August 2025 The planned demolition of the Grade II-listed Corbett Arms Hotel in Tywyn has become a flashpoint—not just for heritage conservation, but for public accountability. Behind the crumbling masonry lies a deeper collapse: one of legal responsibility, enforcement failure, and planning integrity. Recent reports

Liverpool Street, Brick Lane, and Beyond – How Speculative Capital is Eroding London's Public Wealth and Cultural Fabric By ConserveConnect Editorial Team In the name of "regeneration," London is being slowly disassembled and sold off. From Liverpool Street Station to Brick Lane, Clerkenwell to Whitechapel, a growing

The campaign to stop the radical redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station has intensified, with leading heritage and urban design organisations mounting significant opposition to Sellar and Network Rail’s proposed scheme, led by architects ACME and Herzog & de Meuron. The Victorian Society—a statutory consultee on major listed building

“On Margate Sands. I can connect / Nothing with nothing.” The lines, stark and sorrowful, sit at the heart of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land—a fractured modernist poem that helped redefine 20th-century literature. But their setting is real, tangible, and unexpectedly English: the windswept seafront of Cliftonville, Margate’