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Built Heritage

15
Dec
Final Day — Brick Lane on the Scales: Class, Capital and the Financialised City

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
12 min read
15
Oct
John Burrell’s Alternative Vision for Brick Lane: Regeneration Without Erasure

John Burrell’s Alternative Vision for Brick Lane: Regeneration Without Erasure

“To conserve,” Burrell wrote, “is to sustain the relationships that make a place thrive.”
3 min read
14
Oct
Brick Lane Public Inquiry — Day One Summary

Brick Lane Public Inquiry — Day One Summary

The architects’ presentations — however elegant — cannot conceal the structural truth: this is not heritage-led regeneration; it is displacement by design.
5 min read
07
Oct
Architects for Social Housing: Repair, Not Erasure

Architects for Social Housing: Repair, Not Erasure

If demolition is the architecture of finance, ASH’s work is the architecture of resistance.
7 min read
04
Oct
Saving Station Street: Who Benefits When Britain Erases Its Own Memory?

Saving Station Street: Who Benefits When Britain Erases Its Own Memory?

Station Street contains all the ingredients of sustainable urban life: density, walkability, mixed use, and heritage that anchors community identity. What it needs is maintenance, not obliteration.
5 min read
24
Sep
Peckham: Development or Regeneration?

Peckham: Development or Regeneration?

If London is to remain a city of neighbourhoods rather than a market of assets, Peckham must be allowed to follow the path of restoration-led regeneration.
3 min read
23
Sep
The Resurgence of Craft Carpentry in Period Property Revival

The Resurgence of Craft Carpentry in Period Property Revival

“The most sustainable timber is that already in place—seasoned, serviceable, and made durable through centuries of performance”
5 min read
29
Aug
A Tax Without a Vision: Housing, Heritage, and the Perils of Market Rule

A Tax Without a Vision: Housing, Heritage, and the Perils of Market Rule

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
5 min read
27
Aug
Restoring Continuity: Housing, Heritage, and Community in Thanet

Restoring Continuity: Housing, Heritage, and Community in Thanet

Thanet today stands at a crossroads. It could become another case study in transience—a place hollowed out by speculative fervor, full of stylish bars and empty flats. Or it could chart a rarer course, showing how a coastal town can balance revival with rootedness.
6 min read
10
Aug
Demolition by Incentive

Demolition by Incentive

Why Britain keeps tearing down its best houses—and how we can stop it.
4 min read