Day 6 - The Conversion of Place — Data, Value and the Truman Brewery Data Centre
By excluding questions of ownership, profit, and displacement, the inquiry preserves its image of neutrality. In truth, neutrality is the mechanism of capture.
Day 5 — The Heritage That Matters: Cross-Examining Historic England’s Legacy
Who now decides what 'heritage that matters' means?
Part III — London for Sale: An Open Objection to Towards a New London Plan (2025)
London’s greatness was not built by speculation but by solidarity—by communities that repaired, reused and renewed their environment through time.
Part II — The Financialisation of London
When housing, heritage and open space are treated as investment classes, moral boundaries are replaced by yield curves.
Part I — The Empire of Finance: How Property Became London’s Primary Market
Financialisation does not merely alter prices or tenure; it remakes governance itself.
Truman Brewery Redevelopment: Independent Analysis Finds Scheme in Breach of London Planning Law
Our research brief finds the Truman Brewery redevelopment in breach of London’s planning law — and unfit for approval in whole or part.
Day 4 Morning – The Architecture of Justification
This was not evidence but reiteration: the legal language of compliance performed as fact.
Brick Lane Inquiry — Day Three (Afternoon): The Aesthetics of Adequacy
“Once the means of decision become routine, the imagination collapses.”
Brick Lane Inquiry — Day Three (Morning): Landmarks and Blind Spots
Forshaw’s testimony turned planning jargon back into moral language.
“The battle,” he said, “isn’t over style — it’s over stewardship.”
