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The Quiet Removal of the Public Realm, Tower Hamlets and the Rentier State

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The Quiet Removal of the Public Realm, Tower Hamlets and the Rentier State

This may be the most alarming achievement of the rentier state, not only that it cheapens public life, but that it persuades people to mistake that cheapening for realism.

Brick Lane, Rendered Legible to Capital

Brett Christophers

Brick Lane, Rendered Legible to Capital

A city is not an investment pipeline. It is a shared public life built over generations — and the right to live it cannot be priced as an “acceptable” loss.

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

Brett Christophers

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 same, the bundles the same, the cast of characters mostly unchanged. What shifted was the frame. The closing submissions no longer pretended this was only a dispute about façades and

Day 9 – Light, Language and the Right to Remain

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?”

“A Line in the Sand”: Brick Lane Speaks After the Inquiry

“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

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)

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"

Day 7 — Afternoon Session: The Public Re-Enters the Frame

Brick Lane Inquiry

Day 7 — Afternoon Session: The Public Re-Enters the Frame

Public testimony itself became evidence: proof that planning is a living process, not a closed algorithm.

Day 5 (Afternoon) – Third-Party Submissions - The Wall Still Stands

Day 5 (Afternoon) – Third-Party Submissions - The Wall Still Stands

“Housing — especially social housing. Green and open spaces. Safe, walkable streets. Support for small businesses. More community and cultural facilities. GP surgeries and childcare. Sensible height and density — and the celebration of Bangladeshi heritage and stories.”

Truman Brewery Redevelopment: Independent Analysis Finds Scheme in Breach of London Planning Law

Brick Lane Inquiry

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.

Brick Lane Public Inquiry — Day Two (Afternoon): Heritage as Commodity

Brick Lane Inquiry

Brick Lane Public Inquiry — Day Two (Afternoon): Heritage as Commodity