Not in my Brick Lane: Truman Brewery’s uphill struggle to win support for development plans

By Alex Funk2024-09-30T06:00:00

Truman Brewery Masterplan Chimney Yard designed by Buckley Gray Yeoman, Source - Conica Studio_1

The last time the East End land owner tried to bring change to the iconic London thoroughfare, it was met by fierce resistance. With even more ambitious plans now lodged with the council, what are the odds of them winning the locals over? Alex Funk went to find out

When, in the course of your work as a journalist in the built environment, you are invited to poke your nose around a development site, it is usually because someone, somewhere, feels they have something to show off.

Perhaps it’s a contractor, showing off the swift and efficient progress of works on the project, or an architect flaunting the glitzy finished product. It could even be the client, proudly exhibiting the building in use.

It is less common, however, to be invited to a site before construction has started, and rarer still to look around a scheme before a planning submission has been made. But it was in this unusual situation that Building found itself earlier this summer at Truman Brewery in east London’s iconic Brick Lane neighbourhood.

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