Critics say it will price out businesses from site on Brick Lane, in the heart of the city’s Bangladeshi community
Local councillors have defied months of campaigning, protests and thousands of objection letters to approve plans for an office block and shopping complex on Brick Lane, the London district at the heart of the UK’s Bangladeshi diaspora.
According to the plan, approved on Tuesday night, the historic Old Truman Brewery buildings, currently home to hundreds of small businesses, are to become the basis for a new “office-led mixed-use development containing retail and restaurants”.