SPECIAL FEBRUARY 2017 NEWSLETTER FORMER LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL CREST NICHOLSON PLANNING APPLICATION AMENDED DRAWINGS At the request of the GLA and Historic England, the applicant is preparing amended drawings to address the Council’s concerns. Following submission of the amended drawings,…
AT THE FORMER LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL Since the Special October Newsletter, a November Supplement has been published, followed by a Post-Script to the November Supplement. All three have either been emailed to you via the East End Waterway Group OR…
FORMER LONDON CHEST HOSPITAL 1. The developers have recently submitted their planning application to Tower Hamlets. The proposed ten-storey block has been reduced to seven storeys, and the proposed seven-storey blocks are now between five and six storeys. Instead of…
EAST END WATERWAY GROUP SPECIAL NOVEMBER 2016 SUPPLEMENT TO OCTOBER NEWSLETTER This supplement provides further information for those who have already sent their email (for which many thanks) and for those who have still to write – please do so as…
EEWG: SPECIAL OCTOBER NEWSLETTER Bethnal Green London E2 9JX In November 2015, the Victorian Society applied for the former hospital to be listed. The following month, Historic England received an application, on behalf of Circle Housing and Crest Nicholson, for…
Petition by iPetitions // Algha Works is London’s finest surviving example of the flat-roofed, multi-storey printing works. With its tall, stallboard lights, deep light wells and distinctive flat roof with ventilation stacks (and other flat-roofed brick structures) the 1908…
EAST END WATERWAY GROUP COUNCIL-OWNED BUILDINGS FOR SALE AND DEMOLITION IN TOWER HAMLETS Mayor John Biggs and his Cabinet agreed on 3 November 2015 to dispose of several council-owned buildings to finance a new Civic Centre at the old London Hospital,…
This impressive three-storey Victorian building is the surviving main building of the former South Grovevvvv Workhouse, opened in 1871 by the Whitechapel Poor Law Union. The Union’s 1858-59 workhouse was in Vallance Road, but the lack of suitable building sites…
EAST END WATERWAY GROUP SECOND NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2015 LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE FISH ISLAND & WHITE POST LANE CONSERVATION AREA Fears were expressed in the first December Newsletter about the Bream Street application being prepared for approval at the December meeting…
EAST END WATERWAY GROUP NEWSLETTER July 2015 ANOTHER MAJOR THREAT TO THE FISH ISLAND AND WHITE POST LANE CONSERVATION AREA We understand that the applicant at Swan Wharf has now decided to postpone the application for about twelve months. As…
