Help save part of the Eastends local history. The Dod Street Employment Office at at 307 Burdett Road.
2 Planning applications for demolition of the old Poplar employment exchange at 307 Burdett Road have already been refused by Tower Hamlets Council, now the sites owners are taking our council to the High Court in an effort to overturn the decision.
“There is no doubt that the Poplar Employment Exchange has strong local value and is an important East London landmark. If this were a Conservation Area, the dignified neo-Georgian elevations and historic interest of Poplar Employment Exchange would make a positive contribution to its character.”
Hannah Parham – English Heritages Adviser’s Report 1/6/2009.
East End Waterway Group will be presenting a petition to Telereal Trillium (the developers) on Monday 25 October 2010 at 11.00 am – 140 London Wall (on Bastion Highwalk – East Side of Museum of London – Nearest Tube St Pauls) Click to see map
We, the undersigned local residents and others ask Trillium (Prime) Property Group Ltd to allow the retention and adaptation of the former poplar employment exchange at 307 Burdett Road as a training and social enterprise centre for unemployed local people, called THE LANSBURY CENTRE
Just to remind those who would occupy the few planned affordable apartments they are members of the proletariat and that those who can afford it don’t want to literally live with them, the proposed development has two separate entrances.