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Oct 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read

🧵 Brick Lane Under Attack
A response by the Save Brick Lane campaign to a defamatory video that has been posted anonymously to Youtube. MYTH: The video claims that the Spitalfields & Banglatown Forum will “cleanse the area of ethnic minorities’.

FACT: In reality, the plan will provide a powerful set of tools for local people to ensure that they get the right types of development for their community.

Sep 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

This evening the Development Committee of @TowerHamletsNow voted IN FAVOUR of the Truman Brewery redevelopment proposal by a margin of 1. 🧵 Today's decision ultimately came down to the votes of just two Labour councillors : Cllr @Kevin_J_Brady and Cllr @KaharChowdhury - both of whom sided with profiteers this evening. Councillior Leema Qureshi was not allowed to vote because she was self isolating at home.

Sep 14, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read

We will be live-tweeting tonights Tower Hamlets Development Committee meeting where they will decide whether to approve the Truman Brewery's plans to build a shopping mall and corporate offices on #BrickLane

You can watch proceedings here from 6:30PM:

towerhamlets.public-i.tv/core/portal/we… A reminder from Bangladeshis across the world on why #BrickLane matters to them and the wider Bengali community.

https://twitter.com/nijjormanush/status/1437520335373578248

Sep 14, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

More than a year ago, the Truman Brewery thought that this proposal would glide through the council during the height of a pandemic. 🧵

https://twitter.com/nijjormanush/status/1437714627299840001

Since this campaign began a year ago, we have collected thousands of objections, gained the support of more than 140 traders & businesses on Brick Lane, knocked on more than hundreds of doors and alerted supporters around the world 🌎