UK Government Overrides Tower Hamlets to Approve £500m Brick Lane Datacentre Scheme

Housing secretary Angela Rayner approved a £500m Truman Brewery redevelopment on Brick Lane, overturning Tower Hamlets council's unanimously adopted community master plan that envisioned 350 homes. The approved scheme offers 44 homes and a datacentre. Campaigners call it a "trumping" of local democracy; the government cited insufficient evidence the housing alternative was deliverable. A legal challenge remains possible.