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

Housing secretary Angela Rayner approved a £500m Truman Brewery redevelopment on Brick Lane, overturning Tower Hamlets council's community master plan for 350 homes. The approved scheme offers 44 homes and a datacentre. Campaigners call it local democracy overridden; the government said the housing alternative lacked deliverable evidence. A legal challenge remains possible.