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A 52m student block is planned beside Bethnal Green Gardens. What’s proposed. Why it matters. How to object: bethnal-green.london

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BGL @bthnlgrnldn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This was a sunset view from Bethnal Green Gardens. You can’t see it now. Tall buildings have blocked it. Now they want to build another 11-storey, 52m tower beside the gardens. Once the light is gone, it's gone. bethnal-green.london

Late-afternoon photo in Bethnal Green Gardens with a beer can on the grass in the foreground and the sun low behind trees and buildings beyond.

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BGL @bthnlgrnldn.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Not an April Fool. As @thegentleauthor.bsky.social knows, this is not the first attempt to force an oversized development beside Bethnal Green Gardens. This model shows the shadows an 11-storey, 52m tower would cast across the gardens. Object by Thursday at midnight: bethnal-green.london

Aerial 3D model showing the proposed blue building beside the railway and dark shadow bands stretching across Bethnal Green Gardens.

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BGL @bthnlgrnldn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Summer evening in Bethnal Green Gardens. You can just make out the roofline of the old LEB building silhouetted by the sun. That is where they want to build a new 52m student block. This light matters. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. bethnal-green.london

Summer evening in Bethnal Green Gardens, with tall grass glowing in the low sun and the dark roofline of the old LEB building just visible against the light beyond the trees.

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BGL @bthnlgrnldn.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Bethnal Green Gardens, late Saturday afternoon. The gap in the middle of this photo — and the building to the right — is where they want to build a new 52m student block. Even in a bitterly cold wind, people were still sitting in the sun. Once that light is gone, it’s gone.

Late-afternoon view across Bethnal Green Gardens, with sunlight on the grass and buildings beyond the park; the gap in the middle and the building to the right are the site of the proposed development.

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BGL @bthnlgrnldn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

A 52m student block is planned beside Bethnal Green Gardens. 11 storeys. 520 student rooms. Right by the gardens. We’ve put together a simple guide explaining what’s proposed and how to object: bethnal-green.london Please share.

Aerial site model showing the proposed building (blue) next to the railway and the shadows it would cast across Bethnal Green Gardens.

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