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Love Bethnal Green is the community page for BG. It celebrates all things Bethnal Green. Brought to you by those nice people at Oxford House.

21/08/2026

It’s back. Who cares if the sun has disappeared for a while.

05/08/2026

Join our regular Mindful Monday (with Sandy SY Lee) and have time to pause, soften, breathe and come back to yourself.

Next session is Sept 28 from 6-7:30 pm.

Free l Pay what you can.

www.tunedinheart.org

OH Chapel

30/07/2026

And what a(nother) great day it is in the Green. 🧡🍦

24/07/2026

PLANS FOR 520 STUDENT ROOMS FACE REFUSAL

Tower Hamlets’ Strategic Development Committee on Tuesday evening voted unanimously against approving plans to redevelop the former London Electricity Board site at 255–279 Cambridge Heath Road.

Despite planning officers recommending approval, all nine councillors voted against the proposed 520-room student development.

Councillors raised concerns about:

• Loss of opportunity to provide permanent family and affordable homes
• Growing concentration of student accommodation locally
• Harm to the area’s character/neighbouring residents
• Loss of daylight and community facilities
• Lack of a robust agreement with a university demonstrating the need for the accommodation
• Failure to comply fully with net-zero policies
• Whether the promised community benefits would outweigh the harm

The application has technically been deferred, rather than finally refused. Because councillors went against officers’ advice, a further report must now be prepared before the committee can confirm its decision.

The proposed Section 106 benefits—including affordable student rooms, peppercorn-rent community space, discounted shops and local employment commitments—would only proceed if planning permission were eventually granted.

What would you like to see happen on this important Bethnal Green site? Do you think student accommodation and some retail/community space is right?

I’m guessing this means the excellent Proposition continues in its meanwhile use of the space.

EastLondon

08/07/2026

🌱 FROM THE LAND is a new exhibition at Proposition Bethnal Green, developed in partnership with the Architectural Association.

🏛️ Bringing together works that examine the relationship between architecture and the living world, the exhibition explores architecture’s connections with land, matter and climate.

🥂 Private View
📅 Thursday 9 July
🕡 6.30–8.30pm
✨ All welcome

🌿 Exhibition: FROM THE LAND
📅 10 July – 26 September 2026

🚶 Curator Tour
📅 Saturday 11 July, 3–4pm 🎙️ Co-curator Inigo Minns in conversation with Daniel J. Hudson

🎟️ Free, booking required

📍 Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 0EL

06/07/2026

It’s not passed me by yet. 🥵

A few images Bethnal Green related. Lovely.

05/07/2026

1940’s handbook? Love it.

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