As the eagle-eyed may have spotted in my Comments section, I have kindly been forwarded the marketing information for the Blue Anchor Brewery site on the Mile End Road.

This is a remarkable proposal and I feel badly that I was entirely ignorant of it:-

John Charrington established the Blue Anchor Brewery in Stepney in 1757. His younger brother, Henry, lived in the house next door to us and presumably supervised the work on site. It was the second largest brewery in London, but closed down in 1975 after Charrington had merged with Bass to create a conglomerate. The brewery was then demolished and developed as an unlovely retail park, most of it devoted to a car park. It is a very big and important site and how it is developed will have important consequences for the area, particularly since it is nearly next door to the Genesis Cinema also being developed.

What is currently proposed by AHMM in the outline planning is very similar to the development next to the London Hospital: big buildings set back from the road alongside newly created courtyards.

The obvious question is whether or not Queen Mary University have considered it as a possible site for student housing and additional teaching facilities. It is not very far away and they are keen to connect to the neighbourhood. It might lead to a less generic design.