Save Brick Lane with Nijjor Manush

Join Save Brick Lane campaigners for a panel discussion exploring the fight to protect the area and its future.

Brick Lane has been home to waves of communities who built it, fed it and fought for it. Now its future is being decided. 

The Save Brick Lane campaign is a grassroots community movement in East London opposing commercial redevelopment and a data centre project at the historic Old Truman Brewery site. Despite unanimous rejection of the proposals by Tower Hamlets Council, the national government approved the plans in July 2026. The campaign aims to stop the construction of this data centre, with the goal of focusing development on social housing, and affordable community spaces.

In this talk, campaign group member Nijjor Manush lays out what's at stake, who gets to shape the area, and what the community is doing to keep it theirs.