Tower Hamlets Town Hall
| Tower Hamlets Town Hall | |
|
Middlesex | |
|---|---|
 Tower Hamlets Town Hall | |
| Type: | Town hall |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ38468089 |
| Location: | 51°30’36"N, 0°0’22"W |
| Town: | Poplar |
| History | |
| Address: | Mulberry Place |
| Built 1992 | |
| By: | Sten Samuelson |
| Town hall | |
| Modernist | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Tower Hamlets Council |
Tower Hamlets Town Hall is a municipal facility in Mulberry Place, Poplar, Middlesex. It is the third town hall built in Poplar, preceded by Poplar Town Hall, which was vacated in 1965 and which in turn replaced Old Poplar Town Hall in 1930.
History
Mulberry Place
The site for the building formed part of a development by the Nordic Construction Company to regenerate the western part of the East India Import Dock.[1] The building itself, which was designed by Sten Samuelson and the Beaton Thomas Partnership in the Modernist style, was completed in 1992.[1] The name 'Mulberry Place' was chosen to commemorate the construction of the Mulberry harbours in the dock during the Second World War.[2]
In 1993 Tower Hamlets Council, which had been based at Bethnal Green Town Hall,[3] moved into the building.[4] However the council only rents the town hall, and the owner has expressed the intent to redevelop it into flats when the lease exires in 2022.[5]
Proposals for a Civic Centre
In March 2018 the council announced plans to move to a new "civic centre" at the old Royal London Hospital which closed in 2012.[6] The works, which are being designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, are expected to be complete in 2022.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hobhouse, Hermione (1994). "'Modern Docklands: Gazetteer of modern non-housing developments', in Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs". British History Online. pp. 707-724. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols43-4/pp707-724. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ↑ "Damaged buildings at the East India Docks, Blackwall". Port Cities. http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.423/Damaged-buildings-at-the-East-India-Docks-Blackwall.html. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ↑ 'London's Town Halls' (Historic England), page 178
- ↑ "Architect sought for new Tower Hamlets town hall". Architects Journal. 7 December 2015. https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions/architect-sought-for-new-tower-hamlets-town-hall/10000257.article. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ↑ "Council 'powerless' to stop town hall being turned into flats". BD. 5 October 2018. https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/council-powerless-to-stop-town-hall-being-turned-into-flats/5095882.article. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ↑ "London’s Tower Hamlets Council approves £100m civic centre". Construction Enquirer. 2 March 2018. http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2018/03/02/londons-tower-hamlets-council-approves-100m-civic-centre/. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ↑ "Bouygues starts Tower Hamlets town hall project". Construction Index. 21 February 2019. https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/bouygues-starts-tower-hamlets-town-hall-project. Retrieved 20 April 2018.