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the myrdle street/fieldgate street neighbourhood is a complex place with a complex history and an increasingly contested contemporary situation. one of the most interesting elements is the two school buildings located on the southern end of myrdle street. one of the buildings is now a madrasas and the other building is known as the whitechapel centre - a 'hub for the creative industries' and is a classic 'community asset development' (moreover, should be) more information on the whitechapel centre is located under 'completed projects'. here listed is a handful of the elements that failed to be realised

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the community trust that was meant to own and manage the building and use the profits its makes (£80,000 + pa) to help continue the regeneration in the neighbourhood was not established - i was in sydney for three weeks when all of this joy was handed over without competition (as was planned and expected) to a 'distant' organisation that has not once passed a pound into the neighbourhood to assist renewal and has failed at every core principle of the project. in recent weeks residents of the neighbourhood have been holding meetings both with the lda and the borough to 'bring it back'

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the whitechapel centre, an 19C board school, has as a roof, a vast playground (small % shown in the photograph). it was and still is the ideal place for a outdoor rooftop summer film festival. it was planned to be held every friday and sunday evening across each summer and tayyabs would have a satellite restaurant, likely to be just mango lassi and a bbq. the roof top playground was also destined to be the site of a play directed by sacha wares. like the community trust, this project can still happen 

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twc box was a solution to a demand for more workspaces, a gallery space and the desire to research new products and techniques. the box would have created an extra income for twc project estimated to be around £75, 000 pa - which would have gone straight into the neighbourhood to do further projects or moreover into the fund for academic scholarships for young people from the neighbourhood. good relations had been established with a scandinavian country's embassy to support the twc box in exchange to use it to showcase their state owned timber products in london. osa had been commissioned to undertake the specifications, there was a budget and affirmative oultine planning discussions had started. (images to be uploaded soon)

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