Tower Hamlets Town Hall

Tower Hamlets Town Hall is a municipal facility in Mulberry Place, Poplar, London.

Tower Hamlets Town Hall
Tower Hamlets Town Hall
LocationMulberry Place, Poplar
Coordinates51.5100°N 0.0062°W / 51.5100; -0.0062
Built1992
ArchitectSten Samuelson and the Beaton Thomas Partnership
Architectural style(s)Modernist style
Shown in Tower Hamlets

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][2] The name, Mulberry Place, was chosen to commemorate the construction of the Mulberry harbours in the dock during the Second World War.[3] Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, which had been based at Bethnal Green Town Hall,[4][5] moved into the building in 1993.[6] The owner of the facility, which the council currently rents, intends to convert it into flats after the council leaves in 2022.[7]

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.[8] The works, which are being designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and undertaken by Bouygues at a cost of £109.5 million, are expected to be complete in 2022.[9]

  • The old Royal London Hospital

References
  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". London: British History Online. pp. 707–724. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. Cherry, Bridget; Bradley, Simon; O'Brien, Charles; Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus (2005). London: East. Yale University Press. p. 661. ISBN 978-0300107012.
  3. "Damaged buildings at the East India Docks, Blackwall". Port Cities. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  4. "London's Town Halls". Historic England. p. 178. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  5. "No. 45244". The London Gazette. 4 December 1970. p. 13356.
  6. "Architect sought for new Tower Hamlets town hall". Architects Journal. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  7. "Council 'powerless' to stop town hall being turned into flats". BD. 5 October 2018. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  8. "London's Tower Hamlets Council approves £100m civic centre". Construction Enquirer. 2 March 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  9. "Bouygues starts Tower Hamlets town hall project". Construction Index. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
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