Despite pledging to amend their proposals, Sainsbury's have instead appealed their over-sized development to the planning inspectorate. Their greed and desire to cash in on high value apartments means that they are happy to damage local heritage, overshadow residents and harm small businesses while providing meagre amounts of affordable housing. They claimed to have listened to the feedback of the thousands of you who signed this petition, the hundreds who joined as ‘Friends of Trinity Green’ and the nine heritage organisations who opposed their plans - but they did not. All objection letters NO LONGER COUNT so it is essential that you write to the planning inspectorate IN YOUR OWN WORDS to object to the disproportionate scale, damage to local heritage and lack of affordable housing. Don’t forget to INCLUDE YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS or your objection will not count. All letters need to be sent by the 15th JANUARY 2018 so please write or send an email now. WHAT TO DO: EMAIL: helen.skinner@pins.gsi.gov.uk REFERENCING: APP/E5900/W/17/3188581 OR BY POST: Helen Skinner The Planning Inspectorate Room 3/O, Temple Quay House 2 The Square Bristol BS1 6PN OBJECTING TO : 1. Disproportionate Scale The development is radically out of context with the surrounding low-rise Whitechapel area. The proposed 28 storey tower (101m) would be the tallest building in the 3 mile stretch between at Aldgate and Canary Wharf. Even the eight ‘smaller’ blocks of up to 15 storeys (59m) would introduce a density beyond Council guidelines. The enormous tower will block daylight to hundreds of homes and businesses, and overlook countless more. 2. Damage to Local Heritage The scheme will overwhelm the historic setting of the Whitechapel Market and Stepney Green Conservation Areas and their 52 listed buildings. The tower also intrudes significantly on the Grade 1 listed Trinity Green Almshouses, sited just 100m to the east of the site. The current proposals demonstrate little evidence of how this remarkable context has influenced the design, which Historic England has described as “substantially harmful”. 3. Lack of Affordable Housing Of the proposed 559 residential apartments only 89 apartments (16%) are to be ‘affordable’, falling far short of the Council’s targets of 35-50% to align with the London Plan. A tiny 6% are family dwellings, making the mix wholly inappropriate for this part of Whitechapel, and doing little to address the wider London housing crisis.