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ROBIN Hood Gardens has moved one step closer to demolition after English Heritage chose not to call for the listing of the Poplar estate.
The conservation group has decided not to recommend special status for the 1970s block, describing it as "neither innovative nor influential" and claiming it "fails as a place for human beings to live".
As the statutory adviser to the government, English Heritage's view will have a significant bearing on the culture minister Margaret Hodge's final decision at the end of June. If Robin Hood Gardens is not listed, it will be demolished to make way for up to 3,000 new homes as part of the Blackwall Reach development.
ONE of the world’s most famous architects has backed it – but it seems a 1970s ‘brutalist’ housing estate next to Canary Wharf will soon be history unless it is listed.
The Wharf revealed how Robin Hood Gardens estate in Blackwall was under threat as part of a large regeneration scheme, and now demolition has come a step closer.
Last Wednesday (March 5) Tower Hamlets Council’s cabinet gingerly approved a rough framework plan for the Blackwall Reach project, which would see up to 3,000 homes rise from the rubble of the 1970s structure.
English Heritage has not yet decided whether to recommend the listing of the building to the Government.
