Worrying news from Brick Lane
There have been grumblings from the Bangladeshi Caterers’ Association recently that landlords in Brick Lane and the surrounding area are putting rents up too far. Rents, apparently, have doubled in the last four years. Though some of the Indian restaurants in the area have gone upmarket, I’d be very surprised if they had seen anything like a doubling in their revenues.
What’s worrying is that if rental pressure continues, we may see ‘Banglatown’ disappear.
There’s a precedent just down the road, in Spitalfields. When I moved to the East End in the 1980s, there was a great Sunday market in the old …read more
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