The Limehouse Petition; for a future inner city

A campaign brochure setting out the celebrated story of the Limehouse Basin development in London's docklands where local people tried to halt a developer's scheme for luxury housing and instigate a mixed-use, community-based alternative.

Although not achieving all its objectives, the document played an important role in securing a higher standard of development both for Limehouse and for the docklands area generally. It is a fascinating, comprehensive analysis of a major development opportunity and a rare insight into the passion and fury of development politics in the 1980s.

The Limehouse Petition; for a future inner city
Published by the Limehouse Development Group in association with the Town & Country Planning Association, 1986.

Editor: Nick Wates
Production: Rodney Mace
Design: Caz Hildebrand
Photography: Mark Edwards
Sponsorship: David Goodman
Launch: Caroline Theobald
Legal advice: Werner Ullah

Sponsored by the Greater London Council, Bovis Homes and many local individuals and organisations.
Signaturies include Dr David Owen, Peter Shore, James Robertson, Spike Milligan, George Nicholson, Terry Farrell, Ian McKellen and Sheila McKechnie

ISBN 0 902797 12 3
32 pages, 36 black and white photographs, 7 line illustrations, colour cover