47 Grey Eagle Street data centre site (Truman Brewery Block A), Spitalfields

Name: 47 Grey Eagle Street data centre site (Truman Brewery Block A), Spitalfields
Address: GB

Permitted

United Kingdom · 1 project · Last reported 2026-07-29

Summary

On 29 July 2026 the Secretary of State allowed Appeal A (APP/E5900/W/25/3367041) and granted planning permission for demolition of the existing buildings at 47 Grey Eagle Street and construction of a new building providing 5,200 sq m GIA of Use Class B8 floorspace for use as a data centre (Tower Hamlets application PA/24/01450). The permission is subject to the Annex B1 conditions, including a three-year commencement limit. The appellant's inquiry case describes it as a speculative retail co-location facility. No operator, tenant, demolition, construction start or capacity is established. evidence

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Planning Casework Unit) · published 2026-07-29

Location

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Projects (1)

Truman Brewery Block A Data Centre, 47 Grey Eagle Street

Permitted last observed as of 2026-07-29 · Development consent

GOV.UK publication page, published 29 July 2026, carrying the decision letter and Inspector's report for four recovered appeals: a data centre, a mixed-use redevelopment, a commercial building and listed building works on and around the Truman Brewery site in Tower Hamlets. evidence

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · published 2026-07-29

Official London Datahub record for the 2024 EIA scoping request PA/24/00631. It covers three separate planning application areas, Block A (the 5,200 sq m GIA data centre), the main site and Ely's Yard, including 47 Grey Eagle Street, and publishes their red-line parts as a geometry collection. The captured record omits a CRS member; its coordinates are British National Grid metres, as the Hackney consultation copy of the same red line (Hackney-2024_0876) states explicitly with EPSG:27700. One 1,582 sq m part contains the PA/24/01450/A1 centroid, 14.0 m inside its nearest edge, and its own centroid lies 0.7 m from that point. That part matches the 0.16 ha data-centre site area. The adjacent 1,505 sq m part contains the PA/24/01439/A1 Ely's Yard centroid, consistent with the Inspector's description of Appeal A's site on the opposite side of Grey Eagle Street from Ely's Yard. evidence

Greater London Authority / London Borough of Tower Hamlets · published 2025-05-12

2018 permit for Interxion Carrier Hotel Limited's Brick Lane Data Centre at 91-95 Brick Lane, an installation centred on National Grid Reference TQ 33799 82048, with 13 standby generators housed at Lon 1 and Lon 2 (57.59 MWth aggregate). The Environment Agency's September 2026 installations decision list records a variation of this permit (EPR/QP3434DR/V002) issued on 1 September 2026. evidence

Environment Agency · published 2018-05-09

Source and location review

Status source

Secretary of State decision letter and Inspector's report: recovered appeals on and around the Truman Brewery, Tower Hamlets (APP/E5900/W/25/3367041 and others), 29 July 2026 evidence row
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Planning Casework Unit) · published 2026-07-29 · Government record

Locator

Project locator · Official source · official_permitted_application_site_centroid evidence

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Status age at review: 90 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 51.52130, -0.07381
Geometry licence: all-rights-reserved
Use scope: Project locator
Scope class: official_permitted_application_site_centroid
Authority: Official source
Source entity: Campus
Method: direct_gla_planning_datahub_permission_record_centroid
Derivation: direct_geometry
Precision scope: Authority-published centroid of the permitted data-centre application site (PA/24/01450/A1; 0.16 ha). It lies inside the matching 1,582 sq m Block A part of the borough's EIA scoping red line (PA/24/00631), 14.0 m from its nearest edge; the part's farthest vertex is 32.2 m away. It locates the small application site, not a surveyed building footprint, construction extent or legal boundary.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The authority publishes no positional accuracy for the application centroid (latitude is published to four decimals); the offset to the future building within the roughly 40 m by 50 m site is unknown.
Geometry evidence: 41e1c3d3

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Evidence

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Evidence for 47 Grey Eagle Street data centre site (Truman Brewery Block A), Spitalfields
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Environment Agency permit EPR/QP3434DR: Interxion Carrier Hotel Limited, Brick Lane Data Centre, 91-95 Brick Lane, London Archived copy	Environment Agency Government record	Site and project identity	2018-05-09	2026-10-16	Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated	Environment Agency	`231d3d4600aa56e99feb3109c7b9f8b8eeaa0898d1798f57118176672f9c7d79` Retained source material; see source provenance
GLA Planning London Datahub Tower_Hamlets-PA_24_00631: Truman Brewery EIA scoping red-line record (Block A data centre, main site and Ely's Yard) Archived copy	Greater London Authority / London Borough of Tower Hamlets Government record	Site and project identity	2025-05-12	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Greater London Authority / London Borough of Tower Hamlets	`20b8a73a801c8f97b8521d84ad8abfe63725ead03e53de4fb4ef88cdde544c3b` Retained source material; see source provenance
GLA Planning London Datahub Tower_Hamlets-PA_24_01450_A1: 47 Grey Eagle Street data centre, appeal allowed Archived copy	Greater London Authority / London Borough of Tower Hamlets Government record	Geometry	2026-10-11	2026-10-16	all-rights-reserved	Greater London Authority / London Borough of Tower Hamlets	`81afec12b59bc4bcbb449ca3ed55308c6de2f20a76182afaf0141e1b6a655249` Retained source material; see source provenance
GOV.UK: Recovered appeal: Sites on and around the site of Truman Brewery, Tower Hamlets, London (refs: 3367041, 3367172, 3367179 and 3367369 - 29 July 2026) Archived copy	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Government record	Site and project identity	2026-07-29	2026-10-16	Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	`0cf64da20fbb500f626ad8fc414e6ff03761b986996212f76e4452534ec46bdd` Retained source material; see source provenance
Secretary of State decision letter and Inspector's report: recovered appeals on and around the Truman Brewery, Tower Hamlets (APP/E5900/W/25/3367041 and others), 29 July 2026 Archived copy	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Planning Casework Unit) Government record	Development consent	2026-07-29	2026-10-16	Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; Planning Inspectorate	`b52d3785df60d7f650be8b86df2f08bea96ee1158a1975bca2268554a0053970` Retained source material; see source provenance

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Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). 47 Grey Eagle Street data centre site (Truman Brewery Block A), Spitalfields [site vcc-site-dd95c33cd28204fac0aa]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-dd95c33cd28204fac0aa/

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