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Property development dispute
In 2002, Pauline Forster purchased the George Tavern at auction. The original plot was split at auction, with the nightclub Stepneys being sold to a landlord, who then sold it to Swan Housing Association.

In 2008 Swan Housing Association submitted plans to the local council Tower Hamlets to build a development of residential flats on what was once Stepney's Nightclub. Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse, Grace Jones and Ian McKellen joined a campaign to halt the development. Tower Hamlets rejected Swan Housing Association's proposal.

In 2010, property company Swan Housing Association submitted new plans to Tower Hamlets, which were again turned down by the local council. Swan then appealed this decision to the Secretary of State via the Planning Inspectorate, which overruled the decision of Tower Hamlets and granted permission for the development in October 2014. The chair of Swan Housing Association, Valerie Owen OBE also serves on the board of the Planning Inspectorate.

John Cooper Clarke, Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs and BBC talent show The Voice, BBC radio DJ Jo Whiley, Peaches Geldof, indie band The Guillemots, Olympian Tom Daley, and filmmaker Dustin Lance Black have all supported Forster's ongoing campaign. Music charity Music Heritage UK also backed the campaign.

Forster appealed the decision of the Planning Inspectorate at the High Court and lost, but won the right to appeal at an oral hearing before the Court of Appeal, scheduled for October 2016.

Replacing the Property development dispute
The above section is the original Property development dispute in this article. I intend to replace this long section with a brief mention of the dispute here, and put the details in the Pauline Forster article. I am doing this replacement while doing copyediting of the rest of the article.--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:11, 5 May 2016 (UTC)