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Hackney may lose out if it this plan does go ahead because a lot of building and history professionals like myself are so disgusted at the way the trustees have tried to bulldozer it through, we will no longer visit. If they had come up with a less bombastic plan, in keeping with the original aims - a museum of furniture, reflecting the history of the working classes who once lived here - instead of these big, bumptious ideas, they might have got their planning consent. The 1998 extension was a model of its kind -modern, well-thought out but courteous to the original- why the sudden change in attitude? What's gone wrong at the museum, is my question, not what's gone wrong with planning.