Famous for her sloppy, unmade bed exhibited at Tate Britain, Tracey Emin is now embroiled in a messier dispute over her plan to demolish a listed building in the East End of London.

One of the leading members of the Young British Artists movement, Emin is working on a regeneration project of a 1920s locally listed building that she owns in Spitalfields.

The release of the plans at the end of last week provoked a strong response from the East End Preservation Society and Save Britain’s Heritage, a pressure group that has been campaigning on behalf of historic buildings since