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Commercial Road flat damaged in Whitechapel blaze

A child and two men suffered from smoke inhalation in a Stamford Hill flat fire on Friday evening (November 19).

London Live

Sally Patterson

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A flat fire broke out in Whitechapel early this morning (November 24), with one person suffering from smoke inhalation.
Scheme for 15,000 new homes on Isle of Dogs' former Westferry printworks. Picture: Mace developers

Westferry Printworks controversy: Development refused in new ruling

Ben Lynch

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Modest street in Bethnal Green where houses now fetch £1m-plus on property market

Flat going for £2.5m in Bethnal Green as property prices hit the roof

Mike Brooke

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Deciding which way for Aberfeldy rejuvenation

Planning and Development

Masterplan for 1,600 new homes hopes for council green light

Mike Brooke

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Leaside Lock... flats being marketed

Shared ownership homes at new Lea riverside housing

Mike Brooke

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Presenters Johnny Vaughan and Liza Tarbuck in the garden of the Big Breakfast House in east London

Want to live like a star? House used as TV set goes on sale

Alastair Lockhart, LDRS

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Blackwall Reach in the near future

Housing News

Go-ahead given for 315 more homes in third stage of Blackwall Reach scheme

Mike Brooke

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Harbord Square development at Wood Wharf

Housing News

Luxury Canary Wharf flats going for lower rent set by the council

Mike Brooke

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Tower block on Montieth housing estate deemed structurally unsafe

Housing News

Why some families can't leave Bow's 'dangerous structure' tower block

Mike Brooke

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Cllr Danny Hassell... on site where demolished lock-ups have made way for council housing

Tower Hamlets Council

Lock-up garage space in Spitalfields used for social housing

Mike Brooke

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The front of a terraced house in Grove Hill, South Woodford

The most expensive houses sold in your east London borough in August

Andrew Brookes

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Pointing the way... mayor pushing for more council house building

Housing News

More council social-rent homes for East End with City Hall cash

Mike Brooke

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Clare House  in Bow... now deemed structurally unsafe

Housing News

Families start moving out of unsafe tower block in Bow

Mike Brooke

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Dangerous structure... 22-storey Clare House in Bow being evacuated

Housing News

Police called as furious families told to quit Bow's 'dangerous' block

Mike Brooke

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2021 Teviot festival staged by Poplar Harca

Families tell developers what's needed on Poplar's Teviot estate at fun day

Mike Brooke

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Coffee morning in historic Albert Gardens in aid of Macmillan Nurses charity

Contractors host Macmillan Coffee Morning before Stepney restorations begin

Mike Brooke

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Ashmore House... riddled with ants on six floors

Red ants invade all six floors of Bromley-by-Bow block of flats

Mike Brooke

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Pensioner Rita Cooper and daughter Jolene to be shifted when Barkantine estate is redeveloped

Planning and Development

Housing group gets go-ahead from residents to redevelop Isle of Dogs estate

Mike Brooke

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Poplar's new Barchester Court built by Canary Wharf Group for Tower Hamlets Council

Social rent council homes completed by Canary Wharf

Mike Brooke

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Cllr Golds... One Housing tenants and leaseholders fear merger will make estates more remote

Housing News

Call to halt merger involving Isle of Dogs social landlord

Mike Brooke

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Squash being played on the opening day of the Britannia Leisure Centre in Hackney. 

Britannia Leisure Centre and the changing face of Shoreditch Park

Holly Chant

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Which way to go... youngsters decide future of Poplar's Aberfeldy redevelopment.

'Aberfeldy hero' pupils tell planners what Poplar's future should be

Mike Brooke

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Construction of Jolles House continued in Bromley-by-Bow during Covid

Housing News

Development completed during Covid to tackle East End's housing crisis

Mike Brooke

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Protest banners say it all... families in Poplar's Jura House just want to get out

'Get us out of here': Protest at possible rehousing delay of another decade

Mike Brooke

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Professional pest control and rat proofing services from Inoculand Pest Control in London

Interiors | Promotion

How to free your home of rats in 5 easy steps

Lauren Knight

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This used to be a lock-up garage... now home to a family from the housing waiting list.

Old garages turned into flats to ease Tower Hamlets waiting list

Mike Brooke

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The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

Mayoral candidates pledge to boost 'affordable' homes

Jon King

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Lawanya... left her rented room empty for six months and got bill for £2,850.

Refugee fighting £2,850 claim in lettings agency dispute

Mike Brooke

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Getting in on the ground floor buying a house in east London where people stay the longest

Here's why people stay longer in the East End despite the crime

Mike Brooke

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Canary Wharf... losing its appeal in lockdown as the place to live?

Pandemic causing flight from east London to ‘Zoom westward’ 

Mike Brooke

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