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Housing scheme launch exposes desperate need

Phoenix Community Housing Co-Op Members and Volunteers Pic: Adelle Kalakouti

Nine long-term empty flats in Tower Hamlets are now being used as short-term lets for people in need of housing following a project run by the Phoenix Community Co-operative and Poplar HARCA. (more…)

Locals voice opinion on tower block [VIDEO]

Pic: Open Dalston Blog

This week EastLondonLines reported on proposals for an 18-storey tower block on Kingsland High Street. We visited the area to find out what people who live and work in the area think of the planning application and what they see as the impact it will have on the area. (more…)

Last chance for locals to oppose 18-storey tower

Pic: Nico Hogg, Flickr

Local residents have a week to make comments about a proposed application for planning permission for an 18-story residential tower on Kingsland High Street, next to Dalston Kingsland overground station. (more…)

Cooperative to reuse empty homes

Teviot estate could soon have new residents, Pic; Loop Zilla

A housing association in Bow is to bring long-term empty homes back into use for people in urgent need of housing. (more…)

Tower Hamlets and Lewisham secure awards for urban planning and design

MacMillian Park, Pic; GLA

East London has once again been recognised for its contribution to making London a great place to live in, after scooping two awards in Tower Hamlets and Lewisham at the ninth annual London Planning Awards.

St Paul’s Way Trust School in Tower Hamlets and the Margaret McMillan Park in Lewisham were both awarded for their excellence in urban planning and design. (more…)

New affordable housing for Blackwell Reach

Blackwall Reach pic: HCAA new project aims to build 1,700 flats to replace 214 existing homes at Blackwall Reach, 700 of which will be homes for social rent and shared ownership. (more…)

Housing benefit changes to put East End residents under increasing pressure to make ends meet

pic: Willie Duffin

Thousands of east London residents receiving housing benefit could be forced to choose between cutting food and transport bills to pay rent or leaving their homes in search of cheaper accommodation, research suggests.

Findings by the Chartered Institute of Housing published this week show that cuts in Local Housing Allowance will mean that, for the first time in the UK, there will be more people on benefits searching for affordable homes than the market currently provides.

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Lewisham Mayor Steve Bullock tells us his predictions for 2012

Steve Bullock with the Lewisham Young Mayors in October pic: Sea Jung Ra

In 2012, Steve Bullock, one of the country’s first elected mayors, will enter his tenth year as the Mayor for Lewisham.

Over the last year, the borough has been affected by the riots in August, suffered dramatic surges in knife crime and gang violence and now many of its residents will face the risk of eviction from their homes in the New Year.

EastLondonLines interviewed Mayor Steve Bullock to find out what he feels will be the most pressing issues of 2012. We asked our readers to tell us what questions they want to be answered via Twitter. (more…)

House prices soar above the national average

Riverside Close beside the River Lea pic: Flickr- Bunch & Duke

Hackney housing is the fifth most expensive in the country as the price of a home in the borough soars to over double the national average, research has found. (more…)

Council support residents in development fight

Virginia Quay residents - pic: Aaron Lee

Residents opposing a 12 story residential development in the Docklands have been backed by Tower Hamlets Council.

Over 650 Virginia Quay residents, of 1000, rejected a proposed 12-storey tower block at Newport Avenue, which is currently under the jurisdiction of London Thames Gateway Development Corporation. (more…)

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