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The government has accepted it acted unlawfully in a legal battle with Tower Hamlets Council over plans for the former Westferry Printworks on the Isle of Dogs. In January, plans to build 1,524 homes on the site were approved by Secretary of State Robert Jenrick despite a planning inspector recommending against granting permission. In March, the council initiated legal action ...

New statistics released by City Hall last week (14th May) show that 1,562 affordable homes were completed in Tower Hamlets as part of GLA housing programmes in the year ending 31st March 2020, the highest level of any London borough. Throughout the same period, 758 new affordable homes were also started in the borough. The new figures also show that over 500 ...

  Planners from Tower Hamlets Council have been named as the local authority planning team of the year at a leading national awards contest. The council’s infrastructure planning team took the top prize at the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Planning Excellence. Their colleagues in the plan making team were commended for excellence in plan making for their ...

  Tower Hamlets Council has delivered more than 150,000 items of personal protective equipment (PPE) to safeguard residents, frontline staff such as care workers, and maintain essential services. Yesterday (Thursday 7 May) Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, visited the council’s PPE distribution unit to help supply PPE to frontline council staff, external service providers and individuals with caring responsibilities. ...

Bangladesh envoy Tasneem sees them off at Heathrow Airport A total of 114 Bangladesh citizens, mostly students, arrived here on Monday morning from London, the United Kingdom (UK). They were stranded in the UK since suspension of international flights between Dhaka and London in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines special chartered flight – BG 4041 – ...

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has called on the supermarket chain Iceland to join the Government’s Free School Meal voucher scheme, which supports low-income families during the pandemic whilst schools are closed. The Mayor is backing a campaign from ‘Shadwell Responds’, a non-party political community-led response group to the Coronavirus crisis working on behalf of community organisations across ...

4th May 2020 marks the 42nd anniversary of Altab Ali Day, held to commemorate the racist murder of Altab Ali, a 25-year-old Bengali leather garments worker, in East London.  It recalls the transformative year of 1978, when the local Bengali community mobilised in an unprecedented, anti-racist uprising. Their actions represented a turning point in local and national resistance against racial harassment and ...

        100 years old Dabirul Choudhury has raised funds more than 4 times for coronavirus victims. 100 years old Dabirul Choudhury will continue to walk to raise funds for coronavirus victims. 100 Years Old Dabirul Choudhury will not give up on humanity and will walk to raise funds for coronavirus victims. Mr Dabirul Islam Choudhury, a 100 years old London resident, made a pledge to raise £1,000 on Sunday ...

The annual Altab Ali Day is on Monday 4 May. Unfortunately, this year due to Corona outbreak we will not be holding any public commemoration of Altab Ali at Altab Ali Park, Adler Street, Whitechapel. We are requesting everybody to remember the racist killing of Altab Ali in your own way as the annual commemoration of the Altab Ali Day ...

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested more than 4,000 people for domestic abuse since the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of coronavirus were introduced, the force said in a statement Friday. “The COVID-19 restrictions and ‘stay at home’ instruction is vital to managing this public health crisis, but unfortunately it has also left current and potential victims of domestic abuse even ...