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I think the lower Lea/Lee is considered navigable, so that footbridge to Canning Town needs to be a swing bridge, doesn't look like it in the brochure.

Considering what a multicultural city this is these days, seems suspicious that I couldn't see a single black face in the brochure...
It's not just Ballymore who are selling abroad but every major developer in London is doing the same thing including some of the bigger Housing Associations. Meanwhile none of them are making sufficient profits to allow the appropriate level of social housing to be provided or that's what they tell planners anyway.
I seem to recall that when Ken Livingstone was Mayor he was trying to get new housing developments to include up to 50% social housing.
I do not think it was successful idea.
Developers did not want to build as they knew that rich buyers would not want to have the "lower classes" living on their estate.
It does seem strange that now we have apartments being built at many sites in London, all unaffordable by most of London's workers, and being advertised to foreign market buyers as investment opportunity's.
Perhaps we shall revert to a system as in Victorian times, when rich owners have "servants" quarters, where the workers will stay
Alternatively we might get some politicians that realise we need to spend public money and to force developers to build homes with affordable rents. If someone does not sort this out then London will start to decline as the city will be completely unaffordable for people on average or below earnings. The city relies on these people to function and it is a nonsense to preside over housing market failure. None of this is rocket science and London has managed to build large numbers of private and public housing in the past - why is it apparently so difficult now?
Presumably if you're not in London it's much more difficult to work out that you're buying an isolated scrap of wasteland
With PC on this one. It's going to take a lot of political will and enforcement to get any affordable housing built in London (or anywhere?) when the top end of the market is so much more obviously profitable.
Bizarre naming decision. You can almost imagine the brainstorming:

"What shall we call our new development, guys?"
"Well...it's not in the City, and it isn't and island, but bear with me here..."
When I first moved to London and lived on the Isle of Dogs, I walked past here one day, checked out Trinity Buoy Wharf , and then over the Lower Lea bridge to check out Royal Victoria Docks. It's quite a grim little spot, while it is surrounded by water, it's also got elevated trunk roads and rail lines on all sides as well. Can't imagine it'd be that tranquil to have the rumble of traffic running by 24 hours a day.
Ballymore is one of the biggest of the 20 or more shyster property developers who were responsible for the Irish banking disaster, which has cost the taxpayer (people like me) upwards of 70 billion (that's BILLION) euros. See these:
http://www.independent.ie
http://www.irishexaminer.com
http://www.eamonn.com

With a track record like this, whoever is now financing an overblown development like this one probably needs their heads examining.
It's a masterstroke advertising it to East Asians. They're used to the very features that would make the site offputting for most Londoners, and they're used to focusing on the insides of buildings to compensate for the environmental grimness outside. Those flats better be well specified.
More Appartments? The last thing we need. Whatever happened to nice houses with gardens?
There's a good history of the area here
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=46544

Surely the biggest attraction of a development on the Goodluck Hope peninsula is that it's only a short walk from Cody Dock! And more seriously, the Eco park on the next peninsula. Has anyone been down there lately? I assume the walk from the park and Wharfside Road to Canning Town is still shut behind locked gates?
The problem here is surely that the planners aren't specifying a certain percentage of social/affordable/shared ownership housing, as well as certain facilities (doctors, schools etc etc) to be provided within each development proposal.

They seem to do this in the areas of which I have experience (home counties, west country).

So what goes wrong in London? (and don't say the colour of the responsible planning authority as counties do tend to be True Blue).
The brochure is comedy gold.

"With the biggest concentration of artists in Europe, east London's streetscapes are an ever changing kaleidoscope of colour."

"The neighbourhood will be woven into the vibrant creative and commercial economies of east London."

"Think of the sense of identity that beams out of Manhattan in New York, or Venice in Italy."

What next? Creekmouth is the new Hoxton?
Does the brochure mention the delights of pollution and noise of larger aircraft buzzing past the windows if/when Newham allow City Airport to expand next year.
I see that they plan many Gingko trees. I grew up on a Washington DC street with these trees and hope that Balymore is smart enough to plant only male trees. The female trees bear a lot of fruit each fall, and all ripe Gingko fruit smells like vomit. It carpets the pavement and your shoes squash them and bring the smell into your house. You have been warned!
The practice of selling property before it's built is getting widerspread. Only if enough buyers hand over cash will anything be built at all (apart from the token poles in the ground). That way the developers do not have to risk their own money.
I am in hong kong at the moment and just saw a tv ad on the bbc world news asia version for this development with a showcase meeting at the mandarin oriental until sunday
I was always rather fond of Trinity Buoy Wharf, because of its history, scientific significance, and isolation. What happens to the Container City development if this effort goes ahead? NB: if may be that it's already gone; it's 5 years since I moved out of London, so I'm a little behind on such things.
Rest assured that Trinity Buoy Wharf (and Container City) are on another part of the peninsula, closer to the Thames, and are still going strong.
Why are most of the products in the Grocery Store on shelves that are out of reach ?

Are they trying to tell us something subliminally ? Concentrate on trying to attain something that is out of reach and you may not notice the smell from the low tidal mud ?
Why are most of the products in the Grocery Store on shelves that are out of reach ?

Are they trying to tell us something subliminally ? Concentrate on trying to attain something that is out of reach and you may not notice the smell from the low tidal mud ?










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