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Sounds an ideal place for the government to acquire to house the cross channel boat people. How big is it in terms of, say, number of bedrooms? Frankly, I truly wonder why anyone, whatever their circumstances, really wants to live in a place such as you have described.

J. | 04.12.21 - 7:42 a.m. | #

And until it is finished it is still an enormous building site. Having passed through it on the Capital Ring and more recently the Green London Way it is a nightmare and a place you want to get away from it as soon as you can. Close by the most windswept and desolate part of the Capital Ring adds to the atmosphere. But yes, the Gallions Hotel is nice.

davews | 04.12.21 - 8:34 a.m. | #

I had to laugh at this:

“This location is ********, tranquil and vibrant all at the same time.”

I would have thought the two are mutually exclusive, but let’s not let that spoil the developer-speak.

Stephen | 04.12.21 - 8:50 a.m. | #

'Stacky brick vernacular'. What an effective and distinctively DG description. The second unique word introduced by this blog in a week, if I'm not mistaken.

dg writes: You are mistaken.

Rod | 04.12.21 - 8:50 a.m. | #

Little boxes on the riverside
Little boxes all the same

Neither tranquil nor vibrant. The apartments look like they belong in Soviet Russia or East Germany, in their unadorned and brutally uniform utility. The slums of the future? Perhaps in 50 or 100 years some people will be campaigning to preserve them, but I doubt it.

Andrew | 04.12.21 - 9:06 a.m. | #

"work rest play" is really grating without a comma but looks like an attempt to avoid trademark UK00906360028 filed by Mars Wrigley Confectionery UK Ltd.
A bit stupid 'cos it only applies to food and beverages.

Martin'O'Holcombe | 04.12.21 - 9:23 a.m. | #

The play area seems to say "move before your firstborn reaches age 2".

MilesT | 04.12.21 - 9:43 a.m. | #

“No other residential site is closer to the City Airport flight path”

Well, there you go: It’s unique and vibrant! And tranquil during non-flight hours.

commonliner | 04.12.21 - 9:46 a.m. | #

Having just Capital Ringed that section I remember hearing that the Gallion's Reach Hotel was where the Victorians stayed before embarking on their steamboat journey to (mostly) the America's.

Cornish Cockney | 04.12.21 - 9:51 a.m. | #

In 50 years time they will be looking at all these identikit blocks and be asking what were the developers thinking when they built these!

Andrew Jarman | 04.12.21 - 10:35 a.m. | #

Other examples of "a thin line between sharp marketing and warping the truth" spill out of Downing Street daily. What about 40 new hospitals, then?

Tim W. | 04.12.21 - 10:46 a.m. | #

Ah, this could be one of those "truly unique" locations which is virtually identical to dozens of others.

cau1khead | 04.12.21 - 11:15 a.m. | #

Not sure it’ll take 50 years to wonder about developers’s motives, Andrew.... Highest possible density + smallest allowable square footage = maximum profit! Of course, it’s not just Newham that gets blighted by the utterly pedestrian, bland ‘holes punched in a blank wall’ style of architecture — the new canalside development in the middle of Camden Town is exactly the same, except that the developers used darker bricks “to reflect the area’s industrial heritage”. Still the same tiny boxes, though.

Labourer | 04.12.21 - 11:19 a.m. | #

All negatives won't matter to the overseas buyers who are just investing and will probably never live there themselves.

mikeH | 04.12.21 - 11:42 a.m. | #

I'd seen the first couple of photos before starting on the text. I could've sworn it was going to be a piece about the blocks and streets being put up around the QEOP Velodrome, which also have a similar uniqueness.

RogerW | 04.12.21 - 12:27 p.m. | #

The building known as Gallions Hotel now includes a bar and restaurant called for some reason Galyons. Apart from a pumping station it is practically the only historic building remaining (at least that I could see on a couple of recent walks around the area).

JohnC | 04.12.21 - 8:37 p.m. | #

I was expecting to see the usual "luxury apart-ments" description. A misnomer if ever, as they should be "together-ments". A new word for your vocabulary?

Nick K | 05.12.21 - 8:32 a.m. | #

I don't think the Capital Ring passes through Royal Albert Wharf yet, officially, as signage still points along Armada Way and Atlantis Avenue. However, a much more attractive route through the Wharf area is described in my guidebook. Hopefully, the London Borough of Newham will catch up before too long.

Colin Saunders | Homepage | 05.12.21 - 11:05 a.m. | #

For several years this was the site of one of Crisis at Christmas's largest centres, which was certainly unique and lively.

Most notable as the place where Ed Sheeran met the A of 'A Team' that shot him to success.

Lux | 05.12.21 - 7:33 p.m. | #











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