A fire at a building awaiting cladding remediation claimed the life of a man at the weekend. What do we know about this blaze, and what do we still need to know? PLUS - thoughts on the new PAS 9980

A developer behind an 835-home Isle of Dogs tower wants to cut its affordable housing contribution to Tower Hamlets Council by around £35m.

PLANS for a new housing union, complete with rent strikes and legal advocacy, will be launched at TUC Congress tomorrow.Volunteers at the Social Housing Action Campaign (SHAC) will present their 70-pa...

Plans for 203 council homes at Battersea Power Station have been approved.

James Butler speaks to a Balfron Tower evictee about social cleansing and mistreatment by Tower Hamlets council

Fix the housing crisis – Protest 🗓️ Wednesday 9 September, 12pm – 2pm📍 Parliament Square, Westminster, London Burnham’s backtracking on council house builds and the funding share from the Affordable H...

By Olivia Virag An Ordinary Question When I moved into my shared ownership home in July 2020, I wasn’t looking for a campaign or preparing for a legal dispute. Like most people, I simply want…

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‘These flats were designed for ordinary working people’

The Teviot Estate is to be mostly demolished (535 units), replaced by 1,928 units over the next 17 years. We will monitor progress and try to ensure fairness. Click to read Teviot Watch, a Substack pu...

︎︎︎R-Urban Poplar is an ecology hub on the edge of the Teviot estate, in Poplar, London. Since 2017 we have transformed a disused car park...

Investigation continues after the roof façades of two houses collapsed on Woodland Terrace.

In July 2025, Tower Hamlets Council’s Strategic Development Committee approved the hybrid planning application, allowing Poplar HARCA and their developer The Hill Group to demolish 535 homes on the Te...

Phase 2 forms part of the “outline” element of the masterplan (only Phase 1a, is set out in detail in the approved planning application).

Phase 1b is does not include any new housing or housing demolitions, it is “improvements” to the existing Langdon Park.

The Teviot Estate is to be mostly demolished (535 units), replaced by 1,928 units over the next 17 years. We will monitor progress and try to ensure fairness.

Monitoring London estates under threat of demolition.

Knocking down defunct structures sends a wrecking ball through carbon targets, architects say.