Billions pledged to transform Barking into 'mini-Manhattan'

16th March 2018

Barking and Dagenham Council has unveiled a £2bn plan to transform the east London town into a "mini-Manhattan", with 6,000 homes, skyscrapers and five acres of green space dubbed "Central Bark". Council leader Darren Rodwell said: "The fact is we led London and the country on new-build 100 years ago with the Becontree estate, which everyone else followed. That's what we are going to do again now."

Evening Standard (14/03/2018)