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Plans for a new urban district in London's Canary Wharf featuring 3,600 homes have been revealed. The development, called Wood Wharf, is expected to create 20,000 new jobs and be completed by 2023. It is overseen by Canary Wharf Group, which is owned by the Qatar Investment Authority - the country's sovereign wealth fund. The scheme was approved by Tower Hamlets Council in 2014, which described its design as "innovative." A spokesman for CWG said the company had been "focusing on detailed building design and managing the infrastructure requirements for a development of this scale" since then. The development will involve homes - a quarter of which will be affordable, shops, new parks, offices, a GP surgery, leisure centre and restaurant, as well as a two-form primary school for 420 children, spread over 23 acres.