Last year, architects drew up plans featuring more than 4,000 homes, shops, schools and open space
(Picture: Barking & Dagenham Council)The Eva Hart pub is a landmark on Chadwell Heath High Road. It was named in honour of a local woman who survived the Titanic disaster which is oddly appropriate because even a quick walk around this deepest east London neighbourhood produces a distinct sinking feeling.
Discount stores, betting shops, greasy spoons. A decade after work on Crossrail — a project predicated on its ability to inspire regeneration across a swathe of the capital — began Chadwell Health is looking rather tired.
