At Royal Eden Docks 854 new homes are being built beside the ExCel conference centre
(Picture: Mount Anvil)The real beneficiary of this new Crossrail station will be the Royal Docks, just to the south, which are shaping up as one of the most exciting regeneration projects in London.
The streets immediately around Custom House station — named in honour of the long-gone offices used for the collection of customs fees from ships entering London’s docks — are a slightly depressing patchwork of dated apartment blocks thrown up late in the last century, and equally dreary social housing built a few decades earlier.
