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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

New town the size of Winchester gets planning permission in east London to tackle housing crisis

A huge “new town” in east London has been given the green light in a bid to tackle the capital’s housing crisis.

Barking and Dagenham council last night signed off plans to expand the Barking Riverside development to 20,000 homes.

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