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Tower Hamlets Council may have to claw £13million out of reserves to keep the regeneration of the Robin Hood Gardens site on course.
Cabinet members will be told next Wednesday (July 1) that the council has "insufficient capital resources" to continue buying-out homes on the Poplar estate without the transfer.
The Government is to stand by its original decision not to list Robin Hood Gardens.
The brutalist housing estate is now clear to make way for the Blackwall Reach project after an appeal by the Twentieth Century Society was dismissed this week.
The War of words is still raging over the future of Poplar's Robin Hood Gardens estate.
But the Government remains tight-lipped on whether it will reverse its decision not to list the brutalist building.
ROBIN Hood Gardens will soon be removed from the Poplar skyline, following the Government's decision not to list the estate last week.
The 214-unit landmark will make way for English Partnerships' Blackwall Reach scheme, which will feature up to 3,000 new homes.
In a special extended report for wharf.co.uk, we look at what the future holds for residents of the 1970s brutalist building, and what plans are on the table to find new homes for the people at the centre of the debate.
