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A group of five historic barges are to be converted into restaurants and residential units for the Docklands area.

British Waterways has brought the Spits Barges from the Netherlands to help draw office workers to the water.

Detailed plans are beginning to emerge for the buildings that will make up the large mixed-use Wood Wharf scheme to the east of Canary Wharf.

Applications for the first two buildings in the seven hectare scheme have now been submitted to Tower Hamlets Council. The full scheme received outline permission last year.

Citybunker has become the latest venue to close its doors during the downturn.

Baliffs marched into the Cannon Workshops bar and padlocked the doors after operator Kar Ventures defaulted on rent payments.

A RECORD £153million will be pumped into Docklands if planners give the green-light to Wood Wharf – including £118million for transport alone.

A YACHT hotel larger than One Churchill Place could be moving into South Dock.

Developer Aquiva is hoping to revive its three-year-old plan to base a 170-metre floating hotel next to Canary Wharf, providing 180 cabins for high-end corporate users.

A PIN-CUSHION of gleaming towers may not seem like an ideal home for wildlife.

But birds, insects and even mammals are increasingly joining bankers and builders in making a home in the Wharf.