Results tagged “Commercial Road”
By Cllr Tim Archer
In a fast-changing area like Tower Hamlets it is imperative that what little heritage we've got left is cared for and preserved.
So it's especially disappointing that the Grade II listed Limehouse Library on the Commercial Road is being left to rot. I am heartbroken by its shocking state of disrepair.
By Tim Archer
What's more important homes or cars? Despite a housing waiting list of 23,000 people, Tower Hamlets Council is buying a prime piece of land on the Commercial Road near Limehouse DLR station, not for building new homes but for creating a new car pound - somewhere to take cars that get towed away for being parked illegally.
When I first arrived in east London, I never expected that I’d ever find myself in need of a snowplough.
But, as the winter months closed in for the first time, I realised how naive I was.
A teenager was stabbed in the lung as he left a peace convention at the Excel centre.
The attack outside the Global Peace and Unity event was one of two reported stabbings at the weekend, which also saw a man bundled into a car and attacked in a brutal robbery on Commercial Road.
