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Wharfers face more travel problems this weekend when the DLR shuts for engineering work.
The line between Canary Wharf and Lewisham will be suspended on Saturday, while the Poplar/Westferry to Lewisham route will be closed on Sunday.
In the second of a two-part series, The Wharf talks to recruitment agency Formula One about successfully returning to the UK workforce after spending time abroad.
For more information about the agency, go to formula-won.co.uk
In the first of a two-part series, The Wharf talks to recruitment agency Formula Won about finding your perfect job abroad - and slotting back into the UK workforce on your return.
It's the only school on the Canary Wharf estate and one of very few with its playground on a quay, but now River House Montessori is leaving.
The school, which has gone from four children to 175 in 14 years, has outgrown its facilities in Heron Quay and in early March will head to a site at Millharbour.
CANARY Wharf Group may have to pay a little more to see its dreams of a hotel to the west of the estate come true.
Planners dealt an unexpected blow to subsidiary South Quay Properties' vision for the 37-storey Newfoundland development at a meeting on Thursday night, opting to defer the application in a bid to secure more financial contributions for the surrounding area.
The bid for Newfoundland, which would feature 150 hotel rooms, attracted no objections during the consultation process.
PLANS for a new hotel on the western end of the estate could be cleared for construction today (Thursday).
Canary Wharf Group is keen to re-develop the car parking area next to Heron Quays and have had plans for a 150-bedroom hotel with 78 serviced apartments drawn up.
Its application is due to be considered by Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic development committee later this evening.
No objections to the proposal have been filed, either by planning officers or by local residents.
A MOTORIST had a lucky escape after a roundabout crash at Heron Quays sent his car flipping into the air.
The man was driving a grey Vauxhall Astra around the Heron Quays roundabout at about 10.15am on Friday (February 29) when he was involved in a collision with a black Mercedes S320. Officers at the scene reported that when the cars collided the Vauxhall clipped the kerb, flipped into the air and landed at the mouth of the Marsh Wall junction.
The black car, driven by a man in his fifties, had moved off from the junction on Heron Quays. The driver of the Astra, a man in his twenties, suffered only minor injuries, but was taken to hospital as a precaution.
A PAIR of towering developments on either side of Canary Wharf have edged closer to reality.
Global fast food giant McDonald’s has submitted full plans for its joint residential project on Trafalgar Way following two exhibitions last year.
The 397-unit two tower project is being developed on the eaterie’s current site in conjunction with Trafalgar Way Ltd, and will feature buildings of 29 and 36 storeys.
Negotiations to the west of the Wharf are also continuing between Tower Hamlets council and Canary Wharf Group (CWG).
The estate landowner has provided extra environmental information for its three-tower Heron Quays West scheme, which was filed with the council in November.
Further details were requested last month on how developers would minimise the impact of construction. The finished building would house retail and office space in towers of 12, 21 and 33 storeys.
