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It has been a huge success but the days of the East London Business Place are numbered.

The free advice and networking service was set up in April last year to help small and medium sized enterprises win contracts and create relationships between suppliers and buyers.

A community of up to 26,000 people is on the way in Barking.

The 150-hectare Barking Riverside project is one of the key developments in the Thames Gateway, which will undergo its annual progress check at the Excel centre later this month.

A GREEN boating community could soon be sharing space with the birds in East India Dock Basin.

The bird sanctuary near Trinity Buoy Wharf has been suggested as a home for 48 boats, which could draw almost all of their energy from wind and water power.

A committee of 10 present and past Poplar Dock boat owners is behind the plan for the new mooring, which they hope to run as a co-operative.

Committee chairman Rod Taylor said: “The idea is to use half of the water space. Wildlife, fish and birds all co-exist with boaters in Poplar Dock, and we think the introduction of a green marina will encourage an ecosystem to grow.�

A NEW developer for the £2.7billion Canning Town and Custom House regeneration project could be in place by the end of the year.

The government's Thames Gateway team are interviewing five consortiums clamouring for the vacant spaces on the East London building project, which could bring 11,000 new homes to the deprived area.

The ambitious three-phase project is scheduled to begin this year, with a 2022 completion date. The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation claims the scheme is still on track, despite the withdrawal of developers Lend Lease and housebuilder Taylor Wimpey in January.

DOCKLANDS businesses enjoyed an afternoon of networking.

The Ramada’s Docklands hotel played host to a lunchtime get-together of Docklands Business Club members last Wednesday (February 13).

Members were gearing up for the next major business club event, which sees new Thames Gateway figurehead Peter Andrews spill the beans on plans for Canning Town and Custom House.