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Redevelopment of the City Pride site could be back on the agenda after the site was sold.

However, mystery surrounds just who has bought the pub site in Westferry Road, along with a linked site at Island Point at the southern end of the Isle of Dogs.

The long-awaited redevelopment of the Greenwich Peninsula is set to start after the Olympic Games after the next phase of building was announced today.

Boris Johnson was on the Peninsula this morning to see plans for 1,300 new homes and 600 student dwellings which could be built later this year.

A shortlist of seven companies are battling to win the contract to redevelop part of the Royal Docks.

The London Development Agency and Newham Council have invited the companies to submit their outline proposals for the 50-acre Silvertown Quays site before deciding on a preferred developer next March.

The Notting Hill Housing Trust has been chosen by the London Development Agency to carry out the Gallions Quarter development in the Royal Docks.

The appoointment, which is subject to contract, will see a mixed used centre built in the Albert Basin area, featuring around 700 new homes and 50,000 sq ft of retail and community space.

It's not very common for bosses to be loved by their employees, but a celebration of the life of Reg Ward proved the exception to that rule.

Mr Ward, the first chief executive of the London Docklands Development Corporation, was remembered at a gathering of friends, family and colleagues at an event in Canary Wharf last night.

The redevelopment of the City Pride pub has been thrown into doubt after Irish property company Glenkerrin went into receivership.

The popular Canary Wharf pub was earmarked for demolition after Glenkerrin received planning approval two years ago to build a 62 storey tower on the land.

A few weeks back, Kitty McLaughlin (pictured) was working on one of her paintings when a group of children burst in.

Sounds like the start of a story about teen crime, doesn't it? Not at Atelier Court, a Poplar development where artist studios and homes sit side by side.

When the £1.5billion Silvertown Quays scheme was approved in 2007, the London Development Agency said it would "bring new life to this part of the old docks".

Last month, it declared the current vision dead. So where does this leave Royal Docks?

Plans to put five-a-side football pitches in an Isle of Dogs car park have been dismissed.

Tower Hamlets Council has rejected Powerleague's bid to install five pitches in the NCP multi-storey in Selsdon Way, citing concerns over noise and light pollution.

Horseferry Road residents have been told they now live in a "car-free" development - even though they've been given permits for eight years.

Occupants have learned that they are not entitled to cars under the building's planning agreement, a fact they say was not mentioned when they moved in nearly a decade ago.

National five-a-side football specialist Powerleague wants to build pitches at the top of a Crossharbour car park.

Tower Hamlets Council is due to decide tonight (Wednesday) whether to clear its plan for five flood-lit all-weather pitches on the upper levels of Selsdon Way's 500-space NCP multi-storey.

Canary Wharf Group has secured the One Park Place site near Westferry Circus for £17.5million.

The estate landlord picked up the long leasehold interests from receivers acting for Park Place SARL last week, after several years of interest.

The Wharf was at City Hall as Crossrail bosses briefed the London Assembly

Your average Londoner can bang on about transport for hours, sometimes even with good reason.

When 10am rolled around at City Hall, snow jitters had stripped the London Assembly's transport committee down to a skeleton crew.

West India Dock will be partially drained in the next few weeks as Crossrail construction continues in Canary Wharf.

Piling has now been completed at the site known as Adams Place, and Crossrail has claimed work is "proceeding to schedule" as the £16billion project enters 2010.

Plans for a 305-bedroom hotel in Marsh Wall have failed to impress Tower Hamlets Council.

The authority's Strategic Development Committee refused to grant planning permission for the 39-storey tower at 40 Marsh Wall this week, citing concerns over its size.

Will this 305-bedroom hotel be cleared to spring up directly opposite the Britannia International Hotel?

Applicant Marsh Wall Chelsea LLP will learn next week if Tower Hamlets Council approves its design for a "boutique" hotel at 40 Marsh Wall.

Tower Hamlets Council has warned its overspend for the year could approach £8million.

At a meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny committee last night, officers predicted a general fund overspend of £3.74million and a housing overspend of as much as £4million, based on spending up to September.

Tower Hamlets Council saw Canary Wharf Group's contribution to a training centre as a "driving factor" in its decision to force occupiers off land at Heron Quays, an inquiry heard.

Documents referenced last week indicate officers described the money as "the key rationale" behind its decision to clear the way for CWG's Heron Quays West scheme.

News International's plans to re-develop its Wapping headquarters have been approved by Tower Hamlets Council.

An earlier scheme to remodel the existing print works and Rum Warehouse in Virginia Street was rejected by the Strategic Development Committee in June, but a revised version was cleared on Tuesday night.

Heron Quays leaseholder Michael Gross will tell an enquiry this week that he was "deceived" by Canary Wharf Group during talks for his stake.

Mr Gross is one of two leaseholders who pushed for a public enquiry after they were served with a compulsory purchase order by Tower Hamlets Council last year.