Barking and Dagenham’s regeneration company Be First has announced its sponsorship of Barking and Dagenham Cycling Club as part of its drive to improve the life chances and opportunities of local people. Be First, has backed the club with £6,000 to help get more young people into cycling. Pat Hayes, Managing Director of Be First, …
New images and plans have been released by Be First of the first stages of a re-developed Barking town centre – recently dubbed mini-Manhattan. The plans feature 400 new affordable and shared ownership homes as well as private rental, in two sky scrapers which will replace a run-down tower block, Crown House in Cambridge Road. …
Plans, backed by Turner prize winner Grayson Perry, to build innovative and affordable homes for artists in Barking have been given the green light. The proposal for the £3.5 million ‘artists’ house’ has been developed by Be First, Barking and Dagenham Council’s pioneering regeneration company, together with partners Create London. It will see 12 below …
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A row of seven houses for local people will be built on a former site of garages in Barking after councillors gave the green light to plans from Be First at a town hall planning committee this week. The development in Wivenhoe Road, Barking, will feature five two-bedroom houses and two three-bedroom houses. Jennie Coombs, …
A statue of Jesus at a former convent in Dagenham has found a new home in Southend this week after an agreement between The Sacred Heart Church in the seaside town and Be First, Barking and Dagenham Council’s pioneering regeneration company. The celestial move will allow Be First to develop the former Sacred Heart Convent …
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