December 2018

Plans for films made in Dagenham took another step towards reality this week when the preferred bidders to build what will be London’s largest studios visited the site to meet the leader of Barking and Dagenham Council.  Cllr Darren Rodwell met with Dana Arnold, Chief Executive Officer of Pacifica Ventures and Sasha Shapiro, Managing Director […]

Five famous east London women have been honoured after their images painted by Barking school children went up on hoardings by their school. The paintings of entertainers Dame Vera Lynn, who was from East Ham and lived in Dagenham, Sandie Shaw, who hailed from Dagenham, former Barking MP, Jo Richardson, Humanitarian Elizabeth Fry, who lived in

Be First, Barking and Dagenham Council’s pioneering regeneration company, has named the four construction companies that will join its new Development Framework, Lot 1 for projects up to £20 million. They are: J.Murphy & Sons Ltd Jerram Falkus Construction Ltd Mulalley & Company Ltd United Living (South) Ltd Iain Ferguson, Commercial Director at Be First,

Permission was granted for more than 200 new homes in Barking and Dagenham at planning committee last night (10 December 2018). Councillors approved three very different schemes proposed by Be First, the borough’s pioneering regeneration company, each set to provide affordable homes for local people. The first project, planned for the site of the old