Nick Williams

Plans to build 95 new affordable homes on the site of a poor quality building in Upney were approved last night at Barking and Dagenham Council’s planning committee tonight (3 June).  The development at Sebastian Court, which being managed for the Council by Be First, the Council’s regeneration company, will provide a mixture of one […]

Barking and Dagenham Council’s regeneration company, Be First, will build even more council homes in the borough over the next five years than previously projected. The extra homes, detailed in its 2019 business plan, will mean Be First will build 3,088 council homes by 2024 – 880 more than the original target set by the council when the

Over 500 east London school pupils took to the streets to march against car use near their junior school today. The protest by children from Manor Junior School in Barking is part of Living Streets’ national campaign, Walk to School Week. The pupils joined the demonstration to encourage less cars around the school to combat

A stylish terrace of ‘east end’ style council homes has been delivered by Be First, Barking and Dagenham Council’s pioneering development company.   Leader of Barking and Dagenham Council, Cllr Darren Rodwell and Iain Ferguson, Commercial Director of Be First, visited the development to see how the tenants of Tarling Close, Dagenham, were settling in.  

Be First has issued a public ‘call for sites’ to anyone wishing to develop land in the borough. The Council’s regeneration company has written to over 1,000 landowners, businesses and agents to ask them to suggest sites that may be suitable for new housing or other development so that they may be considered for inclusion

Pioneering urban development company, Be First, has today confirmed the appointment of McLaren Construction to build a flagship project at the heart of Barking Town Centre (24 April 2019). The contract award, at an undisclosed value, is for the construction of 169 affordable and shared ownership homes on a former local authority car park at

Work to build nearly 100 new temporary homes for local homeless people is now underway on a former weighbridge site in Dagenham. The Leader of Barking and Dagenham Council, Cllr Darren Rodwell and Be First’s Construction Director, Tom Mather went to see how work was progressing on Thursday (28 March 2018). Cllr Rodwell said: “It’s

Be First has teamed up with Dagenham and Redbridge FC to sponsor the club’s 10th Daggers Against Racism Day. The Daggers Against Racism Day takes place alongside the East London club’s home match against Barrow AFC on Saturday 6th April, with a 3pm kick-off. And Be First is opening up the event to the community by

The latest plan to boost Barking’s growing reputation as one of east London’s most vibrant town centres was given the green light at planning committee last night (18 March). Proposals to demolish Crown House, Barking, and to redevelop the site and neighbouring Linton Road car park, were approved by councillors at the meeting. The dated

The arts are now firmly at the heart of an east London school thanks to a multi-million-pound expansion. The investment means students at Robert Clack School, whose motto ‘for the brave nothing is difficult’, will be able enjoy a new space dedicated to drama and music, built as part of a £6 million refit which