Barking & Dagenham residents can request a cycle hanger near their home

People living in the Barking & Dagenham council area are being invited to submit locations that could have a cycle hanger installed.

Tickets Alert: Free bus tours of Barking and Dagenham

Maybe not the most obvious place for a tourist bus tour, but Barking and Dagenham council is now offering free bus tours of their patch.

City of London to move Billingsgate and Smithfield markets to Dagenham

The City of London has approved plans to move both the Billingsgate and Smithfield markets to a site it owns in Dagenham.

Plans to uncover a buried brook in Dagenham

In the 1930s, part of a long river brook that runs through Dagenham was covered over to create a playing field, and there's now a plan to uncover it again.

Confusion over future of Beam Park station in East London

The finishing stages should be underway for a new railway station at Beam Park near Dagenham that will provide services for a planned 10,000 new homes, but there's no sign that construction will ever be completed.

Plans for Beam Park railway station in East London cancelled

Plans for a new railway station in East London next to a future housing development have been dealt a blow after the station was apparently cancelled.

UCL building a lab full of old tube trains and planes

A large building in East London will soon be filled with old tube trains, and an old aeroplane, as part of a UCL laboratory.

Plans for a post-meat market Smithfield unveiled

With the City of London considering moving its historic meat market out of Smithfield, thoughts are turning to what could be done with the empty buildings.

Smithfield meat market to move out of Central London

The City of London has confirmed what was pretty much already known, that Smithfield Meat Market is to leave its historic central London home.

New railway station for East London gets formal approval

Last week, the necessary final paperwork was signed for a large housing development, that will also include a new railway station on the c2c line out of Fenchurch Street.

New London Overground Map includes the Barking Extension

In 2008, the incoming Mayor of London scrapped plans for a DLR extension to Dagenham Dock. In 2014, the outgoing Mayor of London announced plans for a London Overground extension, almost to Dagenham Dock.