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A moat dating back to 1650 will be restored around a Dagenham museum. A planning application has been approved for the "repair and restoration" of the moat around Valence House Museum in Becontree ...
This year, the Becontree Estate in east London turns 100 years old. To celebrate the largest council estate in the UK, Inside Housing went round to see what makes the estate so special #UKhousing ...
Life on the east London estate built 100 years ago was "an adventure away from disease and plague".
Becontree in Dagenham, east London was built for more than 100,000 war veterans and workers from the area, with the first 'home for heroes' completed in 1921.
The design of Europe ’s largest council estate, which was built in aftermath of the Spanish flu pandemic, may have protected people living in the “ Covid triangle”.
Archio has completed a new type of villa within the Becontree Estate for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s in-house regeneration company The design, part of an overall plan to create more ...
Becontree Estate residents are being asked to inform a new set of planning guidelines for the future of the estate.
RESIDENTS who live on the UK's biggest council estate say it used to be clean and tidy but new people have RUINED it. The 27,000-home Becontree estate in Dagenham, east London, was built in the ...
The square is a fantastic new asset for the community, and our intention is that it can act as a prototype for the transformation of other similar green spaces in Becontree and beyond. The estate ...
This year, the 27,000-home Becontree Estate is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. It sprawls across four square miles, mostly in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD), and remains the ...
Life on the east London estate built 100 years ago was "an adventure away from disease and plague".
Life on the east London estate built 100 years ago was "an adventure away from disease and plague".