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DOCKLANDS, London

Considered a vast white elephant in the early 1990's, Docklands is now heralded as a great success and its influence can be felt across Tower Hamlets. With its three gleaming towers expected to triple the working population of the area over the next few years and the Jubilee Line finally in place, past teething problems of unfilled offices space, lack of transport and no shops, have long since faded into Docklands history.

Stretching from Tower Bridge, Wapping and Limehouse along the Thames dockside in the south, to the true East End haunts of Bow, Stepney and Bethnal Green in the north, Tower Hamlets is a borough of extremes. Banking and IT wealth dominates Docklands, whilst some of the worse London council estates lie only a few miles north, a reminder of the borough's past decay. Regeneration is still the buzzword and as the trend for urban living continues to grow amongst the well paid bankers and IT staff who populate the shiny new riverside office blocks, Tower Hamlets will continue to successfully reinvent itself.

A vast swathe of modern apartments, converted warehouses and town houses. Regenerated from its previous derelict state over the past decade, The Isle of Dogs remains somewhat isolated from the rest of Docklands and a little soulless. Unlike neighbouring Wapping, the Island, as it is known locally, remains vulnerable to market downturns due to its location on the fringe. Prices are highest for the newest developments and properties with river views.

Spitalfields and Whitechapel provide a lively and cosmopolitan corner of London. Commercial and residential buildings stand side by side in an area of London renowned for its wholesale rag trade and buzzing Asian Community. Houses rarely come on the market and are snatched up quickly by developers in the know. Streets off the famous Brick Lane, boast tall Georgian town houses and a location close to the best curry houses in London. New developments and warehouse shells are readily available, many now being touted as live / work units.

Wapping & limehouse are the birthplace of London's warehouse conversion trend and location for the first apartment blocks to house Docklands new wealthy workers in the late 1980's. Now grown up from its early days as a building site and home to a vast number of plush apartments and luxury flats. Wapping is more expensive than Limehouse due to its closer location to the City. The Limehouse Basin is still largely a construction site with new developments rising up every week. Inland from the dockside, small enclaves of Victorian and Edwardian terraces still survive as well as a number of council blocks.

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