City Hall has approved Levitt Bernstein and Morris & Co’s plans for up to 1,545 new homes at the Aberfeldy estate in Poplar, east London, almost 12 months after Tower Hamlets Council rejected the scheme.

The application, put forward by developer EcoWorld London and social-housing provider Poplar HARCA, includes detailed consent for 277 homes in the next phase of development of Aberfeldy Village.

Since planning approval for the mixed-use redevelopment of the estate was first granted in 2012, 901 new homes have been built in the initial three phases of the scheme.

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