Developer Muse and an east London housing association have briefed councillors on regeneration proposals for a rundown neighbourhood centre that would deliver more than 280 new homes.

RMA Architects’ proposals, drawn up for Stroudley Walk in Bow, would replace a vacant 11-storey 1960s block of flats, a selection of 1980s low-rise commercial units and a doctors’ surgery with a 25-storey tower and three other buildings of up to four storeys in height.

Muse and Poplar Harca have been working up proposals for the 0.87ha site for more than two years and received an environmental impact assessment scoping opinion from Tower Hamlets planning officers in October last year.

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