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- Tower Hamlets Council has appointed Stephen Platt as its new Director of Housing Property and Asset Management.
- Date:
- 23rd April 2025
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- Tower Hamlets Council marks VE Day 80 with a street party, tea dances, history club and more
- Date:
- 23rd April 2025
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- Upgrade works to 14 community food gardens on council housing estates across Tower Hamlets have been completed in time for the new growing season. £230,000 was invested to upgrade the gardens, which were all 10-15 years-old and in need of repairs and maintenance work.
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- 17th April 2025
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- Tower Hamlets residents can a pair of VIP tickets to the LIDO festival 2025
- Date:
- 17th April 2025
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- 98 per cent of children due to start primary school in September have been offered a place at one of their preferred primary schools in Tower Hamlets. This is consistent with figures from last year.
- Date:
- 17th April 2025
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- The council has frozen all activity and membership fees at Be Well leisure centres for the next year to keep services affordable and accessible for all borough residents.
- Date:
- 16th April 2025
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- Nearly 1,000 job seekers in Tower Hamlets received expert careers advice at a public sector careers and jobs fair on Thursday 10 April, held at Tower Hamlets Town Hall.
- Date:
- 16th April 2025
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- A total of 33 new homes have been completed across two sites on Wickford Street in Bethnal Green.
- Date:
- 10th April 2025
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- Tower Hamlets Council officially reopened London's oldest spa at the historic York Hall on 3 April – one of the last remaining traditional Turkish baths in London – following a half a million pound renovation by the council.
- Date:
- 3rd April 2025
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- Five individuals have been hit with a range of sentences in one of the longest and most complex Trading Standards prosecutions in the UK.
- Date:
- 31st March 2025