{"id":875021,"date":"2026-04-06T03:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/875021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:50:35","slug":"londons-legendary-billingsgate-market-is-being-turned-into-a-new-neighbourhood-with-10000-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/875021\/","title":{"rendered":"London\u2019s Legendary Billingsgate Market is Being Turned Into a New Neighbourhood With 10,000 Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, we reported<\/a>\u00a0on a thinktank that said housing in London has become \u2018impossibly unaffordable\u2019. If you\u2019re a Londoner, you\u2019ll know exactly what we were talking about. This is down to a myriad of factors, of course, but the housing shortage is a big one. A whopping 10,000 proposed new homes in and around Billingsgate Fish Market<\/a>\u00a0may be \u2013 ahem \u2013 a drop in the ocean, but Tower Hamlets Council would no doubt argue that every little helps.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The council has explained, in a new pamphlet promoting the area to developers, that it\u2019s working with the City of London Corporation on the project. And don\u2019t worry: the fish market isn\u2019t disappearing completely; it\u2019s moving from Poplar to the Royal Docks<\/a> in Newham, as we reported at the end of last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Naturally, given the speculative nature of the plans, it\u2019s not clear when development might begin, but the pamphlet suggested that the council is asking developers to consider the site as a prospect for 2026. Councillors for Aspire, the local leading political party, approved the promotional pamphlet last week (on March 24).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dubbed Future Places, the pamphlet explained that the collaboration would seek to \u2018bring forward the redevelopment of the site that will create a significant new mixed-use quarter with improved connectivity between Canary Wharf and South Poplar, providing thousands of homes and jobs\u2019.<\/p>\n

It added: \u2018This is the single biggest opportunity for growth in the borough, creating a whole new mixed-use neighbourhood that is closely connected to both Poplar and Canary Wharf. The opportunity here is at an early stage and partners have a real opportunity to help shape it right from the start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Working with partners, we want to create a vibrant neighbourhood \u2013 stitching residential South Poplar and employment-driven Canary Wharf together, fostering community cohesion and strengthening connections between Poplar\u2019s Chrisp Street town centre and Canary Wharf metropolitan centre.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Jess Hand for Time Out <\/p>\n

Tower Hamlets council is also shopping the area\u2019s Poplar DLR depot and New City College.<\/p>\n

Billingsgate opened on Lower Thames Street in 1876 and moved to its current 13-acre Poplar site in 1982. Last year, when we got a whiff that the fish market was set to close by 2028, Time Out headed down there. \u2018Billingsgate a small cog in the machinery that keeps the city going,\u2019 wrote<\/a> Holly Monks. \u2018Sure, it can live without it. But when Billingsgate goes, it takes a bit of the fabric of London with it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman said that the new pamphlet was designed to show developers that the council is \u2018open to business\u2019.<\/p>\n

Did you hear that\u00a0Leadenhall Market has announced its full list of markets and dates for 2026<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus:\u00a0Poplar\u00a0has been named the \u2018coolest\u2019 place to live London by the Times<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke \u2013 from news and reviews to events and trends. Just\u00a0<\/strong>follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stay in the loop: sign up for our\u00a0<\/strong>free Time Out London newsletter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, we reported\u00a0on a thinktank that said housing in London has become \u2018impossibly unaffordable\u2019. If you\u2019re a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,26824,393,4884,257,26825,2516,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-875021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-categories-property","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-news-property","14":"tag-property","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116355729255212847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}