After a tour of Barking Riverside and the Gascoigne Estate with council leader Cllr Darren Rodwell this morning, the MP for Tooting said Barking had an “exciting” future.
He said if he was elected mayor of London on May 5 he would build affordable houses rather than repeating the mistakes of regeneration in west, north and south London.
“Too many Londoners are missing out,” he said. “If you think of London, most of it has been regenerated badly in a way that’s incredibly inaccessible to the public.
“Nobody’s against independent coffee bars and nice places to eat and drink but I am against the area being hollowed out.
“In Barking and Dagenham we need to address the needs of today and tomorrow with genuinely affordable homes.”
