{"id":1091,"date":"2014-02-09T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T11:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2014-02-09T11:12:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T11:12:51","slug":"more-than-100-homes-planned-as-watts-grove-gets-the-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/more-than-100-homes-planned-as-watts-grove-gets-the-green-light\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 100 homes planned as Watts Grove gets the green light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tower Hamlets Council has announced a multi-million pound housing development in Bow with 149 homes planned.<br \/>\nAt a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, February 5, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman announced that a stalled programme to build 149 homes on the Watts Grove development had now been rekindled following agreement of a new funding model.<br \/>\nWith more than 20,000 people on the council\u2019s housing waiting list it was paramount to find a solution to unlock the potential housing.<br \/>\nMayor Lutfur Rahman said: &#8220;By refusing to budge on our commitment to value for money we&#8217;ve secured the homes that residents need despite the climate of austerity. This is the approach Tower Hamlets needs to tackle our historic housing problems.&#8221;<br \/>\nCllr Rabina Khan, cabinet member for housing said: &#8220;Tower Hamlets has built more affordable homes than any other council in the UK. We&#8217;ve been able to do this by negotiating hard and making sure local people get the best possible value.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cSometimes that is straightforward, sometimes it takes a little time but our track record shows that this administration has what it takes to tackle the housing crisis head on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/more-than-100-homes-planned-as-watts-grove-gets-the-green-light\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tower Hamlets Council has announced a multi-million pound housing development in Bow with 149 homes planned. At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, February 5, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman announced that a stalled programme to build 149 homes on the Watts Grove development had now been rekindled following agreement of a new funding &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}