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Another 250 new homes and a new “village centre” have been approved for a garden city in Kent. The proposals for Ebbsfleet, between Gravesend and Dartford, also feature a supermarket and space for a cafe takeaways and small businesses in the centre of the area known as Castle Hill. The plans put forward by developer Newcrest were approved by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation , which oversees planning for the area, on Wednesday night. future village centre at Castle Hill" alt="The future village centre at Castle Hill" /> The future village centre at Castle Hill Social housing provider Clarion was given permission for a further 37 houses and 31 apartments in Castle Hill, all of which will be shared ownership. The approvals continue towards the government’s target of 6,250 homes to be built in three villages in the huge Eastern Quarry near Bluewater. The corporation’s interim cheif executive Paul Spooner said: “It’s good to see another 250 homes being ...

Lee Valley VeloPark Standing on the tenth floor of TfL's soon-to-be offices in the heart of the Olympic Park, there's a panoramic view of Stratford and the rest of London beyond. The landscape is littered with cranes and unfinished tower blocks like the one we're standing in. Among them there's a sprinkling of former Olympic venues that provided the catalyst for this re-imagined Stratford to occur. Or did they? A huge slice of the changes in the Olympic Park comes from International Quarter London . IQL is run by property development company Lendlease , and totals up to 4 million sq ft of offices. Lendlease also built the luxury apartment complex Glasshouse Gardens in the Olympic Park and, originally built the Athletes' Village for the games. The team here knows intimately the rapid changes the area has undergone. Kevin Chapman, head of offices at IQL, tells us, "what we've had to do is bring the commercial office element into the Olympic Park as part...