28 Sep
Garden lighting
London - N12
Enquiry from: Mercel H
Start Date: Immediate
Electrical work in the garden. PIR installation. External night light installation
Barking
Barking is a town and district inside the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It's 8.8 miles east of Charing Cross and is one of the 35 significant centres named in the London Plan. Historically, it was a fishing settlement in Essex and an ancient parish. After that it shifted to market gardening and industrial development towards the south, alongside the River Thames.
Barking soon developed into a larger town and its rail station opened in 1854. It's been served by the London Underground since 1908. During the twentieth century, when there was significant suburban growth of London, Barking expanded and increased in population. This was mainly as a consequence of the building of the London County Council estate at Becontree in the 1920s. Barking became a municipal borough in 1931 and part of Greater London in 1965.
The town centre is a significant retail and commercial district which is at present in plans for regeneration. You can find former industrial lands towards the south which are currently being redeveloped as Barking Riverside, which aims to regenerate the Thames riverside location of East London by way of new houses, jobs and services. It contains 350 acres of brownfield land, and development began in 2008. It is expected to be completed by about 2025. 10,000 residences will be constructed, which are anticipated to house 25,000 individuals. The developers will also offer new transport links, which includes East London Transit and an extension of the Docklands Light Railway at Barking Riverside DLR station.
