Bid race for £55m London leisure centre and homes

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets is advancing plans to build a new leisure centre and associated block of flats.
The plan forms part of the council leader’s anti-austerity drive to build new housing and improve services.
Now it is on the hunt for a contractor to demolish the existing St George’s swimming pool building in Shadwell to make way for the new leisure centre and an eight-storey block of 29 flats on the site.Both the leisure facilities and residential accommodation will b