A row has blown up between property developers and a coalition of East End MPs and residents over the fate of one of London’s last bomb sites. Now the DOE is set to rule whether Hermitage Wharf in Wapping should be converted into riverside apartments or a memorial park to the 80,000 Londoners who died during the blitz. The London Docklands Development Corporation paid Tower Hamlets Council £4.28m for a third of the land in 1993. It already owned the rest of the site. It expects to receive up to £10m from developers if its plans for apartments, shops and leisure facilities – including a small park – go ahead.
- The Daily Telegraph 12/8/96 page 7
