With the new Lincoln Plaza development this week named winner of the 2016 Carbuncle Award - for those special properties that blight the Docklands skyline - more questions are being asked about whether the Council is competent enough to be in charge of housing in Tower Hamlets.
Local Isle of Dogs residents Richard Flowers said: "The real carbuncle here is a local planning authority that lets developers throw up flats for the luxury market with little or no homes for the people who so desperately need them".