Bicycle Tag of bike

Excellent, well done. Nice picture too.

'Barking Riverside' is set for massive development. River Road is a funny place but there's some quite interesting architecture and things to nose at. There's planning permission already granted for over 10,o00 homes (although only 1200 can be built until public transport is improved) and David Cameron announced plans to build 13,000 new houses there in January. There's another consultation on extending the Overground to a new station at Barking Riverside and after funding finally arrived in the 2014 budget it seems like construction will start next year:
https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/rail/barking-riverside-extension?cid=barking-riverside-consult

There's a good article here on what it's like to live in the new houses they've built there already:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/17/no-cafe-pub-doctor-londons-most-isolated-suburb-barking-riverside

For the moment most of it feels like old-style industrial East London and it's well worth a nose before it all changes. If you can be bothered to ride the epic 10.5 miles from Charing Cross that is...