Royal revamp: More than 500 apartments, including 88 affordable and key-worker homes, are to be built as part of an £80m regeneration scheme at the Royal Docks in east London.

Hertfordshire-based Furlong Homes won approval from the London borough of Newham for the project, which will involve the renovation of a Grade II-listed former hotel complete with its own marina.

Work on the seven-acre Albert Basin site, which belongs to the London Development Agency, is due to start in September.