The first properties have been launched at a 3,500-home development in East London.

Dagenham Green is a joint venture between housebuilder The Hill Group and housing association Peabody in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

Developers say 1,640 of the planned 3,500 homes will be affordable housing.

The 10-acre development will also include a new urban park, 3,000sq m of play areas for children, community growing spaces, new cycle and pedestrian routes, a new market square, secondary school and medical centre.

Construction of the first phase - 935 apartments - began in March 2023, with the first residents expected to move in during summer 2025.

Ranging from one to three-bedrooms, the first phase will offer 247 homes for private sale, 360 build-to-rent properties, 135 affordable rent apartments and 193 for shared ownership.

Honouring the site’s history, a heritage trail will commemorate the brave local women who championed equal pay rights in the 1960s.

Striking to demand equitable pay for comparable work, the women at the former Ford factory, on which Dagenham Green is being built, played a key role in the journey towards the Equal Pay Act of 1970.

Homes at Dagenham Green launched on October 26.