Canada Water: first homes for sale in new £5.6bn London neighbourhood

British Land development will offer up to 3,000 new homes and offices with space for 20,000 workers

Just south of a bend in the Thames, a tower block is rising out of the ground, surrounded by several cranes and construction workers. So far, so standard for the capital’s never-ending development and redevelopment.

However, this block of flats is one of the first buildings being constructed at Rotherhithe, for Canada Water, a new London neighbourhood.