London is East!🌍 Great to join Local London & @CentreForLondon at #LREF2025. We’re setting out our bold vision for growth - harnessing our young, diverse communities, unmatched land & global connections. Further unlocking Newham and the capital’s potential. 💪

🕙 Vote! Polling Stations close at 10pm today for the Plaistow South By-Election! Out speaking to voters with our brilliant Newham Labour Group candidate Ash Singh, and they know he’ll be a brilliant advocate for local residents at the Council 👍🏽 #VoteLabour 🌹

Last night I had the privilege of speaking at the Creative Industries Property Forum Here East. It was a great chance to share the work we've been doing through Building Newham’s Creative Future and outline how culture is driving opportunity & growth across our borough.🎭🤝

What a transformation on the #RoyalDocksCorridor! A 4-lane racetrack for cars becomes a street for everyone—celebration today with project managers, builders, councillors, Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE, and Will Norman. Congratulations to all at Newham London 💙 for an amazing achievement! 🎉

Absolutely brilliant to open the Royal Docks Corridor this morning. The GLA & Newham teams have transformed this dangerous industrial road into a wonderful new public space - complete with a fab cycle lane, crossings, new lighting, beautiful planting and flood resilience.

We're thrilled that the Royal Docks Corridor is officially opened! 🎉

🇵🇸 The State of Palestine, finally, formally exists. That’s 110 years since the start of the infamous Hussein-McMahon correspondence, and 78 years since the end of the British mandate in Palestine. All the while, we know the anguish of generations in the period in between and

Happy Rosh Hashanah! Shana Tova from all of us at Labour.

Happy Navratri! From Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE OBE, Councillors and everyone at Newham Council.

Rosh Hashanah. Wishing our Jewish community a Happy and Healthy New Year. From Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE OBE, Councillors and everyone at Newham Council.

We had a lovely evening yesterday at the Dovetail celebrating work beginning on Carpenters Estate for Newham London 💙! Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE OBE joined our wonderful residents and community partners to celebrate the beginning of a major project: the retrofit of James Riley Point.

Populo Living Rokhsana Fiaz OBE Newham Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz OBE OBE, partners and local groups mark the start of work on the regeneration of the Carpenters estate in Stratford.

Populo Living Rokhsana Fiaz OBE First step will be an ambitious retrofit of James Riley Point, an iconic 23-storey landmark. The tower will be carefully restored and fitted out to Passivhaus EnerPHit standards, creating 136 bright and energy-efficient homes, almost all of which will be genuinely affordable.

Populo Living Rokhsana Fiaz OBE Over 12 years the resident-led masterplan will deliver 2,300 new and refurbished homes for Newham. 50% of these will be genuinely affordable at social rent in line with Opportunity Newham.