New Docklands district in a hot regeneration zone: 3,000-home Royal Wharf development set to have DLR and Crossrail connections

London's biggest batch of affordably priced family houses since the Eighties is being built at Royal Wharf in Docklands, and parents and kids are being given a glimpse of what life might be like in the area at a family fun day on July 29. There will be face painting for the children and a bakery workshop and barbecues.

The 310 affordably priced houses are part of a new 3,385-home neighbourhood with an uncomplicated street pattern, a riverside promenade, squares, public gardens and parks, helping to create a calm, safe environment for children.

Almost half of this mainly low-rise development will be open green space, with outdoor areas specifically designed for health and fitness programmes which will be co-ordinated by the on-site leisure complex.

Royal Wharf is also getting a new primary school, plus a Docklands Light Railway station plugging the neighbourhood into Crossrail.

Along with houses, developers Ballymore and Oxley are building four-bedroom family duplexes with up to 2,416sq ft of space. From £700,000. Call 0800 1601200.