L&Q and Countryside have received formal planning permission for Beam Park, the 3,000-home scheme set to be built on the site of the old Ford manufacturing plant in east London.

At nearly 72 acres the scheme was the second-largest housing project to be given planning approval last year. The formal recognition of the scheme was given after a section 106 agreement had been signed.

More than half the development – 1,513 units – is earmarked to be affordable homes.