Tower Hamlets is one of the UK’s best local authorities.

Many of our services are award-winning and in 2022 we were shortlisted for MJ’s Council of the Year.

This is the most exciting time in our history. We have just moved into our new Town Hall at the Grade II-listed former Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and we are well underway in delivering the ambitious vision of our new mayor Lutfur Rahman. That vision includes being the first local authority in the country to provide universal free school meals for primary and secondary school children, and the insourcing of services including leisure, youth and housing management.

Our borough is one of the most popular places in the UK to live, work and visit. We provide the UK’s third largest economic output, we are steeped in London’s history and one of the most culturally diverse places in the world, are the fastest growing and most densely populated place in the UK and Tower Hamlets has a set of destinations that are the envy of any city. It is why we describe ourselves as the best of London in one borough.