Dorset neighbourhood

(covers Dorset & Newling)

Find out about the housing services we provide and the local services available to you in your area. 

• Your Neighbourhood Housing Officer
• Your Neighbourhood Action Plan
• Your neighbourhood newsletter
• Your neighbourhood at a glance* 

Local housing services in your area

• Your nearest Housing Office is Rushmead
• Tenants' and Residents' Associations in your area
• What we inspect in your neighbourhood 
• Improving your home and neighbourhood 
• Gardening 
• Bulk rubbish
• Check your refuse collection day
• Your caretaking and cleaning schedule 
• Local housing surgeries - sorry there are no local housing surgeries in your area 

Local housing facilities in your area

• Allotments in your area
• Notice boards
• Play areas in your neighbourhood managed by Tower Hamlets Homes

Local services and amenities

Find out about amenities and services close to where you live or work

• Your nearest one stop shop is in Bethnal Green
• Post offices
• Nearest police station
• Safer Neighbourhood Team
• Nearest Hospital
• Doctors
• Dentists
• Pharmacies/ chemists
• Local recycling centres
• Upmystreet 

Council and democracy

Your are in Weavers ward.

• Find my local Councillor and MP 

You are in Local Area Partnership 1

* The publication “Your Neighbourhood at a Glance” is based on Neighbourhood profile data as Neighbourhoods were pre January 2012 and therefore are not fully representative of the current property make up of all Tower Hamlets Homes properties and their geographic location. Please see below for changes to your Neighbourhood.

Properties originally categorised under Neighbourhood 5 (Boundary) have now been transferred under Neighbourhood 4 (Dorset)

Gascoigne Estate:

Dunmore Point (51 properties), Gascoigne Place (3 properties) and Wingfield House (20 properties)

Newling (South):

Briggs House (24 properties) Gowan House (24 properties), Strickland House (24 properties), Kirton Gardens (35 properties) and Tomlinson Close (66 properties)