For those still working in finance in the docklands, Government preparations for life after bankers in Canary Wharf may have come as a surprise. But this isn’t the only leftfield plan for the ...

This plan was actually made before the recent market tumult and is aimed to reduce costs at the company with about 80,000 employees and a low attrition rate.

The former West India Docks site was identified for a new financial district as part of this plan. Construction of the Canary Wharf development began in the late 1980s and continued into the 1990s.