A pop-up spa helps a Barking car park scrub up well

摘要

Regeneration might bring houses, jobs and schools, but there's no surer sign that gentrification has begun than when a spa moves in. So welcome to Barking, which has added to its substantial AHMM, muf and Sheppard Robson schemes with Barking Bathhouse - a temporary, pod-based structure giving locals a spa experience for just two pounds in the spirit of its Victorian baths, which closed in the 1980s.