Walford won't be getting bigger and better for a while yet as plans to upgrade the current EastEnders set have been delayed until 2020.

A proposal to rebuild and expand its exterior set at Elstree was first announced in January 2014 and it was originally meant to be completed by August 2018.

The renovation would result in the new set being 20% bigger than the current one, providing a modern and upgraded exterior filming resource for EastEnders.

However, it has been confirmed that the plans have been put back by two years after hitting a major delay.

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The news was revealed in a National Audit Office (NAO) report on eight BBC projects. Overall completion is now not due until 2020, while the new Albert Square 'front' lot will be ready for production use in May 2019.

A BBC spokesperson told Digital Spy: "As this report recognises, we have significantly strengthened our management, oversight and accountability of BBC projects.

"We welcome the fact that the NAO did not find any major issues and determined that the financial benefits are actually double the forecasted project costs.

"Each project either delivers significant new savings or significant new services to the licence fee payer."

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