The Thames Gateway is a Central Government priority area for regeneration and growth, and stretches along the River Thames from the City of London eastwards through Thurrock and Bexley and on to Southend in Essex and Sheerness in Kent. Over the next 20 years, 120,000 new homes will be built and 180,000 new jobs will be created.
In 1995, the government published the 'Thames Gateway Planning Framework' which identified the gateway as an area of need. The decline of the industrial economy in the area led to high levels of unemployment and deprivation and left a high number of large former industrial sites ideal for redevelopment.
The framework's vision is to try and bring these into more productive use through a programme of economic, social and environmental regeneration.
See the Communities and Local Government website for more information about the Thames Gateway Planning Framework.
The following areas in the south of Barking and Dagenham are part of the Thames Gateway development area:
We are currently transforming Barking Town Centre to become the town centre of choice for our existing communities and the planned new communities at Barking Riverside. Around 7,500 new homes will be built for private sale, shared ownership and to rent. There will be new shops and community facilities, including a new learning centre and a new Business Centre on part of the site of the former Lintons housing estate providing space for new businesses
Barking Riverside is the biggest brownfield regeneration site in the borough and will become home to 10,800 homes with 3 new schools, healthcare facilities, shopping areas, parks, river access with new cycle and path ways, and excellent transport connections
London Riverside is the biggest development opportunity in the London Thames Gateway and it stretches from Dagenham Dock across Havering and into Thurrock. Dagenham Dock - a run-down industrial area - will become the new home for London's green businesses with the opening of a 'sustainable industrial park'.
The sustainable industrial park will create a 'new generation' manufacturing and processing centre for environmental industries to make sure that London and the Thames Gateway capitalise on the commercial opportunities of dealing with environmental issues.
A new flagship, state of the art, plastics recycling facility will be built by 'Closed Loop' - this environmentally friendly building will process plastic bottles into a material that can be re-used as food packaging.
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