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Creating Sustainable Communities Delivering the Thames Gateway Contents Creating sustainable communities Delivering the Thames Gateway Contents Thames Gateway – our commitment 1 Development and renewal 9 Environment 22 Transport 27 Sustainable homes 32 Tackling disadvantage 37 Health 42 Education, skills and employment 47 Delivering the Gateway 52 Annex A – The planning framework 62 Annex B – Contacts and glossary 64 Thames Gateway – our commitment Introduction by the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister When we flew over the Thames Gateway The Thames Gateway is a project of such eighteen months ago, we saw Europe's scale and complexity that it can only be largest regeneration opportunity, a huge delivered with the full commitment of the area of brownfield land on the doorstep Government as a whole. That’s why we of London. From the City of London to are already spending £6 billion across Southend and Sheppey, the Gateway Government to create high quality encompasses areas of affluence as sustainable communities in the Gateway. well as pockets of disadvantage. And our spending is unlocking billions of pounds of investment by the private sector For decades, successive Governments and our partners in local authorities. have looked to the East of London and pondered how to make the most of Together, we are providing the transport We are greening the Gateway so that the opportunity to regenerate land and infrastructure, schools and hospitals, we actually enhance the environmental renew existing communities. It's only so that we create communities rather amenity of the area with new parks, now, with the Government's Sustainable than soulless housing estates and nature reserves and sporting facilities. Communities Plan, that we are really avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. We are minimising flood risk by putting getting to grips with the tremendous We are investing to improve existing in place a strong planning framework. potential of the Gateway to deliver towns and cities and create better quality And we are raising the skills and sustainable growth. new development and open space. aspirations of local people to provide them with greater opportunity. 1 For decades, Governments have failed to Our proposals for regeneration and the transport schemes we identified provide enough homes in London and the responsible growth in the Thames then, including high speed Javelin South East. The Barker Report on Housing Gateway were launched in July 2003. trains between Kent and London, Supply underlined the consequences of Since then, a lot has been done and and added a range of projects failing to meet housing need. If we are there's real momentum. This document paid for by our new £200 million to meet this housing need responsibly provides an update of what we have Community Infrastructure Fund; and sustainably, and provide for continued achieved so far and describes our G A ground breaking financial prosperity, we must seize the opportunity priorities for the future. It demonstrates settlement for the Mayor of London offered by this huge area of brownfield the long term, cross-Government approach which has enabled him to commit land and bring it back into productive use. we are taking and the levels of financial in his Five Year Business Plan to commitment the Government has made. The Gateway will provide a choice of transport schemes such as the homes. These need to be well-designed In July 2003, we said that improvements in Thames Gateway transits and and affordable for families and people on strategic transport were critical to facilitate extensions to the Docklands moderate incomes. In the Gateway, we growth. We are delivering: Light Railway. expect 80% of new homes will be built on G A further £400 million for transport derelict, brownfield land and a new Code projects, in addition to the £600 for Sustainable Buildings will be in use to million previously allocated. deliver better environmental performance We’ve made progress with all and lower running costs. 2 We said that we would improve schools, We said we would enable the development We said that a high quality environment colleges and healthcare. We are delivering: of 120 000 homes. We are delivering: and access to green space were essential to make the Gateway an attractive place G £60 million investment in Primary G An increase in new homes being built to live. We are delivering: Care Trusts across the four Growth in local authorities in the Gateway, Areas to help them plan for growth from 7769 in 2002/03 to 9368 in G A strategic vision for green in health provision; 2003/04; spaces, set out in our publication, Greening the Gateway, and a G £40 million investment in three G Agreement between the three follow-up Implementation Plan, new universities and colleges in regional planning bodies, in the which explains how the vision Southend, Medway and Royal Docks. Inter-Regional Planning Statement, will be translated into reality; Together with our support for the that the Gateway has the potential Learning and Skills Councils, this for 128 500 homes, spread across G 80% of new development on will equip people with the right skills London, North Kent and South Essex; brownfield land, protecting to take up new jobs in the Gateway. valuable greenfield space; G New home ownership initiatives to Over the long term, we expect up help people on moderate incomes – G A strengthened planning framework to 180 000 jobs to be created. such as key workers, first time buyers which will ensure local authorities and tenants of social housing – own take account of flood risk in their their own homes, providing housing development frameworks and in choice across the Gateway. planning decisions. 3 We said that we would establish a We said that we would invest Government G In Stratford and the Lower Lea, the new delivery structure for the Gateway. funding in the Gateway to facilitate growth Stratford City development of 7000 We have established: and regeneration. We are delivering: new homes and 750 000 square metres of commercial development, G A new ODPM Thames Gateway G £475 million from the Thames two schools and a health centre Delivery Unit, on site in the Gateway, Gateway Programme Fund for has received outline planning to drive forward action; projects that will support growth and permission. Work is expected regeneration, improving the quality G Two Urban Development to start on site by 2006. of life for existing and new residents. Corporations in East London Our budget over the five years to G In Greenwich Peninsula, a whole and Thurrock; 2008 is £850 million; new community is being created G A network of seven regeneration around a new school and health G £6 billion across Government as partnerships to coordinate activity centre and accessible open space. a whole to ensure the delivery of at the local level and involve local The Dome will provide a major sustainable communities. communities in the regeneration sports and entertainment venue. of their areas. In July 2003, we also identified five The award-winning Greenwich strategic development locations where Millennium Village is already in major change would occur. Since then, place and planning permission we have made real progress: has been granted for 10 000 new homes. 4 G In London Riverside, we have entered G In North Kent Thameside, major And there is an additional focus on into a public-private joint venture to challenges remain in relation to the Medway. In Rochester Riverside, we develop the site of an old power capacity of the trunk road network to are creating a new community on the station and waste tip at Barking cope with growth. We are resolving site of a gas works. The river has Reach, London’s largest brownfield these. Our commitment to new high high biological diversity and we site. A masterplanned development speed services linking Ebbsfleet and are being careful to preserve that. is planned of up to 10 800 homes, Stratford to central London in 2009 In Chatham, we have funded the a school and community facilities and the construction of Phase One adaptation of historic buildings for which would allow local people of Fastrack, a new segregated bus use as a new university’s campus. access to the riverfront for the system linking up developments But this is just the beginning. The first time in decades. across the area, will support the Government is putting in place the development of major sites such G In Thurrock, the new Thurrock infrastructure and investment in people as Ebbsfleet which already have Thames Gateway Development which will deliver sustainable communities approval for 700 000 square metres Corporation will shortly embark in the Thames Gateway in the longer term. of development, including offices on a package of land acquisition and homes. By 2010: to facilitate housing and job growth. G At least 60 000 new homes will be built across the Gateway, helping to make home ownership more affordable for local residents and key workers; 5 G New high speed trains will reduce G There will be a well-used green network G All residents will have access to high journey times between central London which links up communities through high quality healthcare, reducing health and Stratford to seven minutes; to quality green space. inequalities across the area; Ebbsfleet to 17 minutes; and connect By 2016: G We will have protected, enhanced to Medway and, of course, to Europe; and added to the 53 000 hectares of G At least 120 000 homes will be built G East London will have a new network of greenspace in the Gateway – equivalent across the Gateway, of which at least public transport including the Docklands to the size of the Greater Manchester 35% will be affordable for rent or Light Railway extension to Woolwich, urban area – and increased accessibility for purchase by first time buyers and the Thames Gateway transit.
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