Thames Gateway South Essex Growth Deal Canvey Gateway Fairglen Junction Town Centre & Homes Improvements A130 Pinch Point Improved A129 Pinch Point Access to Canvey A127 Route Management Basildon Integrated Strategy Length of A127 Transport Area Wide Projects Rochford Pinchpoint Rochford JAAP Infrastructure TGSE Network Thurrock LSTF Craylands Measures to Contribute to JAAP And Housing Delivery Cycling Network Improvements Thurrock Integrated Transport Programme Basildon Town TGSE Network Southend LSTF Centre TGSE Network Essex LSTF Thames Enterprise Park Green Technology Centre Hub London Gateway Public JAAP Airport Sustainability Transport Access and Access Package Improvements Academy for Skills Logistics A127 The Thames Gateway Rochford JAAP Development Of Saxon Lakeside Transport, Public Basildon London Business Park At Southend Airport Realm and Public Transport A127 Southend South Essex Economy Airport JAAP A127 Bell Junction 4.265 M25 Junction 30/31 London Southend-on-Sea Essential Bridge & Highways Thames Gateway South Essex (TGSE) is part M25 Maintenance Purfleet Centre, Town Centre A13 of the Thames Gateway; a national priority TV Studio, Rail Station Canvey Southend Central Area Growth area for growth and regeneration. In his Stanford- Island Hub & Property Interventions Le-Hope report ‘No Stone Unturned’ Lord Heseltine London Southend & Rochford JAAP Package: describes the development of the Thames Gateway Southend Central Area Transport & Chafford Site Infrastructure, Skills & Business Public Realm to Stimulate Regeneration Hundred Port Support at the Saxon Business park Gateway ‘as crucial to UK competitiveness’. Lakeside Transport Scheme Purfleet HS1 Phases 1-3c Grays Supporting Growth Area with Sustainable 4.266 JAAP A127 & Kent Elms Junction Transport & Mobility Measures Tilbury Bordering London to the west, TGSE stretches Grays Rail Station Key Grays to Port of A13 Corridor along the north bank of the Thames, through Public Realm & Housing Tilbury Package Upminster Rail SEFUND Thurrock, Basildon and Castle Point to Southend-on-Sea and Rochford in the east. It Tilbury London Gateway Stanford-Le-Hope Transport Improvements Housing Development TransportSEFUND is already home to over two thirds of a million people, 54,300 businesses and a workforce Grays Transport Schemes Phases 1-3 Third Lower National Highways of over 400,000 that generates £10bn GVA Thames Crossing And Rail per annum. TGSE’s excellent port and airport connectivity make it a key strategic gateway for London and the UK, enabling access to markets in Europe and across the world. With a mature and growing business environment, it contains, in Thurrock, one of the largest port clusters in the UK, in Basildon one of the largest business agglomerations in the East of England and in Southend the only expanding airport in the south east. Map showing the main locations for growth, jobs growth and housing growth 180 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 181 4.267 4.270 4.274 TGSE has already seen considerable growth Our approach, detailed below, looks to build With the right investment, we have the opportunity to directly create 4,045 jobs and 3,340 new and investment and has ambition for more. on our existing strengths and make the most homes by 2021 and facilitate 43,610 jobs and 11,087 homes in this corridor through our proposed TGSE local authorities, working in close of a unique combination of opportunities to transport schemes. collaboration with business, are driving deliver more than some 45,000 homes and The table below illustrates the transport components of our growth programme in the A13 growth through direct investment and 52,000 jobs. Corridor. supportive policy. 4.271 Table 4.33: TGSE A13 Corridor Transport Investments 4.268 TGSE has two major growth corridors: the TGSE authorities are committed to using A13 and the A127 which are mirrored by Start Full cost LGF funding Match Scheme End Date Jobs Homes innovative measures to harness that growth two rail lines - the London Liverpool Street Date (£m) requirement funding to build the TGSE economy, address local to Southend line and the Essex Thameside inequalities and maximise local opportunities Route running from London Fenchurch Street Access to Canvey for the area’s residents. Southend’s work in to Tilbury and Southend. These corridors and A129 Woodmans 2018/19 2020/21 8.50 7.00 1.50 950 180 recently agreeing a City Deal and efforts to enable commuter journeys and business Junction facilitate the Anglia Ruskin MedTech Campus, supply chains within TGSE and between London Gateway / 2014/15 2019/20 12.05 7.50 4.55 4400 700 Thurrock’s development of a wholly owned TGSE and London. They support TGSE as a Stanford-le-hope housing company together with its support for functional economic area stretching into Grays Town Centre 2014/15 2019/20 21.54 16.40 5.14 2000 2607 the Creative and Cultural Industries at High East and Central London supporting over Thurrock Integrated House Production Park and Basildon’s work 69,000 daily commuter journeys. The vast 2014/15 2018/19 6.17 2.00 4.17 0 0 Transport pacakage with Thurrock on developing an NNDR pool majority of the area’s potential £4.3bn of with London neighbours demonstrates a keen private sector enabled growth is at key Thurrock desire to use the freedoms and flexibilities locations along these corridors. Cycling Network 2014/15 2018/19 6.13 5.00 1.13 0 0 being afforded through the localism agenda improvements to deliver more economic growth faster. The A13 Corridor Thurrock Lakeside 2014/15 2019/20 22.39 13.00 9.39 1000 1100 4.269 Thurrock Rail 4.272 2014/15 2020/21 24.00 12.00 12.00 16,580 4,200 Package TGSE has identified and is already supporting Bordering London to the west, the A13 a number of priority sectors which, with corridor links the key port infrastructure Total 100.78 62.90 37.88 43,610 11,087 the right public sector support, have the of Tilbury and London Gateway with the potential to deliver disproportionate levels of capital. The A13 corridor is the largest single growth both in terms of simple job numbers growth opportunity in the SE LEP area and and GVA. These sectors are: already benefits from major planned and • Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering committed private investments at London • Transport and Logistics Gateway (£1.5bn), Thames Enterprise Park • Environmental Technologies and Energy (£1bn), Lakeside (£1bn), Purfleet (£600m) and L.G. Networks Canvey Gateway (£110m). • Digital, Cultural & Creative (London Gateway Networks Ltd) 4.273 Location: Thurrock Development is currently severely Industry: Telecommunications constrained by the limited capacity of the strategic road network, particularly J30/31 Thurrock is truly at the centre of business of the M25 and the dual carriageway activity in the South East. Our corridor stretch of the A13. Whilst the M25 is likely of work covers West End to South End, to be addressed through the Department and Thurrock is right at the heart. With for Transport/Highways Agency, the A13 the development of two major docks is considered a local road requiring a on our doorstep, improving transport C AS E ST U DY local solution. Recognising the strategic and communications, L.G.Networks is importance of the route. All SE LEP partners agree that Government should fund the committed to being part of the business £90m widening scheme to remove the growth in the area. Business grants barrier and unlock the full potential of the and loans available through different corridor, noting that if Government does not local government departments and fund the scheme it is likely to be beyond the bodies have helped us to invest more in means of the partnership. staffing and resources, and will no doubt continue to encourage this in the future. 182 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 South East LEP: Growth Deal and Strategic Economic Plan 2014 183 4.275 Building on the economic strength of the 2014, the College will provide 2,000 post 16 and others will create the conditions to secure London Gateway is the most significant port, a long term regeneration programme in student places with plans for this to increase the ultimate delivery of more than 2,600 new UK port development in more than 20 Tilbury seeks to increase employment levels, to 3,000 in the medium term. Thurrock Council homes and 2,000 new jobs in Grays. years. Occupying a 1,500 acre site, the and improve housing mix and quality. The is already working up further proposals 4.281 Port opened last year and will ultimately sit programme will ultimately deliver 1,000 new for Grays, building on the momentum adjacent to Europe’s largest logistics park homes and 3,800 new jobs. created by the College. These include Investment at the Canvey Gateway will see (nearly 1m sq. metres of accommodation). the first development of 50 new homes the development of a £30m Business and 4.278 The first occupier (Marks and Spencer) was through Gloriana (Thurrock’s wholly owned Enterprise Park whilst the £60m development announced in 2013 with works expected The Lakeside Basin is Europe’s largest retail housing development company), the £3.5m of the existing Knightswick Centre and to commence in 2014. Together the Port complex with a catchment area spanning refurbishment of Grays Magistrates Court as surrounding land will be the cornerstone of a and logistics park will create more than much of the greater South East. Despite its a business centre supporting creation of 200 transformed Canvey Town Centre. In total it is 12,000 direct, permanent jobs and more obvious strengths Lakeside is constrained new jobs, the development of £15m proposals anticipated that this will support the delivery than 20,000 indirect jobs.