Green Infrastructure Framework Plan Figure 4.1 Open Spaces

Key 6 Thurrock boundary 7 Parks and gardens Country parks 5 Golf clubs Recreation sports Amenity greenspace Natural and semi natural greenspace Amenity area in shopping or housing Schools (with or without Community access) Church / Cemetery Allotments Community Forest Childrens play spaces Open space not identified in the Thurrock Open Spaces Strategy 1 1-Kennington Park Country Park

Strategic open space close to Thurrock's 8 boundary 5- Wat Tyler Country Park 6- Langdon Nature Reserve 7- Plotlands Nature Reserve 8- Rainham and Wennington Marshes

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Source:

Date: 31/08/2006

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012Km

Source: Thurrock Council Ordnance Survey Thames Chase

Date: 31/08/2006

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Key Thurrock boundary Land Character Type A - Fenland Landscape B - Rolling Farmland / Wooded Hills Landscape B2 C-MarshLandscape B3 D - Urban Fringe Landscape A1 B1 E-UrbanLandscape Landscape Character Area C1 A1, E6 B1, Sticking Hill B4 B2, B3, Ridge C2 B4, Bellus E2 C1, Fobbing Marshes C2, Coryton D1 C3, Marshes D4 D2 D5 C4, Mucking Flats E1 C5, Marshes D3 C4 C3 D1,/ E4 D2, River Valley D3, North Corridor D7 D4,White Crofts/ E3 D5, Linford/Buckingham Hill D6 D6, Chadwell Escarpment D7,West Tilbury C5 E1,Aveley E5 E2, South Ockendon E3, and E4, Grays/ E5,Tilbury and Docks E6,Corringham/Standford-le-Hope

/ 012Km DRAFT Source: Thurrock Council

Date: 31/08/2006

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Key Thurrock boundary Scheduled Ancient Monuments Scheduled Ancient Monuments sensitivity No data Little Known Sensitivity Sensitive Moderately Sensitive Highly Sensitive Extremely sensitive

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Source: English Heritage County Council

Date: 11/01/2007

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Key Thurrock boundary Previously Developed Land A - Previously developed land now vacant C - Derelict land and buildings D - Previously developed land or buildings currently in use and allocated in local plan or with planning permission

/ 012Km DRAFT Source: Thurrock Council NLUD

Date: 31/08/2006

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/ 012Km DRAFT Source: DEFRA RDS

Date: 31/08/2006

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Thurrock boundary

Strategic Views Proposed Strategic Semi-Natural Greenspace: Lion Gorge Mardyke Valley Fen 13 Tilbury Marshes Langdon Hills Country East + West Tilbury Park Marshes West of Kennington Park Mucking Marshes 7 South of kennington Park Marshes Little Belhus Fobbing Marshes Baldwins Farm Aveley + Ockendon Forest Park Land South of WestThurrock Marshes Grange Farm Strategic Sites to Safeguard for Biodiversity and Geology: Aveley Marshes WestThurrock Marshes Chafford Gorge Mucking Flats 1 Fobbing Marshes + 8 Strategic Multifunctional Green Space : Enhance 10 Belhus Park andWoods Complex 5 4 Blackshots Sports Complex 6a 12 Create Cory Country Park Bluehouse Country Park Strategic Heritage Asset: Belhus Park 6 Tilbury Fort Tilbury Docks Coalhouse Fort Purfleet / High House Archaeological Park / Cropmark Network Davy Down Orsett Fen 2 3 Potential Heritage Assets: Parsonage Common 9 11 Walton Common Natural Systems Opportunity Sustainable Management for Wood Fuel Potential for Co-firing using Biomass Potential for Biomass Cropping Potential for Community Garden at High House Flood Management:

Potential for Strategic SuDS Potential for Managed Realignment

Priority for Flood Management Stategic Links: Proposed Sustrans Cycle Route** Proposed Strategic Green Links - Rural Proposed Strategic Green Links - Urban Riverways Parkways Strategic Bridging Points: Proposed Strategic Bridging Points 01234Km Existing Strategic Bridging Points

Source: Thurrock Council Existing Open Space Land Use Consultants ExistingOpenSpace(Accessmayberestricted) Date: 16/01/2007 Thames Chase Community Forest Note: Greenspace definition includes sites of known biodiversity andgeologicalimportancesomeofwhicharedesignated. Broad Landscape Management Areas: The use of designated sites must seek to contribute to their conservation and enhancement, therefore Create / Restore Landscape Character consideration of how these sites will contribute to the Greengrid must take this fully into account Marshland Landscape to be Conserved and Enhanced ** Sustrans cycle route to be agreed Pastoral Landscape to be Conserved and Enhanced subject to access restrictions Wooded Landscape Character to be Enhanced Reproduced from Ordnance Survey information with the permission of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Crown Copyright, LUC Licence No 100019265 File:\\3800\3840Thurrock Green Infrastructure\GIS\Themes\ArcGIS9\3840-01_010_Green_Infrastructure_Plan_A3_Revision9_1601007.mxd Thurrock Green Infrastructure Framework Plan Figure 4.9 Potential Open Spaces and Open Space Deficiency

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/ 012Km DRAFT Source: Thurrock Council

Date: 31/08/2006

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Key Thurrock boundary

Map 1 - Purfleet andWest Thurrock

Map 2 - Grays, Chadwell St. Mary and Tilbury

Map 3 - Aveley and South Ockendon

Map 4 - East Tilbury, Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham MAP 3 MAP 4

MAP 2

MAP 1

/ 012Km DRAFT Source: Thurrock Council

Date: 31/08/2006

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Scale: 1:25000

Source: Thurrock Council

Date: 04/01/2007

Location

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0 0.5 1 1.5 Km

Scale: 1:25000

Source: Thurrock Council

Date: 04/01/2007

Location

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Tilbury Marshes Priority for Flood Management Lion Gorge Strategic Bridging Po ints: K Strategic Sites to Safeguard for Biodiversity and Geology: Proposed Strategic Bridging Points West Thurrock Marshes Existing Strategic Bridging Points

Chafford Gorge Local Greenspace Opportunities Potential for Multifunctional I Lion Pit Greenspace Grays Chalk Pit Potential Local Green Links Currently Accessible Potential Local Green Links Hangman's Wood & Dene Holes J H 0 0.5 1 1.5 Km

Scale: 1:25000

Source: Thurrock Council

Date: 04/01/2007

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0 0.5 1 1.5 Km

Scale: 1:25000 Source: Thurrock Council Natural

Date: 16/01/2007

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Figure 4.14 Local Opportunities Map4: EastTilbury, Source: Thurrock Council Stanford-le-Hope and Corringham Date: 04/01/2007

Key 00.511.5Km Strategic Sites to Safeguard Strategic Links: Thurrock boundary for Biodiversity and Geology: Proposed Sustrans Scale: 1:25000 Cycle Route PROWs and Cycle Routes: Mucking Flats Riverways Existing Routes Strategic Multifunctional Green Proposed Strategic Green Links: Currently Accessible Desired Routes Space Create: Proposed Strategic Green Links: Cyclists Dismount Cory Country Park Desired Links Parkways Existing Open Space (Access may be restricted) Bluehouse Country Park Strategic Bridging Points: Proposals: Existing Strategic Bridging Points Natural Systems Opportunity StrategicViews: Potential for Biomass Local Greenspace Opportunities Previously Developed Land: Cropping Potential for Multifunctional (NLUD 2004) Greenspace Previously developed land Strategic Heritage Asset: Potential Local Green Links Currently Accessible (Potential for Green Bata Shoe Factory Infrastructure) Potential Local Green Links Proposed Strategic Semi- Flood Management: Natural Greenspace: Potential for Strategic Mucking Marshes SuDS Potential for Managed East Tilbury Marshes Realignment

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Key Thurrock boundary Create / Restore Landscape Character Marshland Landscape to be Conserved and Enhanced Pastoral Landscape to be Conserved and Enhanced Wooded Landscape Character to be Enhanced Thames Chase Community Forest

012Km

Source: Thurrock Council

Date: 31/08/2006

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