Relationship between transport and development in the Thames Gateway
Contents Front cover...... 2 Strategic overview and summary...... 3 1. Introduction ...... 8 2. The scope of the Thames Gateway in 2003 ...... 11 3. Transport analysis...... 30 4. Potential scale of development ...... 34 5. Transport and development interaction ...... 48 6. Strategic focus in the Thames Gateway ...... 62 7. Phasing of transport and development...... 66 8. Conclusions ...... 69 9. Appendix A: Travel characteristics and capacities...... 72 10. Appendix B: Planning aspiration forecasts for SE sub areas ...... 86 11. Appendix C: Examples from the Netherlands...... 89 12. Appendix D: Thames Gateway Bridge - Summary of arguments ...... 93
1 Relationship between transport and development in the Thames Gateway
Front cover Relationship between Transport and Development in the Thames Gateway for the ODPM Final Report July 2003 Llewelyn Davies and Steer Davies Gleave with Roger Tym & Partners and Atkins
2 Relationship between transport and development in the Thames Gateway
Strategic overview and summary Shaping the Thames Gateway: Development and Transport Intertwined
A Sub-Regional Structure The aspirations for major change in the Thames Gateway make it essential that there is a change of focus: from "the same but more so", to a new shape and set of relationships. We can envisage the eventual urban structure of this two-and-a-half million population sub-region as being characterised, from east to west, by: