NEWSLETTER PURFLEET ISSUE 01 SUMMER 18 ON THAMES SHOW YOUR SUPPORT: #OurPurfleet – Our Future! • In writing by picking up a postcard to pledge your support from various venues in Purfleet • Above by scanning the pledge QR code We are particularly grateful to the Purfleet Community Forum for their advice and support over the life of Pledge your support! New retail, leisure and commercial uses supported by improved transport infrastructure, health and educational facilities and public realm, together with up to this project and we look 2,850 stylish, modern homes forward to continuing to We are pleased to issue • An improved railway work with them. our first newsletter station and transport focusing on the £1 billion facilities Purfleet regeneration • A new mini University with updates for you, the campus focusing on healthcare, Purfleet community. creative and business entrepreneurship (in PCRL’s plans for Purfleet later phases) New homes ready in on Thames are on track to 2020 be considered by Thurrock’s • State of the art film, planning committee in the TV and media studios facility We have received lots of autumn – so if you would enquiries asking when new like to see: • Up to 2,850 new homes homes will be ready. We • A new town centre with Please show your support can reveal 61 new 2,3 and shops, restaurants and for the Purfleet on Thames 4 bedroom homes will be great public spaces plans today! available as early as 2020. • A new medical centre, We are working with NU new primary school and You can pledge your living to build high quality new community facilities support: homes. More information to • New parks and leisure • Online at follow in our next newsletter. spaces • www.ourpurfleet.com #OurPurfleet - Our Future! Visit: www.ourpurfleet.com to find out more and pledge your support for this regeneration #OurPurfleet ISSUE 01 SUMMER 18 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! What would 1m sq feet of film studios mean for the Thames Gateway and Purfleet? PCRL’s plans include an incredible one million square feet of film studios. This is really exciting for the Thames Gateway region which has already attracted great cultural icons like The Royal Opera House. Our proposals would make Purfleet stand out as a cultural hub for the South East and together with the other commercial uses An exciting new town centre: we are planning, would bring New retail, leisure and commercial uses supported by improved transport infrastructure, health 1,000’s of jobs to the area. and educational facilities and public realm, together with up to 2,850 stylish, modern homes You may have noticed three. Tell us what you think on that one of our partners, social media using our hashtag Keltbray, has moved offsite. #OurPurfleet. This is another step forward for us, as it means the first We’d like to express further phase of site investigation thanks to all those who helped has been completed. shape the masterplan for the future Purfleet on Thames. PCRL Further phases of investigation (Purfleet Centre Regeneration will be taking place in due course Limited) has worked with and we will let you know when a wide range of local and WHAT’S these are going to start. In the national organisations to share meantime, we would like to say best practice and develop a thank you for your support whilst transformation masterplan for NEXT? the initial investigation works Purfleet. Follow up work to the were carried out. site survey is ongoing. It PCRL and Thurrock Council are is anticipated that the More exciting news is that we committed to the delivery of this consultation process regarding have some community hoarding masterplan which will benefit the the next phase of development going up onsite very soon. We will local community and drive wider will begin later this year. be able to confirm the location growth and development in the shortly, however you can have a broader Thurrock and Thames We will let you know further details in the next newsletter. sneak peek at the visuals on page Gateway regions. #OurPurfleet - Our Future! EXCITING TIMES ARE COMING... LSBU QUARTERMASTER PROPOSALS PROGRESS PCRL have been working on PCRL are progressing proposals London South Bank University with Quartermaster Holdings proposals for a new ‘mini campus’ Limited for the delivery of the focusing on healthcare, creative new state of the art film, TV and and business entrepreneurship media studios facility. to be built in later phases of the regeneration. Thurrock These form part of the Masterplan Council are fully aware of these proposals submitted by PCRL to ambitions and formal approval is Thurrock Council late last year. It’s being sought from the Council. intended that the studios will begin operation in 2022. These innovative It is intended that these exciting new studios are now in discussions through facilities will deliver much needed CBRE Capital Markets with occupiers training for NHS staff linked to the and investors. This exciting news builds proposed Integrated Medical Centre on the back of the Thames Gateway and on the job media training linked to initiatives that have already attracted the new Quartermaster film, TV and cultural icons such as the Royal Opera media studios facility. LSBU have just House thus helping to create 1000’s of been awarded their distinction by the new jobs in the area. Sunday Times and The Times rated them ‘the University of the Year for Graduate Employment’ in the Good University Guide 2018. Contact us www.ourpurfleet.com @OurPurfleet A regeneration delivered by Purfleet Centre Regeneration Limited in partnership with Thurrock Council. PCRL is a joint venture with Urban Catalyst Limited and Swan Housing Association. Quartermaster Holdings Limited will deliver the film, TV and media studios facility. Visit: www.ourpurfleet.com to find out more and pledge your support for this regeneration #OurPurfleet - Our Future!.