CITY IN THE EAST CITY IN THE EAST 200,000 homes 280,000 jobs Enfield 600,000 Londoners Barnet Harrow Haringey Waltham Redbridge Forest Havering Brent Barking & Hackney Whilst the Thames Gateway didn’t lack for land, much of Camden Islington Dagenham it was heavily contaminated and demand for development Newham for both housing and commercial was rather thin at that Tower Hamlets time. City East was in part a polemical piece and so wasn’t Hillingdon Ealing Westminster founded in the statutory planning system it was looking to K&C challenge. Which meant it couldn’t influence development. Southwark H&F Greenwich It was also in its own way like the borough plans a world of Hounslow Lambeth Lewisham its own, rather than a part of the wider city. Bexley Boris Johnson Mayor of London Wandsworth Richmond upon Ten years later London’s growth is driving a renewed Thames interest in the east, and the potential exists to plan for it as part of the city rather than apart from the city. This Kingston Merton In mid-2000 Richard Rogers, who lead the Mayor’s plan is necessary to efficiently manage the allocation of upon Architecture and Urbanism Unit, felt that what was needed Thames commercial, industrial, retail and housing land across the Bromley in the Thames Gateway was a big idea, to capture the wider east of London and to consider relationships beyond Croydon imagination, something that seemed to be absent from Sutton the GLA boundary into Thurrock and Dartford. Importantly, the debate about its future. This resulted in City East, a we have the opportunity to achieve a better fit between plan for the Royal Docks that radically changed its land transport plans and spatial plans and to use the GLA’s and use. Gone was the Victorian Tate and Lyle syrup and borough’s land holdings to speed up delivery. canning factory, the meat rendering plant and City Airport (to allow greater building heights). The Royals was re- 0 5 10 km Until recently London could rely on existing infrastructure imagined as a city in its own right. A plan that at the time provision but as the population increases this is no was not a million miles from the plans that developers like County of London boundary (1943) longer the case. Experience with the Vauxhall Nine Elms Abercrombie’s 1943 County of London plan overlaid Ballymore, who had purchased extensive riverside sites had City in the East - development areas Development Infrastructure Funding Study (DIFs), and City in the East - Opportunity Areas commissioned for themselves. on the 2015 Greater London Authority coverage area subsequently at White City and Old Oak show the benefit of providing spatial plans with a firm foundation in viability There was a reasonable frustration about the slowness and costed programmes for transport, social and utilities of the statutory planning system, by both AUU and infrastructure. But this isn’t just about numbers. The GLA is working with The timing to plan as an integrated part of the wider city developers, to actively plan for change rather than just its partners to deliver a suite of Opportunity Area Planning couldn’t be better. The majority of borough plan core describing and protecting the present status quo. The My Infrastructure Plan and its associated Board has Frameworks that form a credible spatial plan. They will strategies are about to be reviewed, the London Plan Thames Gateway never lacked for visions and masterplans provided the locus and means to get the buy in and provide the narrative for the delivery of London’s largest review will commence post May 2016 and TfL’s plans are of all shapes and sizes, but it always seemed to lack any involvement of utility providers at a senior level in the plan remaining contiguous development opportunity within its progressing at pace. There is developer interest, there are coherent idea about its purpose within the wider city. making and plan delivery process. current boundaries - The City in the East. significant public land holdings being brought forward for As a consequence the plans didn’t really gel together. delivery and there is strong local and strategic leadership Understandable given that in 2005 the planning of London My Housing SPG identifies that with the agreement of This scale of development isn’t going to be delivered to deliver the long heralded City in the East. and planners in London were still trying to get used to the Boroughs a fixed percentage of affordable homes overnight. To avoid adding further monuments in the the idea of planning the city as a whole rather than as 32 can be set in the Opportunity Areas and Housing Zones Thames Gateway master plan graveyard, these frameworks The Abercrombie County of London Plan stopped at the separate boroughs. based on the viability of development. This will provide will be sufficiently robust and flexible to withstand the Lee River, beyond which was Essex and Kent. Part of our greater certainty for the delivery of all types and tenures of test of time whilst providing sufficient discipline to create work is to try to overturn the historic perception of the The consequences of trying to resolve land allocation, housing. desirable places in which to live and work. east being seen as apart from London, rather than as a and particularly housing and industrial allocation within part of London. It is time to reclaim the City in the East individual borough boundary red lines were significant. That the scale of potential change has increased for London! Newham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich and Barking and dramatically can be seen on the plan overleaf. The East Dagenham are not far apart geographically, but the way London Opportunity areas in 2004 were estimated to their local plans articulated their futures, they may as have a minimum capacity for 52,000 homes. In 2015 that well have been different worlds. In turn the London Plan has increased to over 200,000 (as a minimum). As work whilst providing a written description of what the Thames progresses on the frameworks, and more detailed physical Gateway might be, didn’t provide any spatial guidance as planning is carried out, more development capacity is to what this might look like on a plan. usually found. CITY IN THE EAST NUMBERS Towards Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Great Yarmouth CITY IN THE EAST WIDER SOUTH EAST LB WALTHAM J28 LB ENFIELD FOREST A12 M11 Towards Stansted and LB REDBRIDGE S O U T H E S S E X LB HARINGEY Cambridge ROMFORD METROPOLITAN G R E A T E R L O N D O N Towards Basildon, TOWN CENTRE A127 Southend-on-Sea Gospel Oak to A12 Barking Line ILFORD J29 North Circular Road Upper Lee Valley A406 METROPOLITAN Crossrail Area: 3,900 ha TOWN CENTRE STRATFORD Ilford LB BARKING LB HACKNEY METROPOLITAN Area: 85 ha LB HAVERING TOWN CENTRE & DAGENHAM M25 Thames Enterprise LB NEWHAM Riverside London Riverside BARKING Area: 3,000 ha Park Stratford Tunnel 400 homes International MAJOR 2,000 jobs TOWN Dagenham Proposed THE Royal Docks A13 Dock Station Beam Park LB TOWER Lower Lee Valley and Beckton CENTRE Station (c2c) CITY (incl. Stratford) Waterfront Potential Area: 1,400 ha new station HAMLETS Area: 1,100 ha Barking Rainham Riverside Village City Roding link A13 DP WORLD Airport to Royal Docks Extension to Belvedere/Rainham Abbey Wood River Crossing LONDON GATEWAY New Capacity: 3.5 million TEU Canada Water river crossing A2016 Junction J30 Area: 46 ha improvement LAKESIDE REGIONAL London Bridge, CANARY WHARF Crossrail High Speed 1 Abbey J31 Borough MAJOR TOWN CENTRE and Bankside Wood TOWN CENTRE Homes: 3,000 Area: 155 ha Lower Retail, leisure, recreation Pureet Urban Thames Greenwich Peninsula Charlton Riverside Woolwich Thamesmead and Bexley Riverside Regeneration Hub Crossing Area: 259 ha Area: 176 ha Area: 77 ha Area: 1,347 ha Abbey Wood upto 2,600 dwellings Option A Area: 811 ha TV & lm studios, commercial, London Deptford Creek/ and retail Paramount Greenwich Riverside Dartford Crossing Lower Entertainment Area: 165 ha Thames LB BEXLEY Resort A2 J1 PORT OF Crossing Option C LB SOUTHWARK TILBURY RB GREENWICH Ebbseet International A205 South Circular Road LB LEWISHAM J2 EBBSFLEET GARDEN CITY Homes: 15,000 A20 N O R T H K E N T Opportunity Areas J3 GLA Green Belt M20 RELATIONSHIP TO M25 0 1 2 3 4 5 kms Green Belt W I D E R S O U T H - E A S T Towards Canterbury and Dover Towards Maidstone, Ashford and Folkestone CITY IN THE EAST LANDUSE LAND USE PLAN FOR CITY IN THE EAST Brimsdown London needs to accommodate a growing population within its boundaries and so needs to make the most of its land assets. Underused industrial land has in the past been seen as providing the main reservoir for additional housing Ponders End / Brimsdown capacity. The choice has often been seen as a binary one of n y housing vs industry. v w a o e d s h f m But the growing city also needs to function economically i o r n B and the growth in employment in Central London and o i d Enfield t the need to service the wider population, particularly n a a d i with the growth of on line retailing is driving demand for l h t o r s distribution and logistics operations, and the growth of o n n o e waste recycling and the closed loop economy, whilst at the c h d t n same time London continues to the home of successful and Meridian Water a o t n s growing manufacturing businesses.