Future London

Future London is a new resource presenting a glimpse of the exciting regeneration project taking place across the capital. This new resource showcases schemes under development from masterplans to construction sites. It will illustrate all the different facets of the capital’s future potential, particularly in east London, an area undergoing massive regeneration with the Olympic Park and the Thames Gateway. 

Key sponsors and supporters of Future London include King's Place, English Partnerships and Barking Riverside Ltd.

Barking Riverside

Barking Riverside is one of the major regeneration sites for the Thames Gateway. One of the largest brownfield sites in Europe, this development that will include 10,800 new homes built in four phases over the next 20 years. The development is being built by Barking Riverside Ltd, a joint venture company between housebuilder Bellway plc and English Partnerships (the nationBarking main masterplanal regeneration agency). The 350 acre site will be transformed into a waterfront community for 26,000 people, which aims to set new standards for sustainable living in London. The holistic approach will ensure that social and community facilities as well as vital transport infrastructure are delivered: the former include two new primary schools and one secondary school, neighbourhood and district shopping centres, public access to 2km of the Thames waterfront, and an ecology park. Integrating Barking Riverside with the surrounding area will be facilitated by East London Transit (ELT), principally serving the early phases of the scheme and improving links with the transport hub at Barking Town Centre. Transport links will also be improved by a proposed Docklands Light Railway (DLR) extension to Barking town centre.

The planning agreement, signed with the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham, guarantees the provision of at least 30% family accommodation and 41% affordable housing. The homes will benefit from flexibility of tenure and high-quality design, ensuring that Barking Riverside is sustainabBarking housingle in the long term. A new Community Development Trust (CDT) will enable local people to have ownership of part of the new community and the opportunity to have their say over community buildings and public open space, which constitutes 40% of the site. Architects Sheppard Robson and KCAP-ML were selected as the design team for phases 1 and 2 of Barking Riverside. The design teams will be running a Building Competition to encourage young people to come up with ideas (the more creative the better) and show them how well-designed buildings really can improve the character of the street, and ultimately improve people’s living conditions.

English Partnerships

London-Wide Initiative

The London-Wide Initiative (LWI) is achieving its objective of helping the capital’s key workers get a foot on the property ladder by utilising public sector land value combined with private sector investment to generate additional affordable properties across 16 development sites. The initiative is led by English Partnerships, the national regeneration agency, and three development partners are helping deliver these sites: First Base, Key London Alliance and a consortium led by Countryside Properties plc. Communities and Local Government, the Greater London Authority and the Housing Corporation are also partners in the LWI. In November 2007, First Base completed the first RIBA award winning LWI scheme at Adelaide Wharf in Shoreditch. Other schemes are under construction in Wandsworth, Southwark, Hounslow and Camden. In total, LWI will deliver 1500 homes for key workers within an overall programme of 5000 units.

Greenwich Peninsula

Greenwich Peninsula is one of the single largest regeneration schemes in London. It will include homes for 25,000 people (providing jobs for 24,000 people), shops, restaurants, parks, healthcare facilities, schools and a world-class entertainment complex, as well as the O2 entertainment centre. The new community will be served with modern transport connections linking the site to central London in 20 minutes.
Over the next 15 years 10,000 homes, built to the highest environment standards, will be set in distinctive new neighbourhoods, built around squares, streets and gardens. Greenwich Peninsula is being developed by Lend Lease and Quintain Estates and Development PLC in joint venture, working with English Partnerships.

Greenwich Millennium Village

Greenwich Millennium Village is the first of English Partnerships’ Millennium Communities, and achieves high standards for sustainable development. The Village, located to the south of Greenwich Peninsula, is being developed by Greenwich Millennium Village Ltd (GMVL), a joint venture between Countryside Properties and Taylor Wimpey. GMVL works in association with its social housing partners Moat Housing Group.
The first residents were welcomed to their award-winning new homes in December 2000. Over 950 homes have now been built and occupied, including a number of live/work units, with further homes currently under construction. A state-of-the art integrated school and health centre funded by English Partnerships opened in 2001.

 

 

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