About our area
Introduction
London Thames Gateway Development Corporation is responsible for
the East London section of the Thames Gateway - Europe’s largest
regeneration project stretching 40 miles either side of the Thames
estuary from Canary Wharf in the west to Southend in Essex and
Sittingbourne in Kent in the east.
There are already approximately 1.45 million people living in
the Thames Gateway with plans for 160,000 new homes and the
creation of 180,000 jobs by 2016 across the region.
LTGDC’s role
LTGDC has responsibility for transforming the London part
of the Thames Gateway. The area is one of the most challenging to
regenerate in London, with some of the highest levels of
deprivation in the country, but it also has young and diverse
communities and possibly the greatest investment potential in
London with space for growth and redevelopment.
With the London Thames Gateway area, LTGDC has chosen two areas
where potential is high, but market forces alone have not been
sufficient to make significant change. These two areas are the
Lower Lea Valley and the London Riverside.
The Lower Lea Valley
This covers 900 hectares from the south of the 2012 Games site
at Stratford to the River Thames
The London Riverside
The London Riverside extends over 2,300 hectares along 12km of
the north bank of the Thames from Beckton in the west to Rainham in
the east.
In both areas LTGDC aims to create environmentally advanced
homes and industries, in extensive parkland and waterways settings
where people will choose to live and work.
To prosper, the area will need an efficient transport network,
economic activity and a workforce suitably skilled for employment
opportunities in the 21st Century.