Part of the Thames Gateway
The Thames Gateway is the UK's largest regeneration programme,
stretching for 40 miles along the Thames Estuary from the London
Docklands to Southend in Essex and Sheerness in Kent.
London Thames Gateway holds the key to the future expansion of
London as a world city, and to the continued economic growth of the
Greater South East. It is also a strategically important economic
location positioned between London and mainland Europe.
The Government’s aims for the Thames Gateway are:
- build a vibrant economy with an aspiration to achieve 225,000
new jobs
- improve the quality of life for residents of the Gateway -
with an ambition to provide 160,000 good quality homes at all
levels of affordability for existing and new communities, reviving
town centres, improving public services and providing a better
environment through the Thames Gateway Parklands programme
- establish the Gateway as an eco-region, ensuring that
development is in keeping with our ambition for carbon reduction
and sustainable regeneration.
LTGDC’s interventions are focused on eight
key project areas in the Lower Lea
Valley and London Riverside, where
market failure has been most significant and we can make the
biggest difference.