Canning Town
Where
Canning Town and Custom House area is in the south of the Lower
Lea Valley on the Thames – opposite the Greenwich peninsula.
Key outputs by 2016:
LTGDC aims to deliver:
- 2,300 new homes
- 2,150 new jobs
- LTGDC investment: £44m
- Private sector investment: £795m
About the area
Canning Town and Custom House are the focal point of
a multi-billion regeneration scheme to transform an area once
identified as among the worst 10 per cent in the UK, measured by
poor health, low education and poverty.
The recently updated masterplan for the area envisages
approximately 10,000 new homes plus 50,000 square
metres of retail and commercial development opposite the transport
interchange at Canning Town station (currently served by the
Docklands Light Railway and Jubilees Line and London Buses). Work
on a new town centre is due to start in 2009 with the
implementation of Catalytic Infrastructure Development
expected to start 2010/11.
LTGDC projects
LTGDC has been working with the London Borough of Newham to
prepare the area for transformation through buying back leasehold
interests, finding new homes for tenants, and demolishing outdated
and unused buildings in the area.
The next phase will see the new town centre developed with a new
community building providing health services, shops, a revitalised
market and a library.
LTGDC has also been helping to assemble the land needed along
Silvertown Way for a mixed use re-development led by
approximately 800 new homes.
Because of the disruptive nature of the project for local
people, LTGDC has commissioned a temporary resource centre – called
The Place and due to open in May 2008 - with a café and meeting
place providing information on regeneration and local service
issues, a job brokerage scheme and an on site office for the Safer
Neighbourhood team.
Other projects
Canning Town station will be a transfer point to the Olympic
Park and Woolwich from the Jubilee Line and Docklands Light Railway
– new branch lines are currently under construction.
The Canning Town Roundabout has been identified as a major
barrier to the future growth of the town centre. The funding for
the removal of the A13 Roundabout has been secured and
construction works are due to start late 2009, early 2010. This
project will be complete in 2011, well before the Olympics.
Custom House has been identified as one of the stations on the
Woolwich branch of Crossrail – the high speed rail link under
central London to Paddington and Heathrow airport due for
completion in 2017.