London Riverside Opportunity Area Planning Framework

The draft London Riverside Opportunity Area Planning Framework (LROAPF) has been published for consultation. The framework has been produced by the GLA working with the London boroughs of Newham, Barking and Dagenham and Havering, as well as the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation.

The LROAPF area covers over 3 000 hectares of east London, encompassing parts of each of the three boroughs.  The area is characterised by extensive areas of brownfield land, and recent years have seen low levels of development activity. This presents great opportunities to capitalise on the area’s benefits in terms of land availability, its good location and its outstanding green areas in order to facilitate new housing, jobs and supporting facilities.

Sustainability is an important theme that runs through the document. London Riverside is already part of a wider Green Enterprise District and home to a more concentrated Sustainable Industries District. Energy, waste and water are dealt with in some detail and the way they are inter-connected is brought out.

The vision for London Riverside is set out in the form of nine themes:

• Intensification of Barking and Rainham town centres and new emerging centres
• Ensuring new jobs and services benefit existing communities
• Facilitating delivery of new housing to meet local and wider needs
• Improving London Riverside as a place to live for new and existing communities
• Delivering a coherent public realm strategy building on the Green Grid and natural water courses
• Delivering a conservation park as a recreational resource at Rainham Marshes
• Attracting investment through improved transport infrastructure
• Delivering the Green Enterprise District in London Riverside to pioneer green technologies
• Developing London Riverside Employment Area and East Beckton into world class sustainable industries districts

The draft OAPF is available to download below. The consultation ran until  Friday 9 March 2012.

Your comments should be sent by email to the Mayor at lroapf@london.gov.uk or by letter to:

Mayor of London
City Hall
The Queen’s Walk
LONDON, SE1 2AA. 

Please include the topic and page number that the comment relates to.