The Government announced a new £237 million programme of measures to reinvigorate areas in the London Thames Gateway. Over the next three years, around 7,900 new jobs will be created and 8,200 new homes built by creating the right conditions for investment.
Spearheading this transformation is the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC), which will drive forward the plan for regeneration in eight key areas.
Along with creating jobs, affordable family homes and parkland spaces, a programme of infrastructure improvements will be carried out to ensure communities that have, until now, been isolated are interlinked to each other through road improvements or installing pathways and bridges.
This announcement is part of a wider regeneration programme, which will ensure major changes by 2016 and create new homes, estimated at:
