£164M infrastructure agreed for Gateway

03 August 2007

Two east London councils have approved a programme of transport investment totalling £164M, to unlock capacity for thousands of homes in Kent Thameside.

The new transport infrastructure approved by the cabinets of Dartford Borough Council and Gravesham Borough Council includes traffic management, public transport, and improved highway junctions.

This will enable the building of more than 6,000 new homes at Eastern Quarry – part of Land Securities’ flagship Ebbsfleet Valley development – and also allow access to a 10,000 proposed homes yet to receive planning permission in Kent Thameside.

The money comes in the form of £74M government Thames Gateway funding from the Department of Communities and Local Government and Department for Transport, £40m from Land Securities in respect of the Eastern Quarry development, and a ‘tariff’ to be paid by developers, likely to be set at a rate of £5,000 per dwelling, in respect of the further 10,000 homes yet to be built.

Kent Thameside says the package demonstrates the Government’s commitment to what will be a 20-year development, to benefit the whole of the wider Gateway region. The package has been brokered by the Kent Thameside Delivery Board, the public-private partnership which leads on co-ordination in the Kent Thameside area.

Michael Ward, chief executive of Kent Thameside delivery board, said: ‘We are pleased to see this scheme moving forward. It is central to the sustainable regeneration of Kent Thameside. This constructive solution to a difficult problem has been achieved as a result of the trust now established between the partners. We now have a way forward.’ Kent Thameside’s Strategic Transport Plan sets out a proposal for securing a long-term transport investment programme for the area, which is intended to encourage sustainable transport use and mitigate congestion caused by new developments.

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