Dockland 2.0

The whole area from Woolwich Ferry Roundabout to Anchor and Hope Lane would benefit greatly from being torn down and started again. The issues are where do all the industrial companies based there go, how do you ensure the road infrastructure isn't completely and utterly fucked (even more so than it is now) and what do you do to ensure public transportation in the area is sufficient? 

All well and good building a shite tonne of new fancy homes there, but it needs everything around it to be much better, Woolwich Road is down to a single lane along much of it and a bus lane, maybe Bugsby's Way can extend Eastwards closer to the Thames and link up at Ruston Road Roundabout, creating a ring road of sorts around the area? Would help with traffic somewhat and mean smoother transitions into the Silvertown Tunnel can be made at Blackwall Lane roundabout at the other end. 

Ideally a new arm of the DLR too wouldn't be amiss, running along from Thamesmead to North Greenwich or even further and into Wood Wharf/Canary Wharf linking the two sides of the river further and taking the strain off the Jubilee line and buses at North Greenwich.

Then you have the problem of green spaces, other than Barrier Park there is nothing until you get to the parks in the Millennium Village on the Peninsula, or going southwards to Maryon Park. Perhaps Barrier Park can be extended westwards across the Industrial estates, creating a green belt through the middle of this new neighborhood?

All pie in the sky anyway, they'll never get it done properly and all that will happen is a few random tower blocks in one part will spring up with "Riverside Views" emblazoned on the brochures, that will sit there trying to sell a 2 bed 2 bathroom flat for 750k

clive said:

https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2023/07/27/docklands-2-0-plans-for-charlton-and-thamesmead-could-be-forced-through-by-government/

These new homes they promise aren't really homes though are they, they will end up being the same copy and pasted high-rise 1-2 bedroom flats that reside on the Woolwich Arsenal. Hardly affordable and a massive strain on already struggling public services. On top of this can only imagine the congestion up and down Woolwich road.

kentaddick said:

Let's hope it goes better than nine elms which is a ghost town.

Was always the intension. 

randy andy said:

GetYerCoreyOut said:

kentaddick said:

GetYerCoreyOut said:

clive said:

https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2023/07/27/docklands-2-0-plans-for-charlton-and-thamesmead-could-be-forced-through-by-government/

These new homes they promise aren't really homes though are they, they will end up being the same copy and pasted high-rise 1-2 bedroom flats that reside on the Woolwich Arsenal. Hardly affordable and a massive strain on already struggling public services. On top of this can only imagine the congestion up and down Woolwich road.

then invest more in public services? 

More likely to see a cut in public services at the moment, turbulent times.

There is absolutely no excuse for a cut in services. These plans calls for 17k new homes to built. At £200 a month council tax, that's an additional £40m a year in funding for the local authority to invest in public services.

Public services need to include GP services for 17k plus new people. Quite where those GP’s are found remains to be seen. There will also be the increased pressure on local hospitals. Particularly QE which is already stretched to its limit. These are aspects that developers are least interested in for obvious reasons. It will require central government financial support which we all know will be inadequate. Done properly 17k new homes in the SE7 / SE18 river corridor is very good but it must be done correctly. What’s the chances of that ?

randy andy said:

GetYerCoreyOut said:

kentaddick said:

GetYerCoreyOut said:

clive said:

https://greenwichwire.co.uk/2023/07/27/docklands-2-0-plans-for-charlton-and-thamesmead-could-be-forced-through-by-government/

These new homes they promise aren't really homes though are they, they will end up being the same copy and pasted high-rise 1-2 bedroom flats that reside on the Woolwich Arsenal. Hardly affordable and a massive strain on already struggling public services. On top of this can only imagine the congestion up and down Woolwich road.

then invest more in public services? 

More likely to see a cut in public services at the moment, turbulent times.

There is absolutely no excuse for a cut in services. These plans calls for 17k new homes to built. At £200 a month council tax, that's an additional £40m a year in funding for the local authority to invest in public services.

Or to cover the £40m cut in central government funding?