Beam River

Beam River

administrative boundary Barking&Dagenham - Havering

River Thames

Ingrebourne River

Green Belt boundary

River Roding

LOCAL BOROUGH OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM

LOCAL BOROUGH OF HAVERING

Barking Riverside

under construction

Dagenham Riverside

industries

Dagenham

Barking town centre

EUROPEAN LEVEL Europe 2020 and

United Kingdom provisions

The London Plan LOCAL LEVEL

Borough of Barking and Dagenham

Barking and Dagenham Local Development Plan

CITY LEVEL Greater London

Authority

NATIONAL LEVEL United Kingdom Planning Guidances

-4000 -3000 -2000 -1000 0 1000 2000 3000

Housing Target

Cumulative difference

between target and completion

NEW HOUSING

DEVELOPMENT NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES

CREATING LOCAL WORK

REQUALIFYING THE URBAN CONTEXT

PROJECT SITE 4

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London Sustainable Industries Park

New Barking Estates and civic centre

5 London Businesseast Academy Central New Barking Riverside

London Sustainable Industries Park

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3 New Barking Estates and civic centre

The Barking riverside has been for years a critical area because of the diffused brownfield land left by the deindustrialization.

The new masterplan was developed by Maxwan Architects and will be built within the next 20 years.

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5 London Businesseast Academy Central

London Businesseast

PROJECT SITE

The project proposes housing for 25000 people in 11000 new homes, urban facilities (shops, bars, restaurants, recreation, sports), schools, a large urban park, multiple public squares, ecological values and an animated riverfront resulting in 2000 new jobs.

In 2010, a new masterplan for developing this partially abandoned area was presented. The project, called the London Sustainable Industries Park (LSIP), propose a restructuring of the industrial park, which will be mixed with a business destination, offering up to 75,000 square meters of land with infrastructure.

The key idea is to enable a sharing of resources and exchange by-products between businesses. The LSIP project will surely provide opportunities for environmental technology businesses, thus generating and attracting new skilled employment in the area of Barking and Dagenham.

Set in the historic centre of Barking, a whole new civic centre was completed in 2010. It

includes a new Learning Centre, retail and housing units, and many open spaces and leisure areas. The project was delivered during 9 years, with the

different buildings designed by various architectural firms.

The spaces between this new townscape were designed by Muf architecture.

An interesting concept of the masterplan is how the new modern design cooperate with old

buildings. Barking Central has created a vibrant, dense and high quality townscape that has

reconnected and improved the livability of the historic centre.

The old East London University campus it is now being

transformed in a housing site by Taylor Wimpey residential

developers, under the name of Academy Central.

During the last two decades, the University of East London decided to shift most of its activities in the newer campus of the

Docklands, eventually closing the old campus in 2006.

The new housing estate promises to be one of the most

environmentally friendly places in the borough to live. The developers have kept the old building exactly as it was on the outside to preserve this

fantastic piece of the borough's history.old building exactly as it was on the outside to preserve this piece of the borough's

history.

The former Dagenham plant of global pharmaceutical manufacturer, Sanofi, was closed in 2010. The site was then scheduled to be transformed as part of an employment led masterplan for the site, called London

Businesseast.

When completed, the 4 hectares complex will have a campus-style environment, which will provide business space to let on long-term leases or short-term licences.

The environment is conceived for existing businesses looking to expand or for start-up companies engaged in scientific research who require immediate access to

specialist facilities and support services. All of this would have been prohibitively expensive to build from scratch, underlining the hugely attractive offer the area provides thanks to the conversion of the pre-existing manufactory.

The chosen site is north of the Ford Plant and the Riverside, on the edge of the industrial area of southern Dagenham.

It includes what once was the Ford Stamping Plant and its related lands.

The site was included among the former Key Regeneration Areas of the 2010 Barking and Dagenham Development Plan.

A sensible goal for the

development would be to activate the area, to make it accessible for all the residents of the boroughs and transform it into a focal point. A connection with the Barking riverside would work as a generator for a new economy, attract new commercial businesses and retain and generate jobs in the area.

Medium to high density housing

Green

spaces Other

(work/public)

Working Leisure

Medium to high density housing

Education:

primary and second.

Public facilities

Work/offices Small retail

Medium retail

Public parking Green spaces

Medium to high density housing

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spaces Work

Education Industries and

businesses

Green spaces

Public facilities Freight

infrastructure ight rastructure

facilities

Leisure Small retail

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Public Industries and

businesses

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Bromley Barnet

Havering

Croydon Enfield

Hillingdon

Bexley Ealing

Brent Harrow

Sutton Hounslow

Redbridge

Merton

Newham

Greenwich

Lewisham Haringey

Camden

Wandsworth

Lambeth Southwark

Richmond upon Thames

Waltham Forest

Hackney

Westminster

Barking and Dagenham Islington

Tower Hamlets Hammersmith and Fulham

Green Belt inner boundary

Thames gateway area

Localization in Greater London Barking and Dagenham district

The Greater London extent includes 32 boroughs.

It includes the inner London and outer London municipalities, which are growing at different but sustained paces.

In the case of Barking and Dagenham, the

expansion was a continuous phenomenon that place its roots in its peculiar past.

Barking flourished as a fishing port from the 1400s. In these early times, Barking economic life was mainly related to an important

historical site, the Barking Abbey [1], until its destruction in 1538.

After the loss of its religious centre, the borough’s expansion kept increasing mainly because of its proximity to London, and grew as a fishermen community until late 1800.

During the 1900, as the fishing industry

declined, new activities moved into the area.

An extensive housing area was built for those who fought in World War I was built, the Becontree Estates [2]. In the same years, the Ford Motor Company [3] was opened. Both these new constructions would have thoroughly characterized the borough for the years to come.

Today, Barking and Dagenham reflects the growth of the outer London areas; furthermore, it has an increasing household need which places it over the mean growth needs of the other London boroughs.

Key development areas: ongoing projects and opportunity sites

Aree chiave di sviluppo: opportunità e progetti in realizzazione

Former Ford Stamping Plant (closed in 2013)

Unused land / landfill District centre

High density housing

Low density housing

Low to high density housing

In development:

medium to high density housing

Multiple type facilities Multiple type

facilities

Education | other public facilities

Small and medium sized retail stores

Public parks

In development:

green and leisure spaces

Leisure and green spaces

Ford engine manufacturing

Former Ford Stamping Plant (closed in 2013)

Unused land / landfill

Other low-emitting industries

Warehouses, stock and wholesales Import-export freight facilities

Leisure and green spaces Low density housing Education|public facilities|other

High density housing

Office/work places

Industries/freight infrastructure Medium density housing

18% 15%

12%

8%

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12%

30%

Redevelopment in progress

Land-use surface on

total %

Dagenham Centre

Dagenham Riverside industries New Barking Riverside

Freight infrastructure area

Barking town centre

Beacontree Estates

Beacontree

Barking Riverside

Dagenham Riverside Barking

Dagenham

SITE

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BARKING AND DAGENHAM URBAN CONTEXT L’AREA DI INTERVENTO NEL SUO CONTESTO

A GROWING COMMUNITY

STORIA E CRESCITA DEL COMUNE

BOROUGH CHARACTER: GROWTH AND REDEVELOPMENTS OPPORTUNITIES

CARATTERE, CRESCITA E AREE DI RIQUALIFICAZIONE PREVISTE NEL COMUNE

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River Roding

River Thames

Beam River

Ingrebourne River

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Kilometers

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Barking abbey

Docks and warehouses

Barking

historical centre

Coal power station and small industries Dagenham

historical centre

Polluted brownfield from former

coal station

Ford Car manifactury (opened 1931) Becontree estates (started 1920s)

Small industries

Polluted brownfield from former

coal power station Expanded borough of Barking

Industrial zone 1960-today Ford stamping plant

(opened 1965)

1920s 1940s 1980s

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The chosen site lies within the Thames riverside area, in the borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is on the north bank of the Thames, three miles east of the City of London.

The site is part of the Thames

Gateway Area, is one of the l argest sites of planned development in London. This is stretching from Westferry in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets to the Isle of Sheppey at the North Sea coast.

The area has a growing urban environment and a peculiar industrial past, making it an interesting but problematic location for any redevelopment. At the same time, the prospected growth of the Borough conveys an urgent and radical urban intervention.

The project aims to outline an overall plan for a largely unused area in the Borough, with the purpose of activating its potentials while reconnecting the urban context – therefore providing for the Borough growth needs.

Il sito scelto si trova nel distretto di Barking e Dagenham. La zona, detta South Dagenham, si trova a circa 2 chilometri a Nord del Tamigi, ed una distanza simile la separa dalla Green Belt, l’area verde che separa l’area amministrativa della Greater London dalle esterne zone rurali.

Il Comune è in parte incluso nel Thames Gateway, una estesa area per la quale sono pianificati vari interventi di rigenerazione urbana, che da Westferry, presso Tower Hamlets, si sviluppa fino all’Isola di Sheppey e la costa del Mare del Nord. Questa area ha negli anni dato il via a molti interventi di riqualificazione anche nei suoi dintorni, come per l’intervento di Canary Wharf e l’Isle of Dogs.

L’area urbana del Comune è al momento una zona in marcata espansione; è caratterizzata da un notevole passato industriale, che la rendono di

spiccato interesse per interventi di riqualificazione. Questa caratterizzazione è la ragione di molte delle problematiche di Barking e Dagenham, tra le quali spicca un notevole mancanza di connessione del tessuto urbano. Allo stesso tempo, la crescita prevista dai piani di sviluppo del Comune rende necessario un intervento urbano per la zona sud del Comune, South Dagenham, nella quale il sito è inserito.

Site context and history

Inquadramento storico-territoriale 1

Università di Pisa Facoltà di Ingegneria

Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria Edile-Architettura Titolo tesi Managing the growth.

Barking and Dagenham site development proposal

Candidato Alessio Lombardi

Relatori prof. Ing. Valerio Cutini - Università di Pisa

prof.ssa Enriqueta Llabres Valls - The Bartlett School of Architecture, London Relational Urbanism Ltd., London

Tesi sviluppata in collaborazione con Relational Urbanism Ltd., London

The Bartlett School of Architecture, London

Anno accademico 2014-2015

Appello Dicembre 2015

Relational Urbanism Ltd

Planning and consulting