Thames Gateway

London's booming economy and growing population are a major success story. By 2016, London's population is expected to grow by the equivalent of six cities the size of Cambridge.

The London Thames Gateway holds the key to this success continuing. Together with the London 2012 Games, it offers an unparalleled opportunity to inject investment, opportunity, and ambition into London's East End.

The London part of the Thames Gateway stretches from the Isle of Dogs through East London to the Thames Estuary.

The scale of development and change in the Thames Gateway is our chance to make major advances in the use of environmental innovations and to create the demand that makes them pay.

It has the potential to:

• accommodate a significant amount of London’s housing growth over the next quarter century, including 100,000 new homes by 2016; 
• be an exemplary environmental region at the cutting edge of new zero carbon technologies and adapting to the affects of climate change;
• offer a range of new business and employment opportunities for residents, entrepreneurs and investors.

The London Development Agency (LDA) is one of the largest landowners in the area, with more than 600 acres of land.

It is working closely with public and private partners to deliver sustainable communities, with new homes, jobs, open spaces and infrastructure, including transport, education and health services.

The LDA has developed a sites database of major development sites in the London Thames Gateway. This database holds detailed information on each site and is an important information resource for property developers and public sector partners.

For more information contact:
Fiona Duncan email: fionaduncan@lda.gov.uk