Barking Riverside

Barking Riverside
Rivergate Centre
Barking Riverside is located in Greater London
Barking Riverside
Barking Riverside
Location within Greater London
OS grid referenceTQ466825
• Charing Cross10.5 mi (16.9 km) W
London borough
Ceremonial countyGreater London
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBARKING
Postcode districtIG11
Dialling code020
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51°31′22″N 0°06′45″E / 51.5228°N 0.1124°E / 51.5228; 0.1124

Barking Riverside is a mixed-use development in the area of Barking, east London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is being built on land formerly occupied by Barking Power Station, adjacent to the River Thames, and is 10.5 miles (16.9 km) east of Charing Cross. The 440 acre brownfield site has planning permission for 10,800 homes.[1]

As planning restrictions prevented more than 1,200 homes without adequate transport links,[2] the London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking line has been extended to Barking Riverside to allow the development to be completed as planned[3] and the new station opened on 18 July 2022.

Between 1995 and 2000, Bellway Homes built 900 homes and since 2004 the development has been managed by Barking Riverside Ltd, a partnership between GLA Land and Property and Bellway. Building work under this partnership commenced in 2010 and the first homes were occupied in 2012.

In 2016, housing association L&Q bought out Bellway's stake in Barking Riverside Ltd, entering into a joint venture with the GLA to deliver the remaining new homes.[4] There will be three neighbourhood centres and when complete in the 2030s, the development as a whole will have a population of approximately 26,000.[1]

  1. ^ a b "New Build Homes in East London". Barking Riverside. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Boris Johnson calls for creation of new 'garden suburb' in Barking and Dagenham". Evening Standard. London. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ^ Tim Burrows (17 August 2015). "No cafe, no pub, no doctor in London's most isolated suburb". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  4. ^ "L&Q buys out Bellway at 11,000-home Barking Riverside".