Newham Council last night called for the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation (LTGDC) to scrap a proposal to build 1,500 houses and a nursing home next to Europe’s largest sewage works.
At a planning committee meeting National Grid property’s plans for the 60-acre former Beckton gasworks, on the north bank of the River Thames, were slammed by the council.
The council was being consulted on its views of the scheme before the LTGDC decides if it will grant planning consent.
‘I personally will not subject anyone to this proposal,’ said Newham Council’s planning committee chair Ron Manley. ‘Especially as they want to put an old people’s home here (next to the sewage works). I can’t believe it.’
Isolated and unsustainable
A planning report for the scheme criticised the proposals for creating an ‘isolated and unsustainable community.’
It also said that the site was not suitable for residential development, a 22-storey building in the proposal invades London City Airport’s safeguarding zone and the quality of design was lacking.
‘While it is important to take account of all points of view it is our objective to bring this derelict land back into beneficial community use,’ said a spokesman for National Grid Property. ‘London Thames Gateway Development Corporation is the determining authority for the planning application.’
For more details see tomorrow’s Property Week.
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