Our Regeneration

Approaches

5 different regeneration approaches identified from the analysis of various current and past planning documents

Bottom-Up

Aims to empower residents via a community land trust
Aims to incorporate community orientated design
Aims to communicate through consultation

Holistic

Aims to treat the site as a whole in order to prevent fragmentation of neighbourhoods

Conservation

Aims to increase community attachment through protection and new usages of heritage buildings
Aims to boost the tourism industry and attract creative businesses through enrichment of character

Environmental Sustainability

Aims to increase green infrastructure to contribute to a healthy, clean working and lievable urban environment

Economic Resilience

Aims to encourage local and unique startups through mixed-use and live work enterprises
Aims to let the community influence and decide how public realm is used

Defining Community-Led Regeneration

It is about people:

identifying issues and opportunities in their local area
deciding what to do about them
making positive changes in their communities

How would it happen?

Community land trust and secure delivery of funding methods
Partnerships with a range of stakeholders, both private and public, to secure delivery
Inviting local people and businesses to help shape detailed plans for the area through consultation

What it draws on?

Clear communication through consultation
Community ownership of land and assets and control over them = Community asset transfer
Responses to challenges and priorities in areas where there are high levels of disadvantage

Who is the community?

As the site doesn’t have a specific population the communities that will benefit and participate in the regeneration are Custom house, Beckton, Canning Town, North Woolwich and Silvertown

Why is it needed?

To support families
To support employment
To strengthen locally-controlled, enterprising community organisations
To support meanwhile uses and community events
To support community space for programmes

How can the enterprise zone benefit it?

Circular economy
Generate income
Attract meanwhile uses and business