Barking Riverside Ltd

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Barking Riverside will deliver a sustainable community of 10,800m homes, 25,000 people built over 20 years on the largest brownfield site in London. Barking Riverside Ltd (BRL) is a private joint venture company between English Partnerships and Bellway Homes Ltd set up to deliver this strategic Thames Gateway project.

Design guidelines have been incorporated as a condition on the outline planning consent and these set out the principle design parameters, whilst providing the flexibility that is required for the scale and duration of the project. The planning consent and the section 106 agreement details the significant design criteria and also, as importantly, establishes the design process during the development stages.

Barking Riverside Ltd agreed a planning protocol with the three planning authorities which will streamline what could have been a very complex sub application process. This means in practice that the GLA’s Design for London acts on behalf of all three planning authorities in a collaborative way by joining BRL’s design teams, who are based on site, thereby being part of the design process delivering the subsequent sub framework masterplan applications for the next stages of the development.

In addition a Design Advisory Panel comprising design experts from both the public and private sectors including an expert from the off-site manufacturing sector, will be retained, to advise BRL on design elements throughout the lifetime of the project.

Barking Riverside Ltd will fund and construct the scheme infrastructure to enable serviced sites to be sold to house builders and developers who will delivery the site’s under lease structures that ensure the design guidelines are adhered to and deliver high quality family housing to very high sustainable standards.

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Proposed homes at Barking Riverside.