Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Regeneration presented a report reviewing the planning policy for South Dagenham.

Combined Chequers Corner, the Ford Stamping Plant and Beam Park sites were one of East London’s largest regeneration opportunities, one of the Borough’s five growth zones and a major brownfield site with great potential for housing and commercial activity for 2,500 new homes and over 1,000 new jobs.

The history of these sites and their current status were explained. The preferred option was for a mixed use residential development on Beam Park and the Ford Stamping Plant with a new centre at Chequers Corner incorporating the existing stores at Merrielands Crescent, the Premier Inn hotel and Brewers Fayre restaurant, a potential Ford Heritage Centre and some of the new community facilities necessary to support the new housing.

The Cabinet Member for Education and Schools was reassured that the review of the Local Plan, which could take between 18 to 24 months, would not hold up progress. 

Cabinet resolved to endorse a residential-led mixed use scheme at South Dagenham incorporating Beam Park and the Ford Stamping Plant with a new District Centre focused at Chequers Corner, as detailed in the report.