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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 .
Barking Riverside is a railway station in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, East London.The eastern terminus of the Suffragette line of the London Overground, the station serves the Barking Riverside regeneration area [2] [3] and was built as part of a £327m extension of the Gospel Oak to Barking line. [4]
The Thames View Estate, Barking Reach (a small housing estate) and Barking Riverside are south of the A13. The South Woodford to Barking Relief Road (part of the A406 North Circular Road) runs through the Roding Valley, and access to the town centre is by its junction with the A124, which until the late 1920s was the main route to and from London.
Barking Riverside station was opened in July 2022, with space left for the Castle Green station to be built in future. [7] [11] In November 2022, Barking and Dagenham Council noted that they were working with Transport for London to develop a business case for the new station. [12] [13] [14]
Set in the east of Greater London, the Barking constituency is one of the areas identified for London's planned expansion in housing. The Barking Riverside regeneration project aims to create new homes, jobs and services on the site of the former power station.
The developers of the site, Barking Riverside Limited, would provide £172 million towards the project, with the remainder coming from Transport for London. [106] Construction started in 2017 and was planned to be completed by 2021. [106] London Overground services started running to Barking Riverside on 18 July 2022.
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The potential for the southern sections of Barking and Dagenham and Havering adjacent to the Thames to be regenerated was identified in the Thames Gateway Planning Framework published in 1995. [1] The Barking/Havering Riverside area was identified as a zone of change that was named London Riverside.