What's happening in Bexley
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Bexley's location at the heart of the Thames Gateway, Europe's largest regeneration initiative, is helping to secure significant new investment in housing, jobs, community infrastructure and the environment. Bexley will play its part in making London a sustainable place, whilst retaining the character of its towns and neighborhoods and securing a strong, sustainable and cohesive community. Accessible new jobs and homes will be provided, along with infrastructure (including facilities and services). Bexley’s suburban identity will remain, including its natural environment and historical features. People will have the opportunity for a better quality of life, including improved health and wellbeing.
Priorities for regeneration and creating sustainable communities include:
- Promote sustainable forms of transport and seek to reduce the need to travel by ensuring that jobs and other facilities are easily accessible to homes, and work towards a more comprehensive high –quality and integrated transport system, which better meets the needs of residents, business and visitors to Bexley.
- creating a borough of contrast and choice of living styles, through preserving and enhancing the best areas of family housing and encouraging high quality, compact, mixed use, and higher density development in locations with good public transport;
- supporting the strengthening and growth of a diverse local economy by promoting the growth of industry clusters and emerging sectors, particularly knowledge-based industry, and encouraging the development of skills of local people to support this;
- Give high priority to conserving and enhancing Bexley’s heritage assets and the wider historic environment, all of which contribute to the boroughs distinctiveness, including its archaeology and geology.
- Create new built environments with the needs of people in mind, which are attractive, environmentally sustainable, accessible, safe, have their own distinctive identity but respect and enhance the historic and local character.
- protecting the borough’s open space resource as a valuable environmental and recreational asset; improve the quality of this resource where required and protect and enhance the biodiversity and ecology of the borough; and
- developing quality community infrastructure including cultural and sporting opportunities linked to the 2012 Olympic Games and their legacy www.bexley.gov.uk/beinspired.
Bexley benefits from an attractive environment with extensive open space including a long waterfront with access to the River Thames and River Cray, and a strong network of green links. Bexley also has a strong heritage offer in Danson House, Hall Place, Crossness Beam Engine House, Lesnes Abbey and Red House, many of which can be seen during Open House London weekend, and a range of quality sports clubs and arts colleges. Here is a link to an overview of local attractions in Bexley
The Regeneration of the former Town Hall and library site in Crayford is underway and will give a major boost to the town centre. The scheme will include around 180 new homes, a new library, modern community facility, restaurant, health centre and shops, delivered in two phases. It will also feature an attractive new town square, designed with landscaping and public art features to create a vibrant focal point and meeting place for the local community.
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