Beam Park’s housing growth, which is meant to incorporate a brand new railway station, has been amended to just accept the fact that the railway station is being delayed.
Beam Park station – early idea picture
Beam Park is a multi-phase housing growth on former industrial land in Dagenham that’s now owned by the Better London Authority (GLA) and is being developed by Countryside Partnerships.
The unique settlement between the GLA and Countryside Partnerships required Beam Park station to be constructed early within the housing growth in order that the primary residents to maneuver into the property may commute to work.
The development of Section 1 was accomplished in 2023, and Section 2 is because of be accomplished later in 2024. A brand new hybrid planning consent was secured by Countryside in November 2023, bringing the general variety of properties from 3,000 to three,947 (with 50 % inexpensive housing).
Nonetheless, negotiations between the Division for Transport (DfT) and the GLA over the station’s operating prices are delaying railway station building. A mayoral resolution signed yesterday accepts that the delays in securing permission from the DfT to open the station signifies that it’s “prudent to delay the development of the Ticket Corridor”.
Whereas not surprising, it does put the stalled railway station, which has been caught in a “will they/gained’t they” limbo since 2021, formally on maintain till a remaining resolution about whether or not it will likely be constructed.
A number of housing developments are being deliberate round Beam Park, with the potential for upwards of 20,000 new properties, however the DfT had expressed considerations {that a} new railway station at Beam Park wouldn’t have sufficient commuters to be financially viable.
Beam Park web site plan
The GLA has beforehand provided to cowl the operating prices for as much as a decade to permit for decrease passenger numbers whereas the housing is being constructed. Because the housing developer and the GLA are offering the prices of constructing the station, and operating prices are coated for a decade, it could actually appear troublesome to completely perceive what’s holding up the choice to proceed with the undertaking.
The 2 sides have been locked in negotiations since 2021, and a remaining resolution is anticipated later this 12 months.
Assuming that the negotiations lead to a optimistic resolution later this 12 months and that early building timeframes haven’t considerably altered, it’s simply doable that Beam Park station may open in late 2026.
Candidly, that is in impact a free railway station, with operating prices coated nicely into the 2030s, so whichever political celebration is in energy subsequent week may log out on the station as a fast early win for the brand new authorities.
A proper resolution in favour of the station won’t simply be a reduction to the individuals who have already moved into the realm anticipating a brand new railway station on their doorstep, it additionally unlocks the planning situations to allow extra homes to be constructed close by.
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