Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan DPD

POLICY BTC2: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SHOPPING FRONTAGES

The primary and secondary shopping areas, and the constituent frontages, are set out below and defined on the Inset Proposals Map:

Primary shopping frontages

  • East Street: 1-35, 41-67, 2a-42, 54-68 and 2 Ripple Road
  • Station Parade: 1-27, 2-18, 24-38
  • Vicarage Field: Ground Floor, First Floor
  • Ripple Road: 1-5
  • The Town Square Phase 2 frontage onto Ripple Road

Secondary shopping frontages

  • Station Parade: 29-41, 51-61, 50-74
  • Ripple Road: 13-23
  • London Road: 1-29

No restriction will be placed on changes of use to non-retail uses in the following frontages within and on the fringe of the town centre

  • Ripple Road: 25-55, 32-58, 62-82,107-119
  • Longbridge Road: 13-41, 14-62a, 69-99, 64-102
  • London Road: 14-34

The existing parade of shops at the Triangle, in Fanshawe Avenue and in the Gascoigne Estate (or any replacement shopping for it which is provided as part of creating a new neighbourhood) are defined as Neighbourhood Centres.

The retail status of the frontages to the new Market Square will be decided when more detail is known as to the form of the London Road/North Street redevelopment scheme (see BTCSSA1).

For more information please see the Barking Town Centre Area Action Plan DPD