Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy
POLICY CE4: MIX AND BALANCE OF USES WITHIN DESIGNATED EMPLOYMENT AREAS
The Dagenham Dock employment area will be developed and promoted as a Sustainable Industries Park, with an increased emphasis on high technology manufacturing and processing industries (B2 and to a lesser extent B1b/c (research and development)) and a consequent control over the development of further warehouse and distribution uses. Proposals to establish recycling and reprocessing activities and other industries in the environmental business sector are particularly encouraged within the Dagenham Dock area.
Other employment areas should comprise an appropriate mix of employment uses, including B1 (Light Industry), B2 (General Industry) and in certain locations B8 (Storage and Distribution).
The most appropriate location for additional B8 uses is on designated employment land south of the A13 (except Dagenham Dock), where locational advantages associated with transport infrastructure, proximity to the River Thames and the reduced impact on residential areas are greatest.
Applications for large scale (1000 square metres or above) warehousing and/or transport uses will normally be refused in employment land north of the A13 and at Dagenham Dock.
The Wharves set out in the table below will be safeguarded for freight related purposes. The redevelopment of any safeguarded wharf will only be accepted if it is no longer and could never be made viable for cargo-handling, as set out in the London Plan. Wherever possible and appropriate, employment uses should seek to use these in order to utilise the River Thames for the transport of freight. Proposals which would frustrate or prevent the continuing or future use of a safeguarded wharf will not be permitted.
Safeguarded Wharves
- Barking and Dagenham is home to more safeguarded wharves that any other London Borough, and those wharves form a significant proportion of our employment land. The wharves safeguarded in Barking and Dagenham are:
| Location | Safeguarded Wharf |
|---|---|
| Barking Creek | • Welbeck Wharf • Pinns Wharf • Kierbeck Wharf • Debden Wharf • Rippleway Wharf • Docklands Wharf • Victoria Stone Wharf • DePass Wharf • Alexander Wharf |
| Dagenham Dock | • RMC Roadstone • Pinnacle Terminal • White Mountain Jetty • Essex Cargo Terminals (now known as Van Dalen (Hunts Wharf)) • Hanson Aggregates • Ford Motor Company |
- With the exception of Alexander Wharf, the wharves listed above are set out in the Mayor of London’s ‘Safeguarded Wharves on the River Thames’ report, and have been have been afforded statutory protection by Central Government. At the time the report was written Alexander Wharf was not in operational use and it was not thought that the river depth around the berth was sufficient to support the type of vessels needed to secure the site’s viability. However, since the report was published Alexander Wharf has been reopened for cargo handling, and therefore the Council will also safeguard it for freight related purposes.
For more information please see the Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy