Policy information sourced from City of London Local Plan

CS8: Aldgate

To regenerate the amenities and environment of the Aldgate area for businesses, residents, workers, visitors and students, promoting development and investment, by:

  1. Promoting the Aldgate area as an attractive office and residential location to assist in its regeneration.
  2. Identifying and meeting residents’ needs, particularly on the Middlesex and Mansell Street Estates, utilising a range of funding sources to:
    • maximise training, education and employment opportunities for residents;
    • maximise opportunities for delivering health, community and educational services and facilities for residents;
    • create additional publicly accessible open space and additional accessible play space for children;
    • encourage local retail facilities.
  3. Improving transport connections and pedestrian links, especially between the housing estates and Aldgate Station and Sir John Cass School and between Aldgate and Aldgate East stations:
    • replacing the Aldgate Gyratory (St. Botolph’s section) with a two way street system providing additional public open space;
    • improving Aldgate Bus Station to deliver improved access for pedestrians to and from community facilities, housing estates, open spaces and retail facilities;
    • improving signage for visitors from Liverpool Street to Tower Hill and from Aldgate to Cheapside.
  4. Enhancing the public realm of the Aldgate area, its streets and spaces and implementing improvement schemes at Middlesex Street and St. Botolph’s House. Identifying opportunities for urban greening schemes, congestion and pollution reduction measures, particularly in the vicinity of Sir John Cass School and Middlesex Street and Mansell Street Estates.

For more information please see the Local Plan