please empty your brain below
Does anybody listen anymore to developer’s hyperbole? Rather than hear “Oh look a development of luxurious riverside apartments” you will most likely come across “They’re building more bleeding great blocks of flats”.

In Wickford near to where I live they built a development of ’riverside’ apartments. If anyone had seen the river as it runs through Wickford will see that it’s little more than a concrete drain which serves as the retirement home for old shopping trollies.

Ray Burns | 02.06.21 - 9:09 a.m. | #

Marketing fluff aside, I think the masterplan design and construction phasing is rather successful.

Anon | 02.06.21 - 9:15 a.m. | #

'Please Stay Inside Your Car Until Your Appointment Tim'

Are you only allowed to make an appointment if your name is Tim and you arrive by car?

Nameless 14 | 02.06.21 - 9:31 a.m. | #

It has been a long time since I ventured down to that part of Barking & Dagenham.
flickr.com/photos/dtl/72157600169312728

I'll have to visit again and see if I can update any of the photos I took first time around.

@DTL | Homepage | 02.06.21 - 9:45 a.m. | #

I spy a few bits of infrastructure displaying the "intentional rust" brand of aesthetic. Not sure I'm convinced by that.

cau1khead | 02.06.21 - 9:46 a.m. | #

All over the UK, leaseholders are being charged tens of thousands of pounds each, to rectify historical building defects - including the removal of timber cladding. Yet here is a brand new station covered in the stuff.

Bankrupt leaseholder | 02.06.21 - 9:57 a.m. | #

Agreed cailkhead, that "weathered steel" viaduct looks terrible

Looking at the map, the whole area looks pretty isolated, even with the new rail link. Barking Creek (and the sewage works) block movement on one side, while to the north, the Renwick Road junction with the A13 is a major bottleneck which will only get worse.

Mikey C | 02.06.21 - 9:58 a.m. | #

Perhaps one positive is that a two platform Barking Riverside might make a frequency increase to the Goblin more likely.

For most residents, a trip to Barking would still be more convenient, rather than going to Barking Riverside, wait for the train, depart, change at Barking, then wait for another train.

The new station is just over 1km from the Tilbury line, a station at Rippleside would have done more to reduce the isolation of the area, and one change at West Ham to the Jubilee line would have been quite attractive commuter wise.

Still Anon | 02.06.21 - 10:27 a.m. | #

I walked Footpath 47 a couple of years ago after reading about it here, it had that lovely mixture of bleakness and edge-of-post-urban wilderness.

Thanks for the update, can't wait till I can get over to London again.

Ntw, the photo of the marketing suite looks just like one of those colourful 1960s postcards, with the vivid green, the modern square building, and the LT that could conceivably be a curvy-bodied municipal Fleetline in the distance :-)

Steve

Steve Conway | 02.06.21 - 10:56 a.m. | #

If we really must have more housing in Southeast England, then a properly planned development like this one may be the least bad way of providing it. Compared to putting families in ever higher blocks of flats.
I may be slightly mistaken about "properly planned" though.

Malcolm of Kent | 02.06.21 - 2:02 p.m. | #











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