<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1645449387/projects/royaldocksandriversidehome/f516b074-54fe-4877-ade8-ee4788b1d79a.jpg" />Back in 2020, you helped us shape the Vision and Principles for the Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside Opportunity Area Planning Framework (OAPF). Through pop-up events, community sessions, one-to-one meetings, youth sessions, and our online website, we had the opportunity to hear your thoughts and gather feedback, ensuring that the Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside becomes: a lively, healthy place, a connected resilient place, an enabled innovative place, and an empowered diverse place. Since we last talked to you, we have been working hard to put together the strategic framework to guide the future growth in the Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside. Incorporating your feedback on the Vision and Principles, we have prepared a draft OAPF which is now open to consultation from 7 February to 21 March 2022 . The OAPF will help guide where new homes and jobs are provided up to 2041. This includes the infrastructure to support them, for example, public transport, local connections, utilities, and community facilities. The OAPF includes high–level strategies and recommendations that help shape the future of the area. We also came up with some ideas on what this OAPF could mean for seven places and a set of new and improved local connections. Given that strategic planning affects all of our lives, It is vital that local people sit at the heart of these plans, to ensure future development meets community needs while celebrating the area&#39;s heritage. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for participating in the previous round of engagement and invite you to give us your thoughts on the consultation draft. Read the OAPF and comment: <a href="https://royaldocksandriversideoapf.commonplace.is/">https://royaldocksandriversideoapf.commonplace.is/</a> Join us for an online event: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/royal-docks-and-beckton-riverside-oapf-31275310335">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/royal-docks-and-beckton-riverside-oapf-31275310335</a>

Draft framework now on consultation until 21 March 2022 - Let us know your thoughts! 

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For now, this consultation site is closed for comments. Our work is always evolving and we welcome any comments along the way, you are welcome to contact the team with any feedback, suggestions or questions at any time by email - <a href="http://royaldocksoapf@london.gov.uk.">royaldocksoapf@london.gov.uk </a> Although we were sadly unable to meet you in person for this round of engagement due to Covid-19, we had a great response to the leaflets we distributed to local households and businesses, and here, on our online platform. We also organised four online events that were open for everyone to attend. Representatives from the Mayor of London’s teams, Newham Council and Transport for London talked to local people about current local concerns and how these could pose opportunities for the future development of the area. Through these conversations and responses, we were able to check back in with you after our first round of engagement in 2019, to ensure that our work was continuing to reflect local priorities. We would like to pass our thanks on to everyone who has contributed so far to shaping this future plan for the Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside area. We will be reporting back in the next few months on our findings from this stage of the engagement and timescales for the next stage. The draft Opportunity Area Planning Framework for the Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside will be issued for consultation in mid-2021. <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/commonplace-digital-limited/image/upload/v1610386592/projects/royaldocksandriversidehome/f4fcb33d-1c90-4de9-8815-ba74ee8ed82e.jpg" />

Our engagement site is closed for now - but you can still send us comments by email

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