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Beckton Parks Masterplan

Co-designing a Sustainable Future for our Green Spaces.

Newham Council are working with residents and community stakeholders to create a future vision for the Beckton Parks Masterplan area.

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The area covers 2 council wards: Beckton and Custom House. It includes the largest amount of local authority managed green space in the borough and a variety of leisure and community facilities situated within Beckton District Park (North and South), New Beckton Park, Beckton Corridor, Newham City Farm Site and King George V Park:

The landscape offers enormous potential to create new and improved sports, leisure, wildlife and community led opportunities through improving existing spaces and facilities and re-purposing areas to better meet local needs.

We are planning a variety of ways for you to get involved in co-designing this exciting masterplan over the coming months. Engagement opportunities and events will be advertised throughout the project phases below.

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Phases

Phases overview
Register your interest
Shaping The Vision
Taking a Pause
Sharing Insights
Presenting The Vision
Summer Activities
The masterplanning team
Co-design workshops
Designs in Progress
Design Consultation Workshops
Online Design Consultation
Sharing The Masterplan
Masterplan Approval

Masterplan Approval

January 30, 2024 - January 30, 2025

On Tuesday 30 January 2024 Newham Council Cabinet approved the Beckton Parks Masterplan, one of the most ambitious urban green space projects in London.

As the individual schemes within the Beckton Park Masterplan are delivered it will create a gold standard green space that will benefit everyone living and working in Beckton and Custom House wards and in Newham as a whole.

The approved masterplan will be used to unlock external funding and inform the detail of future capital and/or revenue funding decisions that the Council makes over the coming years.

The scope of the masterplan is wide. To read the masterplan report in full please see the appendices listed within the cabinet agenda or visit www.newham.gov.uk/becktonparks Some highlights include:

A new Community Farm with Green Skills Hub: The Masterplan proposes that the former Newham City Farm site is redesigned to create a new community farm with green skills hub. The site will be reconfigured and an operator will be sought to take on management of the new offer.

Boat House Café, Ecological Lake and Lido: The Masterplan proposes significant enhancements to the lake in the North of the parks. This includes redeveloping the existing buildings to create a café, toilets and indoor play space.

Will Thorne Pavilion and Sports Hub: Will Thorne Pavilion will be refurbished to deliver improved facilities including community halls, accessible toilet facilities and a café. The building will serve as a central hub for the network of parks, attracting walkers, cyclists, dog walkers and families following the nature and play trails. Improvements will be made to the existing football pitches and the 5k Parkrun route will be formalised. New pathways will improve accessibility and planting schemes around facilities will present opportunities for improved biodiversity.

Improved safety, walking and cycling: Pathways will be improved and key routes will be illuminated and include CCTV. Traffic calming measures and improved pedestrian crossings will be introduced along Stansfeld Road designed to transform the road which currently divides the parks into a road that sits within the park.

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