Ravenside Retail Park, The Angel Edmonton 1998 (geograph 3659137)

Meridian Water is a £6bn, 20-year regeneration programme in

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, in the south-east of the

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. Led by the council, the project will build 10,000 homes next to the

Lee Valley Regional Park Lee Valley Regional Park is a long linear park, much of it green spaces, running through the northeast of Greater London, Essex and Hertfordshire from the River Thames to Ware, through areas such as Stratford, Clapton, Tottenham, Enfield, ...

. The development has its own

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which opened in June 2019, replacing

Angel Road The North Circular Road (officially the A406 and sometimes known as simply the North Circular) is a ring road around Central London in England. It runs from Chiswick in the west to Woolwich in the east via suburban North London, connectin ...

, connecting to Stratford and

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to the south, and

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and

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to the north.

Current site

The 210-acre site is located in the south of the

between

Edmonton Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city ancho ...

Tottenham Tottenham () is a town in North London, England, within the London Borough of Haringey. It is located in the ceremonial county of Greater London. Tottenham is centred north-northeast of Charing Cross, bordering Edmonton to the north, Waltham ...

and

Walthamstow Walthamstow ( or ) is a large town in East London, east London, England, within the Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county of Greater London and the Historic counties of England, ancient county of Essex. Situated northeast of Chari ...

. It is currently home to the Ravenside Retail park, an

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store, and a number of large blue warehouse structures, formerly owned by British Oxygen Company, or BOC Group, for the manufacture of liquified gas storage vessels. These buildings are currently being used for storage, industrial and distribution purposes. The council has acquired 87 acres (35 hectares) of land at Meridian Water since April 2014. It currently owns 64% of all developable land within the red line boundary of the site and has to date committed £157m to land acquisition.

Current development

The first phase of development called "Meridian One" will create the first 725 homes and retail space built at Willoughby Lane, near the new Meridian Water station, which opened in June 2019

This station is estimated to serve up to four million passengers each year at its peak. A planning application and development partner are also being progressed for the second phase called "Meridian Two" at Leeside Road, which will create 200 affordable homes. The developer intends these homes for ‘makers and creators’ that will use new workspace on the lower floors. The developer also says that this phase will create a new employment hub for around 900 new jobs at a 2–3-acre site along the North Circular.

External links

Official web site

References

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