Gateway investment ‘benefits entire country’
Investment in the Thames Gateway is essential for the economic success of the whole country, according to a cross-party manifesto for the area.
Drawn up by the Thames Gateway London Partnership, it calls for politicians to pledge their support for the area's continued redevelopment.
Return on capital; a prospectus for the future of the London Thames Gateway wants commitments to building the eastern end of Crossrail, and for new high-speed rail plans to include London’s Stratford station.
Lord Falconer, chair of the cross-party partnership, said: ‘The current redevelopment of the east London transport network provides an ideal platform for further growth.
'With high-speed and international rail, Crossrail and Olympic transport developments we can transform the way the east London and the Thames Gateway links to the rest of the UK, to the benefit of the entire country.’
The manifesto also calls for a new methodology for calculating the population data that determines local authority funding, and for funding for growth areas which have seen significant population increases.
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