At Silvertown Quays they've so far managed about 100.

One site seen in the image is a plot directly beside West Silvertown DLR station. L&Q behind it. No movement in many years after approval.

Companies that are genuinely industrial in nature?

There's a substantial amount of unused and not built out strategic industrial land a short distance east in Thamesmead.

Change the classification of this land. Build mixed use. Many occupants of warehouses such as gyms could be located in new mixed-use sites.

Greenwich Leisure Limited (trading as better) office also nearby. Site has big car park. Lovely building so keep that but build next door on the tarmac

Red outline is recently approved towers above eastern end of station. No new entrance.

Adjacent site could offer that chance?

Not only close to Liz line but short walk to DLR, Southeastern and Thameslink plus town centre amenities.

Yet it's Strategic Industrial Land. Which means car storage

With scarce funding and in all likelihood just one capital project of note going ahead this or next decade, don't make it the N Thamesmead DLR FFS.

DLR to Dagenham, Greenwich Transit, Bakerloo all will help far, far more homes be built AND existing residents and business.

It was born out of Johnson scrapping better projects each side of the river.

Makes ever less sense now Barking housing totals have doubled and across Greenwich and Bexley housing totals going up and up.

Eg just today new Draft Plan sees 1000s more homes across Greenwich borough around GWT route

2/2 TfL under Khan obsessed with Thamesmead DLR and spaffing money there instead of a GWT for the 2030s assisting 50k+ new homes.

In east London Thamesmead DLR plan hampers previous DLR extension via Barking Riverside to Dagenham Dock with 23k planned homes (also scrapped by Johnson)

TfL planned the GWT in the 2000s until scrapped when Boris Johnson became Mayor.

Elements are coming back but in a piecemeal fashion.

See below. As once planned by TfL until Johnson scrapped it.

Bring it back

Or we can see a DLR to N Thamesmead that helps about 10k homes (Thamesmead BRT alone permits 5k plus in local strategy document) and doesn't extend to other growth areas south of the river.

AND the great thing is passing nearly 50k new homes allows a few quid to help build it.

If it went east to Erith + Belvedere make that 65k homes.

Want to reach east London? The GWT will whisk you quickly and frequently to Woolwich DLR, Liz lines at Abbey Wood and Woolwich and Jubilee at N Greenwich depending on start point.

From there a very quick jaunt. Custom House? 3 mins from Woolwich. Canning Town? A couple of minutes from N Greenwich.

Where to get funding? Oh I dunno, maybe the £1bn+ for DLR tunnel under the Thames to north Thamesmead for a single solitary stop miles from most existing Thamesmead residents.

Abbey Wood + Thamesmead = 10k+ new homes
Woolwich 5k
Charlton 8k
Greenwich peninsula 25k+

If that's not enough homes for a high quality new transport link between homes and Liz line, DLR, Southeastern rail, Thameslink and Jubilee line I dunno what is

And employment data out earlier this week is pretty awful.

Source: www.constructionenquirer.com/2025/11/12/c...