Within original filing system as follows: TGATE3 / Thames Gateway Parklands Design Champion / 00.07 Related Correspondence.

Within original filing system as follows: TGATE 3 / Thames Gateway Parklands Design Champion / 03.00 Client Approved Consultants / 03.01 Arup / 03.02 Buro Happold / 03.03 Scott Wilson / 03.04 Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) / 03.05 Sustrans / 03.06 CMPI / 03.07 Ballymore / 03.08 Groundwork UK / 03.09 Pipers / 03.10 GTGKM / 03.11 DCMS / 03.12 Lee Mallett / 03.13 Sheils Flynn / 03.14 Thames Water / 03.15 Design for London / 03.16 Wordsearch / 03.17 E C Harris / 03.18 Glowfrog / 03.19 Quintaine. There is also a small amount of correspondence from Canon Kirk, along with correspondence about a Thames Gateway podcast and letter from Sir Terry Farrell to stakeholders in the Thames Gateway project, these were not included in the original filing system. File is in 2 parts.

Within original filing system as follows: TGATE3 / Thames Gateway Parklands Design Champion / 01.01 Pall Mall Consultants; / 01.05 Press Cuttings; / Thames Gateway Essex.

Within original filing system as follows: TGATE3 / Thames Gateway Parklands Design Champion / 01.00 Client / 01.07 Fees.

Within original filing system as follows: TGATE3 / Thames Gateway Parklands Design Champion / 01.00 Client / 01.01 DCLG (Department of Communities and Local Government). File in 2 parts.

Within original filing system as follows: TGATE2 / Thames Gateway, Sahara Group, North Fleet/Ebbsfleet / Day file. Project filing codes included within this file as correspondence is split between many different filing codes.

Copy of a presentation given as part of the Thames Gateway Seminars.

This is a government scheme which Sir Terry Farrell was extensively involved with between 2003-2010. Initial ideas came out of government plan to build 60,000 new suburban homes in the Thames Gateway region encompassing Essex and Kent. Numerous studies demonstrated up to 120,000 homes would be needed.

Over the course of 2003-2007 numerous studies were produced about the environmental, social and economic implications for suburban sprawl into the Thames Gateway region. Terry Farrell's masterplan for the area included a linking bridge between Kent and Essex (Shoeburyness in Essex to Isle of Grain in Kent), along with the creation of two or three artificial islands in the Thames with a mixture of homes, a beach, a park and a marina. Farrell thought higher density housing in London would alleviate the pressure to ‘build soulless and endless suburbia into Kent and Essex.’ Addiitonal elements includes the incorporation of the Lea Valley and Medway into an eco-park, acting as a carbon sink and reducing the carbon footprint of new housing by 60%.

Sir Terry's core vision was about high density housing in the more immediate London area with national parks in the wider regions of the Thames Gateway. This vision was at odds with partial schemes underway within the same region which focused on sprawling suburban homes, gardens and increased car usage. Sir Terry's ideas appeared to have gained traction around 2006 and in 2008 he was appointed as Design Champion for the London Gateway, producing a core vision linking the various regeneration schemes. The fullness of Sir Terry's vision was not realised despite there being a wide range of public workshops and events publicising his proposals.

Two items of correspondence and two reports from the Thames Estuary Steering group. The reports are titled, 'Thames Estuary: Needs, opportunities and constraints scoping review', and 'The Thames Estuary: An Integrated Approach.'