London Sustainable Industries Park ( LSIP ) is a 60 acre eco-industrial park in the Dagenham Dock area of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in London, England. Around half the plots are taken up by whole businesses and the remaining half have been sold to Segro to be divided up into spaces for smaller businesses, marketed as Segro Park Dagenham .
6-698: In 2007 the London Development Agency started developing the 60 acre site in Dagenham Dock. The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation announced plans for the site in August 2008. Closed Loop Recycling, a plastic recycling plant, were the first business to become operational in December 2008. In 2012 the site ownership transferred to GLA Land and Property when the London Development Agency
12-583: The British Council , and London College of Fashion , alongside London boroughs . Members of the Greater London Authority commissioned a 2008 report on these projects , followed by another in 2009 . The agency was closed on 31 March 2012 as a result of the coalition government 's spending review. Some of its functions were assumed by the Greater London Authority itself; these included support for Visit London , Think London and Study London, and
18-472: The administration of London's European Structural Funds programmes. The GLA was required by the Localism Act 2011 to take over LDA's assets and liabilities, which were placed into the ownership of a new subsidiary corporation – GLA Land and Property . The LDA was based at Palestra, 197 Blackfriars Road , Southwark , south London (across the street from Southwark tube station ). The LDA Olympic Land team
24-433: The following: research and development, sustainable industrial and business accommodation, recycling operations, energy efficiency, ‘green links’ between businesses, sustainable transportation, environmental technology and waste minimisation." Land north of Choats Road is known as LSIP North : Land south of Choats Road is known as LSIP South : London Development Agency The London Development Agency ( LDA )
30-704: Was from July 2000 until 2012 the regional development agency for the London region in England . A functional body of the Greater London Authority , its purpose was to drive sustainable economic growth within London. Projects were inherited from English Partnerships or carried out in collaboration with the Greater London Authority and other public sector organisations, including the Department for International Development ,
36-505: Was wound up. The Mayor of London announced improvements to roads, footpaths, cycle ways, utilities, drainage and landscaping at the site in 2012. TEG Biogas , an anaerobic digestion and composting facility, began operating in April 2014. The sustainable industries park is defined in the Barking and Dagenham local plan as "a defined industrial location in which new employment opportunities embrace
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