Plans are being shown off to encourage more boats to use the Royal Docks for long-term mooring, as well as an intention to create a new floating park in the dock.
The plans would affect an area known as Royal Victoria Dock West, which is the end closest to London City Hall and the Cable Car.
If carried out, the two biggest changes will be a range of floating walkways reaching into the dock, lined with water plants. There already is one small floating park in the docks, so this will likely be a large expansion of the existing scheme.
The other change will be the introduction of walkways on the south side of the dock for long-term residential boat moorings.
They also plan a wellness pontoon that looks generic enough that, if the wellness centre fails, it can be quickly turned into a cafe.
There’s going to be some public exhibitions about the plans:
The team will have a table in the foyer of Britannia Village Hall on 25 and 26 Feb, 2 and 4 March 3-6 pm, where people can review some large project information boards and talk about the Vision.
A weekend of drop-in conversations about the Vision on the historic Thames Sailing Barge Will, a 100-year-old Thames sailing barge – the largest ever built. The boat will be moored in Royal Victoria Dock West, 7-8 March (open 10 am-3 pm). There will be project information boards, lots of post-it notes and space for conversations about the past and future of the docks.
It’ll be some time before anything happens, with construction, if approved, not expected to start until 2028-29.
Details are here.
