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Thames Estuary: stuck in the mud?
Interest has ebbed in the former ‘gateway’ to London – but infrastructure investment could get things flowing
There was a time when some of the nation’s top politicians would regularly make a beeline for the muddy banks of the Thames Estuary.
In the 1990s, Michael Heseltine seized upon late town planner Sir Peter Hall’s concept of a “linear city” along the north and south banks of the estuary, rebadging it as the “Thames Gateway”. His Labour successor as deputy prime minister, John Prescott, was equally enthusiastic about the estuary’s potential for 1 million new homes, many of which could be delivered on brownfield land.
But the current government’s latest announcement on what is now once again termed the “Thames Estuary” had a more sheepish tone.
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