Royal Albert Dock - Development Opportunity

Future uses could include light-industrial and manufacturing, logistics, workspace, education and life sciences, high-value growth sectors (such as green technology and data-driven/digital economy), sport, leisure and cultural production.

Sitting within the capital’s only enterprise zone, Royal Albert Dock offers the opportunity for a wide variety of both employment and residential uses. It is expected this could see the delivery of up to 2000 new homes, as well as various non-residential uses across high-value growth sectors (such as green technology and data-driven/digital economy), education, sport, leisure and cultural production as well as light-industrial, manufacturing, logistics, and workspaces.

Royal Albert Dock is a key part of the regeneration of the Royal Docks set within a significant area of change and growth. Approximately £5bn of investment is planned for the wider area over the next 20 years providing 36,000 new homes and creating 55,000 new jobs.

The Sites strategic location is enabled through high quality transport infrastructure (DLR and Elizabeth Line) and a local network of business and educational institutions. New investment will simultaneously support thriving economic activity with an international reach - strengthening London’s reputation as a global city - whilst also delivering sustainable development grounded upon local community benefit, environmental responsibility and social value.

A first phase of development was completed in April 2019 (c. 47,000 sqm) under a previous Development Agreement. Originally focussed on office uses these buildings are now subject to a change of use application being marketed as ‘RAD London’. This application, by DPK, focuses on student accommodation as part of a wider educational campus (set to open in late 2026, subject to planning permission), including the potential for additional flexible office, research, development, health and educational uses.

For more information on the first phase of development visit: https://rad.london/

Sadiq Khan – Mayor of London
Few development sites offer this level of scale and opportunity, especially within one of London’s fastest changing regeneration areas. Royal Albert Dock has the potential to be truly transformational for the Royal Docks and London. It will support a new hub of entrepreneurship and innovation, playing a major role in the capital’s continuing economic success and growth Eastwards. Future investment will deliver a vibrant and sustainable new place, creating new affordable homes and delivering against my Good Growth agenda. Working with the London Borough of Newham I am determined to bring the Site back into use. This will support a more prosperous city, creating a fairer, greener, more inclusive economy that works for all Londoners and businesses.

Rokhsana Fiaz OBE – Mayor of Newham
Newham’s Royal Docks has been reimagined to play a pivotal role in London’s growth as a dynamic global city. Through the diversity of our people, who have connections across the world, we are a hotbed of investment, innovation and opportunity. That’s why our plans for Royal Albert Dock are bold and exciting. As well as new homes people can afford, we’ll be opening up a vast array of jobs and opportunities reflecting the way we now need to live and work to secure a sustainable, inclusive and fairer Newham for present and future generations. Working with the Mayor of London and the GLA, we are setting a new standard in our vision for the Royal Docks as we turbocharge our ambitious plans with purpose and with local people.

To read more about the ambitious regeneration of the Royal Docks and the Mayor of London's vision for the area click here