Romford Town Centre Masterplan
The Romford Town Centre Masterplan focuses on a holistic and multi-faceted town centre strategy that is cognisant of the layered elements of successful town centre progression.
Celebrating Romford’s Community and Heritage
The community itself is the most important part of Romford and a priority for this strategic vision. It will continue to accommodate the elderly, families, and young people alike, offering a liveable setting, with additional infrastructure to support new and existing communities.
Romford has a rich heritage and a strong identity, which must be protected, nurtured, and celebrated. Working with residents and stakeholders on this programme for over two years, we know that there is ambition and appetite to see improvement to the town and community, but that will not be at the expense of the uniqueness, history, and heritage of the historic market town.
Celebrated areas like the Market Place and its market and St Edward the Confessor Church, need to be recognised. Enhancing this character and reinforcing the heritage is a key ingredient for this masterplan and integrated into its low to mid-rise townscape.
Achieving a Holistic and Sustainable Vision
Several key components form the backbone of what the masterplan strives to achieve over the coming years. These include creating a positive setting for the future of Romford’s market, a key component of Romford’s identity and culture, encouraging the existing green spaces within the borough to flourish and expand into the town, broaden the offer of the town centre and its proximity to London to support its future and attract growth and investment along with new social infrastructure in the form of education, community, and healthcare facilities, enhance public transport and take advantage of what Crossrail brings and improving health and wellbeing for all by improving streets, spaces, and facilities for active travel, cycling and walking.
Sustainable new development will support the local economy and local businesses along with the local community with new social infrastructure, and community initiatives for energy; and will help to target being zero-carbon by 2030 through building design and construction, promoting public transport and active travel, and ensuring sustainably sourced energy powers a new Romford.
Client: London Borough of Havering
Location: London Borough of Havering