Communities and Local Government
A selection of images representing communities.
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- Thames Gateway and the Olympics
- Thames Gateway: Area overview and development
- Thames Gateway: London
- London Borough of Bexley
- Case study: Managing the Marshes and the River Cray Strategy
Thames Gateway and the Olympics
Case study: Managing the Marshes and the River Cray Strategy
Managing the Marshes
The Managing the Marshes programme aims to restore three degraded and fragmented grazing marsh sites at Erith, Crayford and Dartford Marshes. This includes:
- protecting wildlife and biodiversit
- public access improvements
- providing information and signage
- management of water levels, and
- measures to reduce envirocrime.
River Cray Restoration Strategy
This programme aims to restore and enhance degraded areas of the Rivers Cray and Shuttle. Projects include:
- encouraging biodiversity
- improving access
- flood alleviation
- education
- measures to reduce envirocrime and
- increasing community participation.
Recent work has included:
- the removal of invasive species
- footpath improvements
- bank repairs
- graffiti clean ups
- tackling fly-tipping
- the recruitment of a river keeper and
- local volunteer river keepers.
