Grays Town Deal Programme - Project 4: Grays Beach Park & Kilverts Field and Project 5: Riverfront Activities Centre
Project 4: Grays Beach Park & Kilverts Field - Destination Attraction
Aims to embrace the natural uses of the riverfront further by connecting existing open spaces (Grays Beach Riverside Park and Kilverts Field) and the riverfront.
Enhancement of the riverfront and connectivity with the river includes the provision of physical events space and infrastructure, small multi-use structures, space for community-led public arts projects, and the reconfiguration of the Lightship Café to provide an improved food and beverage offer enabling the provision of intergenerational activities all year round.
Project 5: Riverfront Activities Centre
The Riverside Activities Centre seeks to establish a strong sense of place with the riverfront connecting with Grays’s maritime identity, history, and culture.
Progress
- A pre-planning public engagement event was held between 5th - 28th August 2024 to get feedback from the local community on the latest proposal. There were 113 attendees to the drop-in sessions and over 2,000 visitors to the project page at the Council’s online engagement site ‘Your Place, Your Voice’ with 84% of the 92 feedback responses received being in favour of the scheme.
- Planning application was submitted 26th September 2024.
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