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Thurrock Local Transport Plan

Thurrock Council

Preparing a transport vision for a growing borough requires more than forecasting traffic. It demands a clear understanding of place, people and long-term opportunity.

Latcham was commissioned to develop the strategic transport vision and evidence base for Thurrock’s Local Plan and Local Transport Plan, creating a coordinated framework to support sustainable growth across one of the UK’s most complex development areas.

Selected pages from the Vision 2050 transport strategy, illustrating the strategic frameworks, place analysis and design thinking that shaped the final recommendations.

Thurrock faces exceptional planning complexity.

With major housing growth, extensive Green Belt, nationally significant infrastructure and an 18-mile River Thames frontage, the borough needed a transport strategy capable of connecting existing communities with future development without increasing congestion or compromising quality of place.

The challenge was to move beyond traditional transport planning and establish a long-term framework that aligned infrastructure investment with wider regeneration ambitions.

Challenge

Vision

Connecting Thurrock

Rather than beginning with transport capacity, the project began with a vision for place.

A transport strategy was developed around how people should experience Thurrock in the future — creating better connections between towns, neighbourhoods and employment while encouraging a shift towards public transport, walking and cycling.

Latcham worked alongside many other firms on the transport strategy and the vision was prepared in collaboration with Doyle Design

The result was a long-term spatial framework capable of guiding growth, investment and decision-making over future decades.

Project highlights

Vision

2050

A long-term strategic transport and place vision supporting future growth.

£10bn+

Infrastructure context

Integrated alongside the proposed Lower Thames Crossing and wider national investment.

Multi-agency collaboration

Working with Thurrock Council, National Highways, developers, transport operators and design-led workshops facilitated by the Princes Foundation.

A vision-led, place-based methodology underpinned the project.

Rather than allowing transport modelling alone to dictate outcomes, Latcham developed a Transport Vision Construct that brought together movement, development, infrastructure and place into a single strategic framework.