Ebbsfleet Development Corporation
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| Formation | 2015 |
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| Headquarters | Ebbsfleet |
Chair | Simon Dudley |
Chief executive | Ian Piper |
| Website | ebbsfleetgardencity |
Ebbsfleet Development Corporation was established in 2015 to develop land, primarily for housing, in Ebbsfleet Valley, North Kent in England.
History
[edit | edit source]The corporation was established as part of an initiative by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in April 2015 during the Cameron–Clegg coalition.[1][2] As with the development corporations formed in the 1980s, board members are directly appointed by the minister and can override local authority planning controls to spend government money on infrastructure.[3][4]
Its flagship developments include a development known as Ebbsfleet Central which is to be the commercial centre of Ebbsfleet Garden City.[5] As with earlier garden cities, Ebbsfleet intends to deploy the design concepts developed by the Garden city movement, which involve affordable housing, plentiful green space and low-carbon transport.[6]
The corporation was given a target to persuade housebuilders to deliver 15,000 houses in the designated area.[7] As of March 2020, the corporation had invested £100 million on infrastructure to support the development, but housebuilders had only delivered 2,000 houses in the area.[8] In February 2024, the corporation reported that housebuilders had delivered 4,000 houses in the area,[9][10] and, in February 2025, it was reported that almost 5,000 houses had been completed.[11]
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