![]() It's a confidence booster,' said Dagenham MP, Jon Cruddas. 'The feedback I'm getting from civil leaders is that they're pleased to have someone of Rogers's stature involved. Four urban design practices, three from the Netherlands, have been appointed to sketch out ideas on an 80-acre section of the area. But already £50 million has been spent decontaminating vast swathes of land. The region has the lowest land values in London but the highest levels of unemployment. It comes as the decline in east London plumbed new depths last week following the end of 70 years of car manufacturing at the Ford factory in Dagenham and the loss of 1,100 jobs. Rogers is effectively shaping the birth of two new mini-towns with a combined population of 60,000 people over an area covering 445 acres. Up to 20,000 homes in east London and Essex are to be built over the next 10 years with new schools, offices and factories. ![]() But Rogers is shaping the masterplan for what is Britain's biggest housing and urban regeneration project.
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