Beam Park
| Beam Park | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 Beam Park Station Square under construction | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ504821 |
| Location: | 51°31’26"N, -0°10’7"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Dagenham / Rainham |
| Postcode: | RM9, RM13 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Barking and Dagenham / Havering |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Dagenham and Rainham |
Beam Park is a new neighbourhood developed in south-western Essex, beside Rainham. It is named after the River Beam which runs through it; developed as part of the 'London Riverside' scheme. It covers an area of 72 acres. A new Beam Park railway station has been built. Much of the land was previously part of the Ford Dagenham site.
The area was part of the riverside marshes of the parishes of Dagenham and Hornchurch.
Much of the land used for Beam Park was part of the Ford Dagenham plant. From May 2012 the site, by then cleared of the vacant Ford buildings, was used as a secretive rehearsal site for the London 2012 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Two areas were marked out to the same scale as the stadium so two sections could be rehearsed at the same time, with a big tent erected as abase of operations for the production team and the hundreds of volunteer performers. [1]
Development proposals for the site and surrounding land were published in 2017.
In 2019 one of the local councils decided to compulsory purchase land around New Road for redevelopment from light industrial to 880 further homes.