Safeguarded wharves are those

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which have been given special status by the

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and the Port of London Authority (PLA) which ensures they are retained as working wharves and are protected from redevelopment into non-port use. Nineteen operational and six non-operational or road served wharves are viable or capable of being made viable for cargo-handling and should be safeguarded by direction of the

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. Nineteen of the proposed sites are not viable for cargo-handling.

List of safeguarded wharves

Upper Reaches

* Hurlingham Wharf * Swedish Wharf * Comley’s Wharf (RMC Fulham) * Western Riverside (waste transfer station) * Pier Wharf * Cremorne Wharf * Cringle Dock * Metro Greenham (RMC Battersea) * Middle Wharf (RMC Vauxhall)

Central London

{{See also, Pool of London * Walbrook Wharf,

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(waste transfer station)

London Docklands

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Shadwell Basin Shadwell Basin is a housing and leisure complex built around a disused dock in Wapping, London. The old dock was formerly part of the London Docks, a group of docks built by the London Dock Company at Shadwell and Wapping as part of the wider d ...

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Limehouse Basin Limehouse Basin is a body of water 2 miles east of London Bridge that is also a navigable link between the River Thames and two of London's canals. First dug in 1820 as the eastern terminus of the new Regent's Canal, its wet area was less than ...

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Surrey Commercial Docks The Surrey Commercial Docks were a large group of docks in Rotherhithe, South East London, located on the south bank (the Surrey side) of the River Thames. The docks operated in one form or another from 1696 to 1969. Most were subsequently fi ...

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West India Docks The West India Docks are a series of three docks, quaysides and warehouses built to import goods from and export goods and occasionally passengers to the British West Indies on the Isle of Dogs in London the first of which opened in 1802. Follow ...

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Millwall Dock Millwall Dock is a dock at Millwall, London, England, located south of Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs. History The scheme was developed speculatively by a partnership of John Kelk and John Aird & Co.'The Millwall Docks: The docks', in Su ...

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(which remains in use for boat exhibitioning) for the dock systems containing a great multitude of docks (some of which no longer exist) which were in commercial port operation until the 1970s/early 1980s. * Convoy's Wharf * Brewery Wharf * Tunnel Glucose * Victoria Deep Water Terminal * Northumberland Wharf * Orchard Wharf * Priors Wharf (Lower

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/ Bow Creek) * Mayer Parry Wharf (EMR Canning Town) (Lower Lea Valley/Bow Creek) * Thames Wharf * Peruvian Wharf * Manhattan Wharf * Sunshine Wharf * Angerstein Wharf * Murphy’s Wharf (major existing aggregates terminal) * Riverside Wharf * Thames Refinery/(

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Jetty) (Cairn Mills; sugar)

Barking Creek Barking Creek joins the River Roding to the River Thames. It is fully tidal up to the Barking Barrage (a weir), which impounds a minimum water level through Barking. In the 1850s, the creek was home to England's largest fishing fleet and a Vic ...

The following wharfs are located on the lower section of the

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. * Welbeck Wharf * Pinns Wharf * Kierbeck & Steel Wharves * Debden Wharf * Rippleway Wharf * Docklands Wharf * Victoria Stone Wharf * DePass Wharf

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* RMC Roadstone * Pinnacle Terminal * White Mountain Roadstone * Hunts Wharf (Van Dalen) * Hanson Aggregates *

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Terminal

Erith Reach

* Borax Wharf/ Manor Wharf * Phoenix Wharf, Frog Island * Tilda Rice * Mulberry Wharf * Pioneer Wharf * Albion Wharf * RMC Erith * Railway Wharf (RMC) * Mayer Parry Wharf (EMR Erith/Mayer Parry Recycling) * Standard Wharf

References

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