3,500 homes to be built next to Dagenham Dock railway station

A new housing estate is to be built on a former Dagenham car factory site that sits right next to the Dagenham Dock railway station on the C2C rail line.
Historically the site was primarily used as a press shop to produce vehicle panels for Ford and has a strong industrial history such as the 1968 Ford sewing machinists strike for women’s equal pay and the ‘Made in Dagenham’ movement.The site, being developed by Peabody, and called Dagenham Green, will see up to 3,502 new homes