Clearwater Estates is putting £100m into a giant leisure, retail and hotel complex, including London’s first cruise liner terminal at Deptford Creek at Greenwich in south London, writes Catherine Wheatley of EGi.
Clearwater’s largest ever investment is the first major private-sector project to follow government backing for the Millennium Exhibition at the nearby Greenwich Peninsular site, SE10.
Clearwater is expected to sign a joint-venture agreement with Greenwich Reach Developments to build out the 3.2ha (9 acre) site on the south bank of the Thames next to the Cutty Sark.
The scheme’s centrepiece is a new dock which will allow cruise ships to tie up in central London for the first time. The development will include a shopping centre, restaurants, a five-star hotel, a multiplex cinema, a casino and around 100 homes.
The site will be linked to Greenwich town centre via Cutty Sark Gardens by a riverside boardwalk. It will also be served by a new Jubilee Line station and the Docklands Light Railway extension to Lewisham.
