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• The London Thames Gateway is home to around 500,000 people and includes 10,000 hectares of land that stretches across 8 London Boroughs
  
• The steel pylons of the QEII Bridge are 84 metres high, the main span is 450 metres and the total length of the bridge is 2,872 metres
  
• 145,000 cubic metres of reinforced concrete were used in the QE II bridge substructure and the approach viaducts
  
• The Thames Gateway is an area of land stretching 40 miles (60 km) eastwards from East London on both sides of the River Thames and the Thames Estuary
  
• The area contains some 3,150 hectares of brownfield land
  
• 180,000 jobs to be created in the Thames Gateway region
  
• £446m earmarked in 2003 by the ODPM [now The Department for Communities and Local Government] to deliver regeneration initiatives across the Thames Gateway including £142.7m for North Kent
  
• The Department for Communities and Local Government is responsible for co-ordinating the project and development will be largely delivered by the three regional development agencies
  
• Thames Gateway Strategic Partnership (TGSP), with Yvette Cooper MP in the chair, is the high-level public sector body that is responsible for delivering growth and regeneration across the Gateway
  
• In 2009, Ebbsfleet will open for domestic passenger services provided by high-speed commuter trains. This service will be operated by Govia
  
• Train times from St Pancras to Ebbsfleet will be just 17 minutes in 2009
  
• Both the QEII bridge and parts of the Channel Tunnel were built using cement from Eastern Quarry, now one of the largest development sites in the Thames Gateway
  
• The idea in the Medway Towns is to create a cohesive 'city', spanning 11 km of the River Medway, with a rejuvenated Chatham town centre at its heart
  
• The Chatham Maritime site already includes a new campus for the Universities at Medway, made up of the University of Greenwich, the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University
  
• There can be as many as 300,000 birds present at any one time in the Kent Thames Gateway region - with many more passing through on migration
  
• In Chatham, there are plans to build a cable car system across the Medway, carrying 250,000 people a year and linking the universities, Dockyard, retail outlets and stations
  
• 20% of land in London Thames Gateway is non natural land use such as rail embankments and 45% is open space – just 2% is used for domestic buildings.