Editing Limehouse (section)

===Post-industrial regeneration===
[[File:Limehouse_Reach.jpg|thumb|Limehouse Reach seen from above Limehouse Marina, with Ropemakers' Fields in the foreground.]]
Limehouse Basin was amongst the first docks to close in the late 1960s. By 1981, Limehouse shared the docklands-wide physical, social and economic decline which led to the setting up of the [[London Docklands Development Corporation]]. In November 1982, the LDDC published its Limehouse Area Development Strategy.<ref name="LDDC Completion Booklet">{{cite web|url=http://www.lddc-history.org.uk/wapping/index.html#Intro |title=LDDC Completion Booklet – Wapping and Limehouse |website=Lddc-history.org.uk |access-date=14 December 2016}}</ref> This built on existing plans for Limehouse Basin, and offered a discussion framework for future development, housing refurbishment and environmental improvements across the whole of Limehouse. It was based on four major projects: Limehouse Basin, Free Trade Wharf, what was then known as the Light Rapid Transit Route (DLR) and the Docklands Northern Relief Road, a road corridor between The Highway and East India Dock across the north of the Isle of Dogs.

In the mid-1980s, developments on the nearby Isle of Dogs (particularly at Canary Wharf), proved to be the catalyst to delivering infrastructure improvements which benefitted Limehouse and some other areas of the London Docklands.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}

The sheer scale of the [[Canary Wharf]] proposals, and, in due course, the rapid implementation of the first phase of development, provided the impetus to the transport improvements which completely altered prospects for Limehouse as well as for the [[Isle of Dogs]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} The derelict Regent's Canal Dock was converted into Limehouse Marina.

The [[Troxy]] concert venue is located in Limehouse on the Commercial Road.