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Greenwich Peninsular

The Greenwich Peninsula is one of the Thames Gateway’s key development sites. Home to a large and exciting mixed-used urban development which covers 1.4 million sq.m (346 acres); it also is hosts the world famous O2 Arena and David Beckham’s Football Academy.

Greenwich Peninsula – Ravensbourne College

Ravensbourne College, a leading Higher Education college of design and communication, is relocating to the Greenwich Peninsula later this year.
The College will be moving into an iconic new building by Foreign Office Architects. The design of the building reflects the cutting edge philosophy of Ravensbourne and it will be a landmark building on Peninsula Square.

Enterprise and innovation will be at the heart of Ravensbourne, and the building will incorporate a central enterprise hub offering students, staff, graduates, alumni and businesses access to the college’s leading edge facilities and creativity. Maximising the use of virtual environments and digital technologies
will ensure that Ravensbourne’s enterprise and innovation activities can be sourced by interested parties anywhere in the world.

It has a community of approximately 1,400 students that follow either pre-degree (Further Education), undergraduate or postgraduate (Higher Education) programmes, and are drawn from the UK, Europe and around 10 percent from International (non-EU) destinations.

Why come to Greenwich Peninsula?

• Ideal location, outstanding transport infrastructure with quick and easy access to Central London, the South East and Continent.
• Year on year, increased growth in VAT-registered businesses
• 37,000 jobs to be created in Greenwich in the next 15 years
• New commercial floor space available - click here for more information
• 1,198 new homes built last year, with another 1,500 under construction
• 35% of new housing is affordable across the full range of property types and sizes