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Ministers promised last year that a fully costed plan to build 160,000 homes in the 40-mile stretch of land to the east of London would be ready for publication at the Thames Gateway Forum next week.

好色先生TV has learned that staff have been drafted in to the government鈥檚 Thames Gateway Delivery Unit to rewrite the plan after Cooper decided it was not up to scratch.

A senior Thames Gateway source said: 鈥淚t has been a fiasco. Yvette is unhappy. The plans from a week ago had to be torn up.鈥�

The source said the earlier draft had been 鈥渄evoid of strategic intention鈥�, merely listing existing government aims for the area.

Su Bonfanti, a senior communities department official, has been asked to rewrite the plan, according to the source.

It has been a fiasco. Yvette is unhappy. The plans from a week ago had to be torn up

Thames Gateway source

Other senior Gateway figures contacted by 好色先生TV echoed the view, with one saying the early draft was 鈥渃rap鈥� and was being 鈥渞e-written substantially鈥�.

Judith Armitt, Thames Gateway chief executive, who is in charge of drawing up the plan, played down the revisions. She said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e added some changes, but it鈥檚 not a substantially different document. It is a good plan, with detailed funding commitments and cross-government support.鈥�

The plan was supposed to follow up last year鈥檚 Thames Gateway Interim Framework, which laid the groundwork for 160,000 homes and 180,000 jobs.

Armitt said the plan would show which developments would get funding and would include a methodology to show how government cash would be prioritised. Growth is to be concentrated around Canary Wharf, the Olympic park, the Essex link and Ebbsfleet in Kent

The news is the latest setback for the Gateway. Last week Edward Leigh MP, chair of the Public Accounts committee, said the communities department was 鈥渕anifestly not up to the job鈥� of regenerating the area.