Planning permission for the new neighbourhood, which straddles the border between Havering and Barking and Dagenham, was first granted for the former factory site at the start of 2019.
Potential residents were promised a “vibrant new community”, as well as a new station on the c2c line, with the first people moving in at the end of 2020.
Around 1,158 homes have now been built, according to developer Countryside, with construction under way on a further 520 homes on the Barking and Dagenham side of the site.
This phase of works is set to be completed by the end of this year.
A medical centre, nursery and public square for Beam Park have already opened, with its first primary school set to welcome pupils from September.
At the end of 2023, Countryside also received permission to increase the number of homes it planned to build by 947 from an initial 3,000, with a commitment that half would be “affordable housing”.
However, despite the progress in building homes at Beam Park, the long-promised station is yet to gain approval from the government.
Only 2,735 of the proposed 3,947 new homes can be built before the station is delivered – which means large parts of the site could potentially lie undeveloped for several years.
All of the homes on the site will be between one- and four-bedrooms, with the last residents not expected to move in until 2035.
A new 2.5-hectare public park on the western edge of Beam Park close to Dagenham will also be created.
On this side of the site, a further 3,500 homes are being built by a different developer as part of a proposed neighbourhood called Dagenham Green.
