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There's a chance my job might be relocated to Stockley Park, and while it was nice to spot a heron on one of the lakes on my recent visit there, it felt like a soulless and uninspiring place to have to schlep out to every day.
martin | 14.02.23 - 7:29 a.m. | #
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I suspect a not insignificant portion of the English population now have heard of Stockley Park since VAR was introduced to the Premier League. One of those buildings will be full of TV screens and other fancy measuring gubbins as someone works out if a strikers foot is 2mm offside.
andy c | 14.02.23 - 7:40 a.m. | #
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BT used to have a large encampment out there and provided a free bus for staff direct from the head office by St. Paul’s.
IIRC they didn’t check if you actually worked for them.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 14.02.23 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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According to Google's "People also ask" feature:
"What is Stockley Park famous for?
Stockley Park is known to support small mammals such as hedgehogs..."
Andrew | 14.02.23 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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I spent a couple of years working there for EDS. As Business Parks go, it was quite a pleasant place to work and I did enjoy the occaisonal lunchtime stroll. Unfortunately, because of its proximity to Heathrow Airport, sometimes the commute was fine and sometimes it was a nightmare, so I had to move on.
Steve | 14.02.23 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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I'm one of the many who've only walked through it because of the London LOOP. While it felt a bit curious diverting through a business park, I'm glad it did.
Andy C, I can't imagine the owners of Stockley Park enjoy the association with VAR LOL.
Mikey C | 14.02.23 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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Another one who has walked through via the London Loop, but knowing people who live in Yiewsley, I more often just pass by Stockley Park.
Cornish Cockney | 14.02.23 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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No matter how nice it is the commute is off putting, I feel sorry for any security guards doing 12 hour shifts out there.
Still Anon | 14.02.23 - 10:06 a.m. | #
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Have been to three of the buildings for meetings and it’s definitely a better than average business park, have often enjoyed a landscaped outside chat to debrief before going out separate ways.
TomH | 14.02.23 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Double note of pedantry:
- UB11 is a postcode district; the postcode area is UB
- Postcode districts include everything in a postcode before the space. Even outside the City, districts like N1C and WC1H are significantly smaller than UB11
dg writes: tweaked, thanks.
barbicanman | 14.02.23 - 10:12 a.m. | #
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Strange that this was listed, but Broadgate wasn’t.
Mike Jones | 14.02.23 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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My erstwhile employer had a unit at Stockley Park and an early '90s reorganisation meant my line manager was based there. I shiver involuntarily whenever SP is now mentioned in connection with VAR, as I recall the truly awful M25 morning commutes, the often interminable meetings, followed by another awful M25 commute home.
At the time the campus felt like a futuristic yet soulless place; it looks to have matured nicely.
Frank F | 14.02.23 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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Stockley Park was clearly the inspiration for the smaller Chiswick Park which first started to be developed in the early 2000s.
James Armitage | Homepage | 14.02.23 - 11:16 a.m. | #
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Not one of the London Loopers, I recently discovered Stockley Park by trialling a cheaper route to Heathrow, changing from Crossrail to the 350 at Hayes & Harlington. Not keen on repeating this for the purpose of getting to Heathrow, but driving through Stockley Park was a totally unexpected experience and the most pleasing part of the bus journey.
commonliner | 14.02.23 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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My former employer has a base here - listed in DGs roundup but now actually mostly empty. It was always treated as the third circle of hell by folks in my office, and a place which was awful to get to and worse to work in. Luckily I never made it there to find out if it was true.
(I was told the canteen was excellent though, as most of the staff were Indian and the local population provided some suitable chefs)
Kirk | 14.02.23 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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Apparently UB11 has the smallest population of any postcode district in the country (10 people)
The smallest sizewise is EC2N (0.09km²). UB11 is just under 1km² in area. N1C (0.58) and SW5 (0.77) are smaller
Ian | 14.02.23 - 2:22 p.m. | #
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The park may get a few more recreational visitors now that Stockley Country Park parkrun has started there. I'll be visiting next month.
Rob | 14.02.23 - 5:09 p.m. | #
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The only good thing about Stockley Park is Lucozade.
A G | 14.02.23 - 5:32 p.m. | #
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I'm another who had to make occasional work visits to Stockley Park (EDS...hi Steve...). It did all feel rather sanitised and weird. All that space and greenery, and the consequent windswept trek to the bus stop some way past the far reaches of the extensive car park, meant that most people drove there. Arriving by bike once I eventually found the cycle rack on its side in a far corner of the car park, there being apparently no demand for it.
Andrew S | 14.02.23 - 5:57 p.m. | #
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Had my first job here in 1990 at a company called Quotron. Then did my Human Geography Dissertation whilst at Newcastle Uni on the working environment at Stockley Park and how I thought this would undoubtedly be the future of the office. Clearly got that wrong as the main bonus point for Stockley Park is being only 10 minutes drive from Heathrow. Finally revisited in 2021 and thought the arena area was pretty shabby compared to the 90s, shame as I had fond memories of it being quite a buzzing place for food and drink after work back then
Russ D | 14.02.23 - 11:10 p.m. | #
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EC3M is in fact the smallest, beating EC2N by 0.11ha
Cosmo | 15.02.23 - 12:04 a.m. | #
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