please empty your brain below
Knightsbridge should be step free next year and the major works at Old Street roundabout will be completing next year.

I assume nothing nothing has started on the Bank or Holborn upgrades yet.

David | 21.10.22 - 9:48 a.m. | #

The re-opening of Hammersmith Bridge? Supposedly 2023.

Eric | 21.10.22 - 9:57 a.m. | #

Not in London but the Lower Thames Crossing (aka extra Dartford tunnel but not at Dartford) still hasn't got permission although it has not been quite as long as Battersea Power Station saga. Latest delays are for environmental concerns which you might have thought were obvious. Due to submit new Development Consent Order this year.

Phil | 21.10.22 - 9:59 a.m. | #

I think 'Heart of Hale' (Tottenham Hale regen scheme from the folk that brought you Embassy Gardens & Coal Drop Yards) will be opening in 2024.

MarcB | 21.10.22 - 10:00 a.m. | #

The large redevelopment of Olympia is due for completion across 2023 and 2024. Work to clear the site is done and all the cranes are up to rebuild.

Jamie Awdry | 21.10.22 - 10:05 a.m. | #

There was always going to be a lull in the mid 2020s in terms of TfL new schemes but this has been turned from a gap to a full on pause by the uncertainty from the EU referendum and everything that has followed since.

The bigs projects which were in either concept or early development stage which have been paused or canned are:

- Crossrail 2
- Bakerloo Line Extension
- DLR extension to Thamesmead
- Galleons Crossing bridge
- Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf bridge
- south London metroisation
- Metropolitan line extension
- West Anglia 4 tracking
- inner ring road tunnel
- dudding hill line

David | 21.10.22 - 10:14 a.m. | #

Nine Elms Linear Park? What was a developers’ bauble is now being promoted as an upcoming benefit to the entire east Battersea community. The jury’s out, but it will at least be a lot more accessible than the stupid pool.

Philip Downer | 21.10.22 - 10:22 a.m. | #

Paddington Square should be finished in 2023 with its spanking new Bakerloo entrance and station façade.

And the Googleplex at King's Cross is due for completion in 2024, bringing Argent's inspired regeneration of King's Cross St Pancras to culmination well within its planned 20-year schedule.

Strabismus | 21.10.22 - 10:36 a.m. | #

Also, though nothing is confirmed, the pitch is definitely being rolled for the opening up of Buckingham Palace and its garden. I’d guess that there’ll be a more concrete announcement by the time of the coronation.

Philip Downer | 21.10.22 - 10:38 a.m. | #

I give you the multi billion pound scheme none of us will ever see...
Opening in a couple of years...
We'll all reap the benefits....
What am I thinking of...
The poo sewer...

Yes, the Thames Tideway tunnel!

dg writes: completes 2025

Dave | 21.10.22 - 11:09 a.m. | #

The new walkthrough DLR trains will begin arriving in 2024, as much of an improvement for travellers as station upgrades.

Jonno | 21.10.22 - 11:16 a.m. | #

Battersea Power Station stn west (south) entrance.

Kim | 21.10.22 - 11:17 a.m. | #

Thames Tideway Super sewer had been scheduled to open in 2024. But it looks like the pandemic has pushed that back by 1 year.

Uy Hoang | Homepage | 21.10.22 - 11:39 a.m. | #

I am still holding out in hope that construction will begin on New Bermondsey/Surrey Canal Road station.

Harry | 21.10.22 - 12:58 p.m. | #

When does the London Assembly move to Excel(ish) ?

dg writes: 7 months ago.

the nerw brent cross station and the scal of the new development is worth a look now, it's looking huge when i passed on thameslink the other day.

"London's OK.. but it'll be nice when it's finished"

Alistair Twin | 21.10.22 - 1:42 p.m. | #

Spoke to a DLR PSA who said that the new trains are being tested at the end of this year to start being introduced next year (if things according to plan).

As a Lewisham resident, apparently the Lewisham Gateway project is being finished in Autumn 2023, at least, that's what the hoardings say.

Alan Dallas | 21.10.22 - 6:36 p.m. | #

A vanguard of East Bank, UCL East, should be opening pretty soon. (Just don't mention the fact that it should have opened by the start of term.) V&A East's store will be 2024 and the actual museum is 2025.

Westfield Stratford was supposed to be getting an expansion too - with half a floor of car parking being turned into more mall. Did that get mothballed?

martin | 21.10.22 - 8:14 p.m. | #

I remember that because government Ministers wanted to open things, especially near Westminster, that the refurbished subways at Elephant and Castle were ‘opened’ on three separate occasions!

Brian | 22.10.22 - 12:23 a.m. | #

The Bethnal Green Museum/Museum of Childhood now to be known as Young V&A is due to reopen in the summer of 2023. My children are now too old to take to visit but I have really missed popping in there. I started regularly visiting it in about 1970 when I was seven so it is really quite an ingrained habit!

joan | 22.10.22 - 6:37 a.m. | #

The National Portrait Gallery is set to re-open in 2023, at least according to their website.

Jayne | 22.10.22 - 9:00 a.m. | #

I’m quite excited about the reopening of the Museum of London in its new Smithfield home in 2025.

Dan | 22.10.22 - 10:33 a.m. | #

Wood Wharf on the Isle of Dogs is perhaps one of the largest on going construction projects

kerspatula | 22.10.22 - 11:53 a.m. | #

New Museum of London is a very good shout I think (though a year too late for your list).

The Excel extension is meant to open in 2024, is that exciting enough?!

Sean | 22.10.22 - 5:56 p.m. | #

If you momentarily suspend disbelief at how disingenuous the name London Luton Airport is, there's the fairly-exciting opening of the DART there coming in early 2023, finally linking the airport to the railway station

Mat | 22.10.22 - 10:08 p.m. | #

I've added all the big ones to the post, thanks.

Less-big openings (and re-openings)...

2023: Old Street non-roundabout, step-free Knightsbridge, Paddington Square, Young V&A, Lewisham Gateway
2024: Heart of Hale, Olympia, Googleplex

diamond geezer | Homepage | 22.10.22 - 10:24 p.m. | #

"December should bring the opening of Brent Cross West station" may have been the official line when you wrote this post, but it proved to be optimistic.
It's now supposed to be "autumn 2023" (but remember the Modern Railways maxim not to believe any date quoted as a season).
Passing through the station today, there's still a lot of work to do on the platforms and the buildings. The customary huge glass box station building on the east side of the railway is still unglazed.

Retired Railwayman | 04.06.23 - 10:57 a.m. | #











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