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The Americans call it Transit Oriented Development.
Edwin | 18.07.21 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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The academic press often call it "transit-orientated development".
Oliver O'Brien | Homepage | 18.07.21 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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North Greenwich. It has the Dome and the Dangleway and the Millennium Village and little else.
Chris | 18.07.21 - 7:49 a.m. | #
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The non-academic press call such developments Focused Locations Above Transport Sites.
Running_Correspondent | 18.07.21 - 7:51 a.m. | #
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I lived just by Blackhorse Road Tube about 45 years ago (not really been back since) - stunned by the changes in the pic.
Although back when I was there, just after the Vic line opened, working at Oxford Circus mad for a very quick commute so the developer logic is sound.
Rob Gullen | 18.07.21 - 7:56 a.m. | #
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Pete Seeger had a name for it. "Little boxes". I can understand the economics, but is this what people actually want?
J. | 18.07.21 - 8:05 a.m. | #
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The same thing has just happened in Sutton where the strip of residential land (large semis) immediately north of, and parallel to the station has been clusterfied with a run of tower blocks, which have then been positioned incredibly close to each other.
And, this densification is set to continue with the neighbouring and very large B&Q site being sold for yet another high rise residential development.
Ken | 18.07.21 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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Finchley Road/West Hampstead. Already commenced with a row of midrise flats as part of redeveloped WH overground, continuing with former council offices/builders merchant near WH Thameslink, then a proposed demolition of the o2 shopping center (late 1980's), diy shed, car dealer, and another builder's merchant to be replaced with 2500 flats in 12-16 story blocks.
The tube stations won't cope. I think the developers are being timid and short termist by not putting a deck over the tube and train lines on each side of the site.
Also Brent Cross West (new station on Thameslink) and Cricklewood (retail park/brownfield redevelopment).
MilesT | 18.07.21 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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It’s a policy that has been implicitly in the London Plan for a while. The higher the PTAL (public transport accessibility level) the higher the density developers can build at. It has become even stronger in the latest London Plan with explicit policy on densification around stations.
I’m sure you’ve seen this but TfL have an excellent nap to tell you the PTAL of different areas here.
I’d add Ilford to your list, barking soon too. Woolwich (though a bit more established maybe).
Canary Wharf was in some ways the original one and an example that was used in many other countries of “transit-orientated developed”
David | 18.07.21 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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I could talk for hours on this subject, but if you want a really detailed analysis of the different ways London could accommodate it’s future growth check out appendix 1 of this Mayoral pdf (written pre-brexit when it was assumed London would just keep growing and growing!)
David | 18.07.21 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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I read recently of a protest group that have been formed to attempt to resist the building of "skyscrapers" on the current station car park at Cockfosters.
Frank F | 18.07.21 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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Tottenham Hale also, and Walthamstow Central is coming, which will mean a series of high rise rookeries down the Victoria Line.
Brian | 18.07.21 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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Colliers Wood’s lone tower - already the tallest building in Merton at 19 stories - could be joined by two more if planning permission is approved. The tallest would be 26 stories.
James | 18.07.21 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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See also the plans for Cockfosters car park here.
Steve | 18.07.21 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Kidbrooke, with TfL about to join in on the action.
Shieldsman | 18.07.21 - 10:13 a.m. | #
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I suspect Harrow(-on-the Hill) qualifies for the list as well.
Mike Roberts | 18.07.21 - 10:14 a.m. | #
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Malvina Reynolds wrote "Little boxes" about masses of small houses in suburbia so not really the same thing.
Hazel | 18.07.21 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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Might seem odd to suggest that Old Street fits this pattern given how central it is. I hadn’t been by there for some years til lockdown when it was on one of my regular cycling around empty streets routes. I was staggered at all the towers clustered around the old street end of City Road. Really changed from how I remembered it.
dg writes: not station-related.
Michael | 18.07.21 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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Tolworth is about to get a large development of tower blocks too.
mikeH | 18.07.21 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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Demoralising - North Acton could almost be imagined as semi-rural back in the day (the 1980s).
cau1khead | 18.07.21 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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Far better to build around public transport than low density car dependent suburban sprawl - long may it continue
kerspatula | 18.07.21 - 11:39 a.m. | #
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I read the first Canning Town residential monster as Hellsville Quarter - which is possibly nearer the mark!
Cornish Cockney | 18.07.21 - 11:45 a.m. | #
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Alan Bennett came up with, "Ghastly little f**k-hutches."
Chris | 18.07.21 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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Roughly 1000 flats going up in towers alongside Wandsworth Town station. They replace large B&Q & Homebase stores. Pre-pandemic I would have said the existing SWR rail service of 8 trains an hour wouldn't have been able to cope but now...
It's amazing how far you can see some of the Acton / Old Oak Common towers. It's as if some new city is appearing on the horizon.
ap | 18.07.21 - 12:23 p.m. | #
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The main problem is the horrendous cost of land in London which means building upwards is the only viable option. Of course houses with gardens could be built instead but, without heavy subsidy, only the very wealthy could afford to live in them. A London Inheritance touches on this in today's post Living in Stepney.
JohnC | 18.07.21 - 12:46 p.m. | #
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Slightly odd to hear it called explosive development. I moved into blackhorse road area 10 years ago and have watched this inch its way slowly into being in all that time. I think the masterplan for this was done in something like 2007.
Alistair Twiname | 18.07.21 - 1:12 p.m. | #
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The towers along the river across from Vauxhall seem to be of this mold, as does much what is happening between there and Battersea Power Station with the Northern Line extension (though that is different as the development is happening in conjunction with the new line being built rather than infilling near an existing tube station).
Greg | 18.07.21 - 2:11 p.m. | #
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West Ham is planning on going that way too. Currently lots of 4 storey flats but there are plans for a huge development in the triangle between the bus garage, the Jubilee/DLR tracks and the District/H&C/c2c tracks.
Also, to echo David, Canary Wharf has to be considered the first and best example.
Peewee | 18.07.21 - 2:13 p.m. | #
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Southall is starting to look like Vauxhall only thankfully more spaced out. I think about 6,000 homes have appeared out of basically nowhere.
Matt | 18.07.21 - 3:27 p.m. | #
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The Southall old gasworks development is mired in alleged poor health problems and concerns of residents living nearby, but ultimately it will be filled with Crossrail commuters no doubt.
Doug Robinson | 18.07.21 - 5:46 p.m. | #
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I grew up in one of the Victorian terraces of the Warner Estate near Blackhorse Road. As I now live in Canada I don't get back there very often. Recently did a virtual walkaround using Google and was absolutely stunned by the changes, concentrated in one quadrant that was once 100 percent industrial. My own former street still looks the same though!
James Webber | 18.07.21 - 6:57 p.m. | #
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The area around Canning Town station is unrecognisable from even a decade ago, let alone when the station was rebuilt for the Jubilee line extension. Still many of the kiosks in the station and bus station await their first tenants all these years later.
huxley | 18.07.21 - 8:26 p.m. | #
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The big brownfield gas works development in Southall and the tower blocks in North Acton are all a source of concern to many people in Ealing, but the council is under pressure, along with other London boroughs, to meet their residential development targets and sustain their council tax income, even if most of it is built for private rent or sale. Maybe with Brexit and the reduction in London's population, and the government's 'levelling up' agenda, the pace of new building in the capital will slacken off.
ActonMan | 19.07.21 - 1:09 a.m. | #
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The borough of Ealing is particularly hit by the 'Crossrail effect', as it contains five Crossrail stations and for years they've all been talked up as handy places to live near, with rapid trains to all parts. Even dodgy parts of Acton were boosted as being close to Acton Main Line Crossrail station, hitherto much neglected with few trains to anywhere. But with the delays to Crossrail and the present limited TfL stopping service at Acton, anyone who moved there on the promise will be somewhat disappointed.
ActonMan | 19.07.21 - 1:46 a.m. | #
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Alan Bennett can go shove his 'fk hutches', considering he's living in an enormous Primrose Hill mansion! Always rolled by eyes at his occasional attacks of snobbery.
I'm pro fk hutch, but I have to say the ones in Bromley-by-Bow are properly grim, nothing against the buildings but many of those flats will be facing directly onto the A12...
Joseph Clift | Homepage | 19.07.21 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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isn't this a reprise of Metroland?
dg writes: see last paragraph
Paul Draper | 19.07.21 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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Blackhorse Road may have been the least used station in terms of entrances/exits but pre-pandemic it was always difficult to board a Victoria bound train in morning rush hour due to them being fully loaded from Walthamstow Central anyway. At some times, it was quicker to head to Walthamstow Central and then return. And that was after the capacity increase. God knows what it will be like now with these developments, thankfully I have moved so have no need to find out.
E17Ian | 19.07.21 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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I suspect that the move towards working from home is here to stay. And that will make many of these projects uneconomic.
ScottishExile | 19.07.21 - 9:31 a.m. | #
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I think there are two ways of looking at the shift to work from home - I wonder whether many of these projects will actually do well as a result. If you don’t want to live in a flat share, you probably need to move to a one bed flat that’s still somewhat handy for trips into the west end or similar. Many of these projects fit the bill.
Either way they show no signs of stopping, especially in Z3/4.
Matt | 20.07.21 - 7:48 a.m. | #
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The development to the North-East of Vauxhall station dominates the skyline from South London and is now spreading towards Nine Elms & Battersea enabled by the two new stations there as well.
lockedintheattic | 20.07.21 - 8:01 a.m. | #
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