"1.252: The Autumn Statement and Spending Review supports local Growth Strategies to ensure that areas benefit as much as possible from HS2, enabling regeneration around stations and the improvement of connections to HS2 stations. This includes support for development around the new HS2 stations at Old Oak Common and Birmingham Curzon Street.
"1.271: ... Support includes ... bringing together the publicly-owned land around the Old Oak Common HS2 station into single control."
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"This would ensure that Buckinghamshire residents, who otherwise might be said to be amongst those most negatively affected by the Bill proposals, are able to benefit from the HS2 scheme.”
The HWSL is a route that we consider of great importance to the long-term economic prospects of the communities we represent."
0. Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Vision and Objectives
3. Land use strategy
4. Design strategy
5. Old Oak strategy
6. Park Royal strategy
7. Wormwood Scrubs strategy
8. Transport strategy
9. Environment strategy
10. Delivery strategy
Appendix 1 - Contextual Analysis
Can you spot:
the flying delivery drone?
the translucent bus stop screen?
the robot? (clue: it's hiding a bit!)
the weird bicycles?
the lack of segregated cycle paths?
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"While the Mayor's staff are preparing their new version of London's strategic planning document that will affect the lives of all Londoners, Just Space groups have seized the initiative and are putting forward ideas of what local people want to see included.
For too long, London’s planning system has failed to deliver for Londoners on issues such as air pollution and inequalities, has not developed a rounded economy, and has failed to tackle the affordable housing crisis. Local people are demanding a better future for London and all Londoners."
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"Prideaux and his wife live in a low-ceilinged farmhouse to which they moved so their son and his family could reside in their spacious old hall. Prideaux was smartly turned out in a blue checked shirt, red tank top and mustard cords, but drove me around his 1,400 acres in a middle-aged Subaru estate with tattered newspapers in the footwell. HS2 will pretty much divide his land down the middle. One of his two tenant farms will cease to be economically viable. He will lose farm buildings and a lodge.
" 'In an estate agent’s patter, it's "a fine rural location" and all that sort of garbage,' he said. The new line will pass shudderingly close to the hall, which is listed as Grade II* – the most protected category of building. 'It's an architectural mix-up of Elizabethan, Jacobean and William & Mary. Everybody’s had a go at it,' he said, which did not really do justice to the gracefully proportioned house. He then added: 'It's one of the three or four most important houses on the line between London and Birmingham'."
"I am delighted that we’re now up and running with the HS2 Independent Design Panel. Our aim is to mentor and inspire HS2 to design a transformational railway system which will exceed all of our expectations.Welcoming the Independent Design Panel’s formation, Transport Minister Robert Goodwill said:
The British creative and engineering industry is already delivering outstanding examples of design excellence around the world. HS2 is a huge opportunity to bring that brilliance home."
"This Independent Design Panel is crucial to ensure HS2 achieves its full potential for everyone. This includes making sure that passengers get the experience they want from HS2 and that it is sympathetic to the landscape through which it is built.HS2 Ltd chief executive, Simon Kirby said:
We want HS2 to be a world class railway which maximises the benefits for the country. Having such a highly-skilled group of experts on board will help make travelling on it easy and pleasurable and ensure we have impressive stations to act as a catalyst for significant regeneration and economic growth."
"I'm delighted the Independent Design Panel has now been formed. It’s a mark of HS2’s significance that it’s attracted such a wealth of talent to help us deliver this transformational piece of infrastructure for the nation. Forty five experts will form the independent design panel team, contributing to the project’s development in areas where their specialist experience and opinion is required.""Members from this group will form part of the regional site-specific design panels, for example at Birmingham Curzon Street station so that the whole project benefits from the skills and expertise now available.
"Plans are afoot to transform a swathe of industrial West London wasteland into a huge new urban area where 'people will aspire to live, work and play'.
"Exciting new details have emerged about the 30-year development scheme for Old Oak and Park Royal Common; conceived as the UK's largest regeneration project with around 1.35sq km (0.52sq miles) of available space.
"CLAD [Community of Leisure Architects & Designers -link] understands that theatre companies, museums and sports and leisure firms will be among those invited to develop a cultural and sporting hub in the area. This will create balance with cultural developments in east London; including the Olympicopolis scheme – which incorporates the Olympic Stadium, ArcelorMittal Orbit and London Aquatics Centre.
"The Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC), established in April, has been tasked by Mayor of London Boris Johnson with overseeing the planning of the project. The site will capitalise on the UK's development of the High Speed 2 and Crossrail transport network to become a thriving new district within the capital.
"In an exclusive interview with CLAD, OPDC’s head of planning policy, Tom Cardis, said:
"This is the most exciting development in London. We’ve been working with colleagues in the Greater London Authority to look at where the next key growth areas are for the expansion of London's cultural offerings. We're developing a cultural vision which will inform our broader Local Plan for the area and set out how OPDC can strengthen London's position as the cultural capital of the world."The development of Old Oak and Park Royal Common is centred around a new transport hub the size of Waterloo which will be lined with Crossrail and HS2. Around 250,000 people will use the station every day when it opens in 2026. From here it will take eight minutes to reach Heathrow Airport and 38 minutes to travel to Birmingham; Britain's second-largest city. A future tunnel link could also connect the station with Paris.
We think it makes sense to do that in Old Oak and Park Royal; the biggest development site in the country."
"Cardis predicts that the development has the capacity to generate 65,000 new jobs and 25,500 new homes. He said:
"It's an entirely new urban area we're creating. As a consequence, it can take big cultural uses, which could be focused along our new High Street and around the Grand Union Canal to the north of the site near Willesden Junction."Cardis also told CLAD that OPDC are working with a health consultant in their planning for the site and have applied for recognition of the development as a 'Healthy New Town' – a National Health Service initiative to celebrate urban areas that "support social cohesion, physical and mental wellbeing, walking cycling and sports in place of our current 'obesogenic' built environments".
We've thought a lot about how we can make the best use of this canal-side space in the future high-density development. People are very drawn to water and we want to make this area the best it can be as a high-quality leisure and cultural focus in the scheme. It has the potential to be a really nice breathing space in a fantastic environment, with restaurants, cafes and some pretty big cultural spaces."
"Smart technology will also be integrated in the wider development to 'future-proof' the area. Driverless cars, ticketless travel and smart parking are all elements being considered in the project's early planning stages.
"OPDC will be consulting on their Local Plan in the new year. It will be accompanied by its cultural vision for the area. CLAD understands approval is not expected to follow until 2017 at the earliest.
"The planning framework has been approved by Johnson, who says the scheme – which covers the London boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Brent and Ealing – could make a £7bn (US$10.5bn, €9.8bn) annual contribution to the UK economy."
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"London urgently needs new homes and commercial space to meet its ever-growing population and there can be no doubt that the regeneration of Old Oak represents a real opportunity to meet those needs. This strategy will mean we can plan for the future of this vast site as we work to create a new, thriving and sustainable part of the capital, where people will love to live, work, play and visit.""The planning framework aims to:
