On 27 May, 18:36, Paul Terry wrote:
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Mizter T writes

It is not known what impact a decision to drop Tottenham Court Road
station might have on the £250m upgrade of the tube station, currently
being undertaken by Vinci and Bam Nuttall.

It's very unlikely to result in significant savings, if any, given that
a lot of the work is already well under way
The only thing under way is demolition of existing buildings, sorting
out local utility diversions, and preliminary works for the tube
station upgrade. None of the big tunnelling or restructuring is yet
taking place. Its easy to scrap both (although it now leaves a big gap
where the Astoria used to be.

the entire sites of some ticket halls would have to be changed, leaving abandoned works and
creating more rounds of compulsory purchases with associated massive costs.

They haven't started construction work in any major way on any ticket
hall site except Canary Wharf (which is actually at Westferry).

The only abandoned works would be the plots they have now demolished
the buildings on
-Astoria
-Denmark Place (north side)
-Dean Street (north end, west side)
-Cardinal House (tower block near Farringdon)

Apart from Cardinal House, the loss of these buildings is a tragedy,
but they would have done that anyway. The loss of Cardinal House is a
positive benefit to the local environment.

All of these are key sites in central london, and developers will be
keen to snap them up if they can. They are so central that even
constructing buildings designed to last less than 5 years would be
profitable, if put to the right use.