e27002 aurora wrote on 23 Dec 2016 at 10:29 ...
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 14:59:49 +0000, wrote:

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:26:42 +0000, Recliner
wrote:

People who use the Chiltern, LU or LO lines through West Hampstead
have probably noticed a thicket of new buildings rising in the thin
triangular sliver of land between the LU and LO tracks.


Google is more up to date, and shows the construction underway:
https://goo.gl/maps/eV5UiSkgQ1A2

And here are my pictures from this morning:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/reclin...57674337762883

Reflecting the unmentioned adjacent railway lines, "the windows will
be triple gazed with specialist anti-vibration plates on the
foundation of the buildings. These are new and specialist building
techniques that will ensure minimal noise when the doors and windows
are closed. All flats will have comfort cooling which can be adjusted
above and below the ambient temperature".

From:
http://www.paramount-properties.co.u...ead-square-faq

This is what the developer has to say:
http://www.westhampsteadsquare.com/about

Note the absence of any mention of the railway lines that enclose the
narrow, triangular site. It sounds positively bucolic!
I suppose you have to do your own research after reading the line

"The design is inspired by the linear patterns of the rail lines at
West Hampstead stations ".

I suspect they have sold as fast as they can build them to people who
don't have the need to keep a car themselves nearby and the proximity
of the stations will be advantageous to those who like the public
transport network that London offers that means people don't have to.

Intrigued by this line

"But this typically English corner of London " , is this a veiled
admission than some parts of London have become so overwhelmed by
incomers that they no longer look part of an English City or even a
thinly disguised "Foreigners, we can't stop you but we would rather
you didn't consider moving here."


IMHO it would have been better to have moved the Jubilee Line
platforms to the west of West End Lane and added Chiltern platforms.
Then the new development could, and should, have incorporated the
entrance to a new interchange station.

London's county "mayor" has time to make threats to a foreign
president elect, but precious little to bother with local affairs of
value.

You can hardly blame Sadiq Khan (elected May 2016) for not blocking a
development that has been under way for more than two years.
--
Richard J.
(to email me, swap 'uk' and 'yon' in address)