10,000 homes to be built on TfL stations, depots and goods yards
 

Mostly in zones 1 and 2.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3094536.html

10,000 homes to be built on TfL stations, depots and goods yards
 

On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 00:59:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Mostly in zones 1 and 2.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3094536.html

They complain that they're having to move too many people, then they build more houses.

10,000 homes to be built on TfL stations, depots and goods yards
 

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:38:55 -0700 (PDT), Offramp
wrote:

On Tuesday, 27 October 2015 00:59:28 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
Mostly in zones 1 and 2.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3094536.html

They complain that they're having to move too many people, then they build more houses.

I don't think TfL complains about rising demand for its services. It's
usually showing off about how demand and supply have risen.

A few weeks ago Venessa Feltz interviewed all the main hopefuls
seeking to be adopted by their party as the candidate for Mayor.
The interviews were spread over several weeks. All the candidates
said that housing was their number one priority and that they would
use public land held by TfL. Not one of them had anything more specific
to offer and certainly neither the Labour nor Tory candidate quantified
their housing ambition.

As I agree that housing is by far the biggest problem facing London,
I'd like to know how many homes could be built on TfL-owned land.

10,000 homes to be built on TfL stations, depots and goods yards
 

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

Mostly in zones 1 and 2.


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...build-10000-ho
mes-in-10-years-at-stations-and-good-yards-a3094536.html

I never cease to be amazed how many original LER stations have still not had
anything built above them despite the intentions over 100 years ago.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

10,000 homes to be built on Transport for London stations, depots and goods yards
 

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 00:59:26 +0000, Basil Jet
wrote:


Mostly in zones 1 and 2.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...-a3094536.html

Well if this means quality, spacious, well designed apartments, and
condominiums, it would be great. Especially of some of them are
progressed as part of TODs with employment, and retail, built into the
development.

Unfortunately these days good urban development, and what London does,
has about as much in common as gourmet cuisine and a plate of
scrambled eggs.

We can only hope for better.

10,000 homes to be built on Transport for London stations, depots and goods yards
 

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:12:54 -0500,
wrote:

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

Mostly in zones 1 and 2.


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...build-10000-ho
mes-in-10-years-at-stations-and-good-yards-a3094536.html

I never cease to be amazed how many original LER stations have still not had
anything built above them despite the intentions over 100 years ago.

Maida Vale Station always surprises me. One presumes it was built as
a plinth. It is in a fairly densely populated area. Yet it remains a
single story shell.

10,000 homes to be built on TfL stations, depots and goods yards
 

Robin9 wrote:

'Basil Jet[_4_ Wrote:
;151378']Mostly in zones 1 and 2.

http://tinyurl.com/pzcu3vz

A few weeks ago Venessa Feltz interviewed all the main hopefuls
seeking to be adopted by their party as the candidate for Mayor.
The interviews were spread over several weeks. All the candidates
said that housing was their number one priority and that they would
use public land held by TfL. Not one of them had anything more specific
to offer and certainly neither the Labour nor Tory candidate quantified
their housing ambition.

As I agree that housing is by far the biggest problem facing London,
I'd like to know how many homes could be built on TfL-owned land.

That's the only land directly under mayoral control, but there's plenty of
other brownfield land.

For example, lots of former petrol station sites are now blocks of flats,
and numerous office blocks have been converted to residential use. Other
government-owned land is also being released. And ingenious developers
manage to squeeze new homes into back gardens.

10,000 homes to be built on TfL stations, depots and goods yards
 

On 27/10/2015 21:53, Recliner wrote:

Robin9 wrote:
[...]
A few weeks ago Venessa Feltz interviewed all the main hopefuls
seeking to be adopted by their party as the candidate for Mayor.
The interviews were spread over several weeks. All the candidates
said that housing was their number one priority and that they would
use public land held by TfL. Not one of them had anything more specific
to offer and certainly neither the Labour nor Tory candidate quantified
their housing ambition.

As I agree that housing is by far the biggest problem facing London,
I'd like to know how many homes could be built on TfL-owned land.

That's the only land directly under mayoral control, but there's plenty of
other brownfield land.

Well, there's GLA Land and Property (inc. ex LDA land, and London HCA
land), plus MPS and LFEPA land.


For example, lots of former petrol station sites are now blocks of flats,
and numerous office blocks have been converted to residential use. Other
government-owned land is also being released. And ingenious developers
manage to squeeze new homes into back gardens.

10,000 homes to be built on Transport for London stations, depots and goods yards
 

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:40:01 +0000, e27002 aurora
wrote:

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:12:54 -0500,
wrote:

In article , (Basil Jet)
wrote:

Mostly in zones 1 and 2.


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londo...build-10000-ho
mes-in-10-years-at-stations-and-good-yards-a3094536.html

I never cease to be amazed how many original LER stations have still not had
anything built above them despite the intentions over 100 years ago.

Maida Vale Station always surprises me. One presumes it was built as
a plinth. It is in a fairly densely populated area. Yet it remains a
single story shell.

It's a fairly standard building based on an updated (by Stanley Heaps)
version of the general Leslie Green style like Kilburn Park to the
north and others elsewhere :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Green
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Heaps
Heaps had taken over from Green who died in 1908 before the Bakerloo
Line extension was opened. Heaps moved on to a different style with
the extension of the Northern Line to Edgware in the 1920s.