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Cruise terminal to give Greenwich financial boost
By Rob Virtue on May 1, 2012 5:59 PM | Tagged with: Cruise liner terminal, Greenwich Council, The O2


Planning is well underway for turning Greenwich Peninsula into a cruise liner terminal.
Called Enderby Wharf, the major regeneration scheme is due to be finished in 2014.

And one expert in the cruise liner industry said Greenwich was set for a major financial boost as the first big ship terminal in the capital.

Capt Michael McCarthy, the incoming chairman of the Cruise Executive, which sponsored an international cruise conference in Greenwich last week, said: "The home port for the ships arriving in Greenwich could be Germany, the US or even liners leaving from Southampton for a round Britain cruise.

"All the four, five, six and seven star companies with passengers with high yield spend will be coming. There are people looking for marquee regions to come to."

He said surveys showed the average spend of the passengers is around £180 in the town they land at, and 40 per cent of passengers, if they have a good experience, would come back on a land based holiday.

At the Greenwich Council-organised press event to see the derelict site, developer West Properties' planning director James Blakey said construction would begin at the end of this year, with completion due to take between 12 and 18 months.

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Crossrail plans to transform Tottenham Court Road and West End approved
Friday 20th April 2012

By Ankeeta Munsi


First new West End theatre in over a decade at former Astoria site gets go-head

New 500,000 sq ft high-quality retail, office and residential spaces will boost regeneration of Oxford Street

Westminster City Council has given its approval for the regeneration of Tottenham Court Road and the east end of Oxford Street, including the former Astoria site.

The development plans, submitted in conjunction with Derwent London, are for two above ground developments located over each ticket hall of the integrated Tottenham Court Road station that will serve both Crossrail and London Underground passengers.

The 500,000 sq ft of premium retail, office and residential accommodation will cover four blocks, boosting the economy in the eastern end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. It will also deliver a significant contribution towards the Crossrail funding package.

A new theatre to replace the former Astoria Theatre has also been approved. Derwent London has entered into an agreement with Nimax who will operate the new 350 seat theatre.

London Underground and Crossrail have also gained approval for plans to renew and upgrade the public spaces around the eastern ticket hall and St Giles area. A new open pedestrian space linking Soho Square and Charing Cross Road will create new views of the Square and of St. Patrick’s Church.

Ian Lindsay, Crossrail Land and Property Director said: “The £1bn redevelopment of Tottenham Court Road station provides a once in a generation opportunity to revitalise the eastern end of Oxford Street. The plans including high-quality offices and shops will enhance the Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road area as a thriving cultural and retail destination.”

The proposals link into wider efforts by London Underground, Crossrail, Transport for London (TfL), Camden Council, Westminster City Council and Design for London to improve the area around St Giles Circus. A new public piazza around Centrepoint will also be created providing a distinctive new landmark for the West End.

The arrival of Crossrail will make Tottenham Court Road a major West End transport hub. 150,000 passengers use Tottenham Court Road station every day. That number is expected to rise to more than 200,000 when Crossrail services commence in 2018. Crossrail will link the West End to Canary Wharf in 12 minutes, Stratford in 13 minutes and Heathrow in less than 30 minutes.

In total, £1bn is being spent to build the new Crossrail station and upgrade the capacity of the Tube station.

The private sector-funded over-site developments will be built once work to construct Tottenham Court Road station is complete in 2017. Crossrail will commence services in 2018.

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1 MERCHANT SQUARE "THE CUCUMBER" (PADDINGTON)


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Billionaire brothers present 140m tower to rival the Gherkin at Merchant Square

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Sunday Times Rich Listers Simon and David Reuben have submitted plans for a 41 storey residential tower at their prosperous Paddington Basin site in London's West End. The 140m skyscraper will also incorporate a 90 room boutique hotel and a public sky bar with panoramic views across the capital's increasingly busy skyline.

Should planning be approved, the affectionately dubbed 'Cucumber' building will snatch the title of 17th tallest tower in London, only 131ft shorter than the Gherkin. Plans currently offer 222 flats, bringing the total of apartments in the Merchant Square development to 542.

The Reuben brothers' company European Land and Property altered an earlier planning submission to incorporate the glazed tower. The Merchant Square masterplans for the Paddington Basin site combine elements of residential, office and retail accommodation on the edge of the Thames, within walking distance on the famed cultural hotspots of the capital's West End.

Already stationed at the Paddington Basin development are the headquarters of Marks & Spencer and Vodaphone, with further development projects planned by Development Securities and Derwent London. It is hoped that the 'Cucumber' tower will be completed by 2016 should planning permission be granted.

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DOLLAR BAY (109 m.) CANARY WHARF

Empezado por Newcastle Guy

Planning application has been submitted for a 31 story residential building.

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Architect: Ian Simpson
Height: 114.5m AOD, 109m AGL

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Greenwich cruise liner dock to be port for West End visitors

Royal destination: computer images of the cruise liner terminal in Greenwich. Ships carrying up to 3,000 would be able to visit from as far afield as New York



26 April 2012

Greenwich is set to join New York, Hawaii and the Caribbean as a cruise ship destination after plans for a huge dock were approved.

It will be located between the O2 arena and the Cutty Sark at Enderby Wharf in the royal borough, with a fast clipper shuttling passengers to the West End in 20 minutes.

Plans for the cruise liner dock have been given the go-ahead by Boris Johnson and could be completed in two years.

This would allow cruise ships up to 240 metres long — almost as big as Titanic — to dock west of the Thames barrier for the first time, rather than docking at Tilbury, 22 miles from Tower Bridge.

With each ship carrying up to 3,000 passengers, this would deliver a huge boost to the royal borough’s economy. Liners would begin or end their cruises in Greenwich, coming from as far afield as New York.

Backers insisted there would be no risk to other Thames vessels as each ship would have a locally trained pilot on board to navigate the estuary.

Captain Michael McCarthy, incoming chairman of Cruise Europe, which represents operators, said there was no need to worry about a disaster similar to that of Costa Concordia, which capsized off Italy in January, killing 32 people.

He said: “With Concordia, there wasn’t a pilot on board. With Titanic, there wasn’t a pilot on board. If you look at the cruise industry, it’s one of the safest holidays you can take.”

A 251-bedroom hotel and 770 homes will be built alongside the dock, which will stick out about 75 metres into the Thames. About 100 ships a year are expected to use the dock. Developer West Properties refused to reveal the cost of the project, which is backed by Morgan Stanley.

Greenwich council leader Chris Roberts said: “When somebody said ‘We can put a cruise liner dock here’, we didn’t have to think. It was a no-brainer.”

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Ohh el cucumber me ha encantado . Me imagino esto en la reordenación ferroviaria de Santander justo con sus 140m...

Si, recuerda a otras dos torres mas pequenyas situadas en Old Street

Propuesta de tunel en Hammersmith

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Hammersmith tunnel 'solution to crumbling flyover'

Strengthening work taking place Engineers will need to continue strengthening work in 2013, said TfL


A west London council has said building a tunnel is the long-term solution to replace a "crumbling" flyover.

The Hammersmith Flyover has been under repair works since December and is scheduled to reopen fully on 30 May.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council said: "We must continue to push for an alternative solution, and that is a tunnel."

Transport for London (TfL) said the flyover "would be able to survive for several further decades".

A council spokesman said: "TfL must realise that we cannot simply accept patch-jobs to prolong the life of this monstrous outdated and crumbling structure."

TfL Surface Transport spokesman Garrett Emmerson said: "Our engineers, contractors and traffic control operators continue to work flat out to deliver a permanent fix to the Hammersmith Flyover well ahead of the 2012 Games.

"The structure would be able to survive for several further decades.

"However the Mayor has also asked us to consider long term options for the area and that work will consider a range of possible solutions to the area's future needs."

The strengthening works, which began in January, have seen about 200m (650ft) of the central reservation along the flyover removed, a new structural slab and concrete barriers installed, as well as tailored anchorages for the new cables installed within the structure.

TfL has been carrying out two weeks of overnight closures to flyover since 15 May to carry out the final parts of this work.

It said it would return to the structure in 2013 for more strengthening work which will be carried out, where possible, with no weight or lane restrictions and minimal closures to the flyover.

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Sobre el teleferico, recientemente inaugurado


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Urban cable car takes flight over London's Thames

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LONDON (AP) — Think Swiss Alps rather than San Francisco.

A new cable car will soar over the Thames River starting next week, promising to become part of the London landscape ahead of the Summer Olympics.

Transport for London has set June 28 as the opening date for Britain's first urban cable car — well in time for the massive crowds expected for the Olympics. It is called the Emirates Air Line, after the air carrier invested 36 million pounds ($56 million) as part of a 10-year sponsorship deal.

The cable car will make the half-mile (one kilometer) crossing between Greenwich and the Royal Docks, allowing visitors to take in the views of Olympic Park, the Canary Wharf financial center and the Thames Barrier, massive structures in the river that keep London from flooding.

"The Emirates Air Line is part of my plan to develop a package of new river crossings in east London and transform the surrounding area into a vibrant new metropolitan quarter that will attract new jobs, homes and enterprise," London Mayor Boris Johnson said in a statement.

Each of the 34 cars holds 10 people and looks like the gondolas that ferry skiers up the mountains in the Swiss Alps. Travelers can go one way or round-trip, with a one-way ticket costing 3.20 pounds ($5).

Aside from being just plain fun, the cable car should help ease public transport ahead of the London games, which start July 27 and end Aug. 12.

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Nuevo Westfield en Croydon, seria el 3ero del Gran Londres


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Westfield’s Croydon facelift - £1bn bid to open south London mega-mall

Shopping giant reveals a £1bn bid for its third London mall


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29 June 2012

Shopping centre giant Westfield today revealed a £1 billion bid to open its latest mega-mall in Croydon.

The company, which already has two major centres in London — at Shepherd’s Bush in the west and Stratford in the east — plans to open its third to dominate the south.

The development will be based around the town’s Whitgift Centre, with the company’s bosses claiming it will regenerate an area devastated by last summer’s riots.

They say the scheme will nearly triple the size of the centre and the 1.5 million square feet of retail space would include a major department store.

A family leisure complex with a multi-screen cinema, bowling and restaurants, along with 600 new homes and car parking are also part of the project. The company estimates it will create more than 5,000 permanent local job opportunities including full-time and part-time work. However Westfield — which will unveil its plans at a public consultation next week — faces a challenge from rival retail developer Hammerson, owner of Brent Cross shopping centre.

Westfield development director John Burton said: “In Croydon there are two very determined companies that want to do this scheme. Our approach is very similar to what we have done before. We are trying to emphasise to the council that we are ready, we are capable and we can write a cheque for £1 billion tomorrow. Who else in

London could do that?”

The company is just weeks away from submitting outline planning proposals, which will include some detail, he added. “We are trying to create momentum to prove to the council we can deliver on a very, very aggressive timescale.” Westfield hopes for a decision from the council by October.

Mr Burton, who was in charge of delivering the Stratford City mall, said it was a crucial time for Croydon, with 850 jobs in the town at risk after department store Allders went into administration. He said the centre could be fully open by 2018 but insisted that while work would be extensive, the centre would stay open throughout.

Westfield lost out to Hammerson in an initial bid to the Whitgift’s major leaseholders, but is the preferred bidder of the Whitgift Foundation charity, which owns the centre freehold.

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London master planner creates a new west London city with 12,000 homes

Architect Terry Farrell unveils his vision for a forgotten 99-acre industrial site three miles from Oxford Circus that will transform west London, reports David Spittles

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terrenos en la actualidad

Tube and train upgrades provide the single biggest boost to property prices, catapulting a district from dire to desirable in five years and doubling house values. Homes in the revitalised King’s Cross/St Pancras area, now Europe’s busiest transport hub, have done just that since 2007.

So where should home buyers be looking now? One answer lies in grandly named Park Royal City, in a plan unveiled this week by architect and London master planner Sir Terry Farrell. It refers to 99-acre Old Oak Common, bigger than the whole of the Royal Docks in east London, and known for not very much except its railway depots.


Insiders are already scouting this hidden district of north-west London where a giant transport interchange is planned that will link with Crossrail and HS2, the proposed “electric spine” between London and the North, a project given momentum by the Government’s £9.4 billion package of rail infrastructure investment announced last month.

Much of the land is owned by public sector bodies and is disused. Hammersmith and Fulham council believes regeneration will have a huge impact on surrounding areas such as Acton and Harlesden, and the ripple will spread to Shepherd’s Bush and White City, north Kensington and Chiswick.

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United Kingdom: Planning Act Infrastructure Categories Extended To Include Thames Tunnel

09 July 2012
Article by Angus Walker

Today's entry reports on the first general extension to categories of nationally significant infrastructure project.

After yesterday's entry on the Silvertown Tunnel, now it is the turn of the Thames Tunnel to become an official nationally significant infrastructure project (NSIP), but by a different route. In fact the Thames Tunnel became an NSIP first, but the statutory instrument giving effect to the change has only just been published. You wait ages for a non-NSIP to become an NSIP and then two come along at once.

Rather than declare that that specific project should be treated as an NSIP as happened this week with the proposed Silvertown Tunnel in east London, this time the list of categories of project that are NSIPs has been extended in general, specifically aimed at the Thames Tunnel, but it will catch any other projects of that type above the size threshold.

Here is the statutory instrument that makes the amendment to the Planning Act, which came into force six days ago. This is the first change to the list of categories of NSIP - there have been many calls to raise or lower the thresholds, but no changes have actually been made until now. In fact, this change is not a raising or lowering of a threshold, but an extension to the description of the category together with its own threshold. The words 'or of infrastructure for the transfer or storage of waste water' have been added to the definition of a waste water NSIP, with a corresponding threshold, namely a capacity for the storage of waste water exceeding 350,000 cubic metres. That's a whole lot of, erm, waste water - 140 olympic swimming poolsful.

In fact the threshold is considerably lower than needed to catch the proposed Thames Tunnel supersewer, which is about five times that size - it was 'calibrated' by reference to the smaller Lee Tunnel, currently under construction to the east of the Thames Tunnel route.

The statutory instrument has an additional provision to allow any pre-application steps already taken by Thames Water (or the promoter of any project above the new threshold) to count towards its application if they would have counted had the project been an NSIP at that time. I think that Thames Water has therefore essentially carried out two of the three strands of pre-application consultation but still needs to do the general public consultation strand.

The process for enacting this statutory instrument was fairly lengthy, taking nearly a year. A draft was first published back in July 2011 for consultation, which closed in October. The government issued its response in January this year, and the draft SI was then laid before Parliament in February. After having debates on it in both the House of Lords and the House of Commons (since it is subject to the 'affirmative' procedure, for the technically-minded), it was finally 'made' a week ago.

Any other changes to NSIP thresholds are likely to follow the same process, so we will have plenty of notice of them. The only one where the government has undertaken to bring changes forward is that for railways - see this Hansard extract (at the bottom of column 112).

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On Property: Shoreditch to come up with the goods for Hammerson

Peter Bill

06 July 2012

Towards the end of the year a planning application will be made for a 3.75 million-square-foot space on what the developers call “the largest undeveloped site in central London”. Well, nearly central London.

The 10-acre site, named Goodsyard, is situated 400 yards north of Broadgate, to the east of Shoreditch High Street.

There is one other limiting factor: a gigantic concrete box on stilts which houses the East London railway splits the mile-long site from end to end. Even so, Hammerson and 50:50 partner Ballymore reckon to build 2000 homes and a million feet of office space on the plot which is around 500 feet wide.

The former goods yard has lain derelict for more than 40 years. The former London terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway became the Bishopsgate goods yard when the passenger services moved to Liverpool Street in the 1880s. In 1964 a fire destroyed the main goods shed and the terminus was abandoned.

Hammerson has held an option on the land for a decade. It’s taken that long to build the new Shoreditch High Street station at the western end of the site and build that enormous concrete box. The purpose of the box is of course to allow offices and homes to be built around and over the line.

Permission has been granted for a 50-storey residential tower across Shoreditch High Street at the Principal Place development. Ballymore will build the flats. The plans show “an opportunity for taller buildings” as well as “mid-rise” towers along the High Street frontage. So the detailed planning application is likely to contain three or four fairly tall towers.

This might sound a bit dense but an open space the size of Trafalgar Square is promised outside the station: the outline plans also show a very large park covering a quarter of the site. But don’t pack your picnic baskets yet: after lying derelict for decades it will likely be another decade before the site is good enough to eat off.

Hammerson has pledged to turn itself into a retail-only business. But a spokesman says they “are not selling”. Why? Getting planning on a site this size will take a year or so. But once that happens the Goodsyard land will become pretty valuable. No doubt Hammerson will then think again.

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Go for Greenwich: Quintain deal poised to kick-start development

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Peninsula plan: a computer image of how Quintain’s link-up with Knight Dragon will bring forward the area’s regeneration over the next decade


18 June 2012
Russel Lynch
London developer Quintain jumped into bed with a Hong Kong billionaire today, in a deal that should kick-start the building of up to 10,000 homes on the Greenwich Peninsula.

The firm’s shares leaped more than 26% as it unveiled the partnership with Henry Cheng Kar-shun, who chairs New World Development, a £4.6 billion conglomerate. The Cheng family — which made its initial fortune in jewellery — is worth an estimated £10.2 billion.

The deal will see Quintain gain up to £300 million in debt financing from Hong Kong to bring forward the Greenwich Peninsula regeneration over the next decade, saving the developer from having to put more of its own cash into the project.

Finance director Rebecca Worthington said: “We now have the capital to make this happen. “The reason they have put up the money is because they believe in London,” she added.

Cheng’s Knight Dragon vehicle now takes a 60% stake in the Greenwich scheme after paying Quintain £78.8 million, although the developer reckons that it could end up receiving as much as £150 million over the next six years before development profits.

Quintain’s previous partner at Greenwich, Australian developer Lend Lease, sold its stake in the scheme for £100 million, booking a £25 million profit. Lend Lease will pump the funds into other London regeneration schemes at Elephant & Castle and Stratford.

In the pipeline
9800 homes
3.5 million sq ft commercial district
350,000 sq ft of retail space
25,000 workers

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On top of the Tanks

Tate Modern’s spectacular new underground galleries open to the public today — but even more impressive will be Herzog & de Meuron’s 11-storey extension to be built over them

Tate Modern’s three new Tanks galleries, which open to the public today, are an extraordinary setting for Tate’s Olympic-season spectacular. The 15-week Art in Action festival will include film screenings, talks, dance and artworks. Thereafter, the former subterranean oil tanks that once stored fuel for the Bankside power station will be permanently dedicated to exhibiting live art, performance and installations.

But more interesting for the future of Tate Modern is that to visit these amazing spaces is also to tour the foundations of Tate Modern 2 — the planned extension that Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (who transformed the Giles Gilbert Scott-designed Bankside power station into Tate Modern in 2000) will add to the south side of the building. Even though the second phase isn’t due for completion until 2016, the £215 million total budget has already been raised. It includes a £7 million donation from the Greater London Authority and a £50 million Government investment — the largest capital commitment to a cultural project in the UK since the British Library.

Work started on the extension four years ago. Much of the labour has been spent underpinning and building the foundations for the new building, in and around the oil tanks.

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