Camden Town redevelopment canned.

[reddragdiva]

*pint* to John Prescott!

Lights to stay on at Electric Ballroom (Evening Standard, courtesy miss_soap)

Camden Town station will still need something done damn soon, but they're not going to DEMOLISH A WHOLE BLOCK and put up a MULTI-STOREY GLASS TOWER ...

Comments

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

Oi, you stole my header!

[reddragdiva]

Jeez, I went back thirty seconds later and added your name, but you got in there first ;-)

[vampwillow]

speaking as a nearish resident though, it is not good news at all ... to properly rebuild the station (and it NEEDS rebuilding) without being able to open up a full-size access will be extremely difficult, maybe impossible, and take an awful lot longer.

In a design sense, I wasn't overstruck by the proposed surface development, but ...

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know why they can't tunnel sideways and bring an exit up in any of the crappy areas on the other sides of that junction that nobody would give a shit about...

[vampwillow]

AIUI though they need to rebore the platform sections as they are too small and the best way to do this (ie provide the best interchange between lines and safest service to passengers) was to construct the new station in a pit, as per JLE ...

[reddragdiva]

The other factor is, of course, that TFL owns the block the station and market are on, so demolishing it was always going to be easier than using land off to one side, which might have to be bought.

[bar-bar-ella.livejournal.com]

Excellent news, indeed. Ah, happy memories.

Judi rocks my socks. (as Geldof has likewise been doing on a big scale this year)

Thanks for that. :)

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

There is an alternative plan (http://www.savecamden.com/savecamden/Thealternative.htm) that would take up less space, cost less and preserve Camden's character/subcultural sacred sites, whilst allowing for increased passenger growth.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

They should bulldoze the whole of Camden and start from scratch. :)

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

Prescott in "not complete arsehole" shocker!

Mind you, I want to have my cake and eat it, with the Ballroom staying and the tube being radically overhauled to avoid the vile crush it usually becomes of a weekend.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

rawk! i got chatting to some folks at SAVE about it a while back, and they were very angry about the proposals. so was i. i honestly thought Camden was pretty much the only interesting bit of London. i wrote some letters.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Hoorah!

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Not that I believe Judi Dench is a regular Full Tilter...

[reddragdiva]

She probably defected to Synthetic Culture first chance she got.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Stop making me want to go.