I rather doubt this, myself. The same property company has made a number of different proposals for the redevelopment of the site over the past ten-fifteen years, but none of them got any further than the proverbial drawing board. I may be excessively cynical but, given that record, I wouldn't be surprised to see this new plan evaporate into the ether.
And if you look closely at the new plan, parts of it appear distinctly unworkable. All that new housing and shops -- but no transport links save for a proposed pedestrian bridge to Pimlico. Not reality-based, as a neocon policy wonk might say....
I had a briefing session a few months back with the company. Parkview have only owned the site since 1997, and have been tied up with all sorts of planning hassles, problems securing the whole site, planning enquiries, legal challenges and all sorts. If they haven't pulled out yet, I doubt they will now. And there's lots of materials now being delivered to the site.
Re: transport. They're meant to be spending £10m on beefing up the BR station. And also intend to do some sort of river taxi thing. Given that it's supposed to be completed in 1012, they can probably piggyback on olympics stuff.
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I rather doubt this, myself. The same property company has made a number of different proposals for the redevelopment of the site over the past ten-fifteen years, but none of them got any further than the proverbial drawing board. I may be excessively cynical but, given that record, I wouldn't be surprised to see this new plan evaporate into the ether.
And if you look closely at the new plan, parts of it appear distinctly unworkable. All that new housing and shops -- but no transport links save for a proposed pedestrian bridge to Pimlico. Not reality-based, as a neocon policy wonk might say....
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Re: transport. They're meant to be spending £10m on beefing up the BR station. And also intend to do some sort of river taxi thing. Given that it's supposed to be completed in 1012, they can probably piggyback on olympics stuff.