Crossrail’s first development opens in Canary Wharf – we get a first glimpse April 30, 2015 After the endless road closures, building works and general disruption, this weekend people will get their first glimpse of Crossrail, when Crossrail Place, the building housing Canary Wharf's station, opens to the public. As well as the station, the seven-storey building is due to house shops, restaurants, a gym and a cinema. At the top [...]
British Land splashes £210m on Paddington Central site ahead of Crossrail arrival April 14, 2015 British Land has snapped up a site in Paddington where Crossrail is set to push up property and rental prices in a £210m deal. The property giant, which already owns part of the massive Paddington Central scheme, has bought One Sheldon Square, a 200,000 sq ft, nine-storey office building, currently home to Visa Europe, from a [...]
House prices near Crossrail stations have risen as much as 82 per cent since it was announced March 18, 2015 House prices within a 10 minute walk of Bond Street station have risen 82 per cent since Crossrail was first announced in 2008, a report published this morning suggested – almost twice the 43 per cent rise experienced in the wider area. Bond Street isn't the only over-performing Crossrail site, though: according to Knight Frank's [...]
Watch: A drone flies through Crossrail tunnels March 11, 2015 After almost three years the tunnelling for Crossrail is nearly finished and the project is shifting towards fitting out the stations ahead of the hugely anticipated 2018 launch. The BBC has also been busy behind the scenes. For the past four months the broadcaster has been trying to convince the project's safety team to let [...]
Work on Crossrail for Bikes gets underway – and London mayor Boris Johnson lends a hand March 10, 2015 Work on Boris Johnson's flagship “Crossrail for Bikes” scheme began this morning, with the mayor donning a hard hat and clambering into a digger to help break the ground. The first leg will be the route that runs north to south from Kings Cross to Elephant and Castle – notoriously the most dangerous junction for [...]
Bedlam at Liverpool Street Station: 3,000 plague skeletons are being excavated to make way for Crossrail March 10, 2015 A gruesome discovery at Liverpool Street Station is coming to light as archaeologists begin excavating skeletons from a Bedlam burial ground. Work on the new Crossrail uncovered the remains of more than 5,000 people, including plague victims, a former Lord Mayor of London and a murder victim, in a graveyard underneath the commuter hub, which [...]
Crossrail opens its doors to give young Londoners a glimpse of Europe’s biggest construction project March 3, 2015 Crossrail is opening its doors this weekend, offering young Londoners the chance to see what Europe's largest construction project looks like from the inside. This weekend Crossrail is holding a free ticketed Open Doors event, aimed at 11 to 24-year-olds interested in the construction industry, as well as parents and teachers, to visit sites including [...]
London should take a cue from Paris to build transport of the future February 26, 2015 The Chancellor and mayor of London set out a long-term economic plan for the capital last week, challenging London’s transport authority and business community to make the case for much-needed infrastructure investment ahead of the next spending review. This commitment is hugely welcome. We desperately need to future-proof our transport network, as London’s population is [...]
Get rich quick: Why buying a luxury home near Crossrail could earn you lots of money February 26, 2015 No one who commutes into work on the Tube can have failed to have noticed the disruption that the construction of Crossrail is causing. With Tottenham Court Road station closed until December to build its new central London hub, you could be forgiven for thinking “is it all worth it?” Well, if you’ve got one [...]
Boris Johnson’s Crossrail for Bikes to link Tottenham, Stoke Newington, Dalston and the City of London February 17, 2015 The next phase of Boris Johnson's "Crossrail for Bikes" will make it easier for Londoners to cycle from Tottenham, Stoke Newington and Dalston into the City of London, Transport for London (TfL) said today. The new cycle superway 1 (CS1), which will run along quiet streets parallel to the A10, could cut cyclists' journey times from Tottenham to [...]