tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63939228052670256222024-03-21T14:50:24.603+00:00COALITION FOR A SUSTAINABLE BRENT CROSS CRICKLEWOOD REDEVELOPMENTThe Coalition was formed to oppose Hammerson's £4.5-billion Brent Cross Cricklewood (BXC) redevelopment, of traffic congestion and incinerators. THE PLAN WAS APPROVED BY BARNET COUNCIL, but people in north and west London fight on!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3581125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393922805267025622.post-28470230682442828162021-03-15T12:52:00.002+00:002021-03-15T12:56:44.692+00:00Evening Standard: "Hammerson sees close to £1.6bn wiped off estate value as pandemic hurts retail property sector"<br />
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"Close </span>to £1.6 billion was wiped off the value of shopping centres firm Hammerson's property empire in a year that saw the pandemic clobber retailers and their landlords.
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Chief executive Rita-Rose Gagné said the landlord in 2020 suffered its largest fall in net rental income and UK asset values since the group was founded in 1942.
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Hammerson, a joint owner of the Brent Cross mall and behind Birmingham’s Bullring centre, was hit as numerous businesses were forced to temporarily close sites for lockdowns."
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"... 'Brent Cross </font>will be nothing like King's Cross,' says Nick Searl, Argent Related partner and joint lead on the Brent Cross South development. 'We’re not trying to copy what we did there. It is a completely different place. Brent Cross has a very different existing perception. And it’s something that we are going to have to work really hard to shift.'
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"He's not lying. Google 'Brent Cross' and you are not greeted with pages and pages of rave reviews, of blogs fawning over the community, the amenities or the Happiness Index. You are greeted with images of a rather depressing shopping centre and not much else.
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"... A consent earlier this month for a new Brent Cross West Thameslink station means that by 2022 there will be a direct line into King's Cross that takes just 12 minutes, the area already boasts an existing Tube station on the Northern Line taking people into (or out of) Old Street and the City, it sits at the foot of the M1 giving easy access to the Oxford Cambridge arc, and within an hour you can be at any one of five airports."</b></font> <i>[That's enough items in a list. Ed.]</i>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393922805267025622.post-35489869370937078002020-06-15T17:18:00.004+01:002020-06-15T17:22:28.600+01:00Evening Express: "Chairman of Bullring and Brent Cross shopping centres quits"<br />
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<br /><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"The </span>chairman of struggling shopping centre owner Hammerson has announced he will quit on the same day its sites, including Birmingham's Bullring and Brent Cross in north London, reopened non-food stores for the first time since lockdown.
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"David Tyler said he would quit no later than October 1 and be replaced by former Land Securities chief executive Rob Noel, the company confirmed.
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"The decision comes less than a month after chief executive David Atkins quit, following years of over-expansion which has left the business with a massive financial black hole."
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<b></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393922805267025622.post-42562860414194570182020-02-25T23:21:00.002+00:002020-02-25T23:24:11.435+00:00Inside Croydon: "[Brent Cross and Croydon's] Hammerson’s £781-million loss points to end of the shopping mall"<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Over in Fossgate, a mid-week street festival is just beginning. At the station, a line of on-demand driverless pods whisk arriving rail passengers to their end destinations.
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Such is what this North Yorkshire city could look like if proposals approved by the council to make the centre car free by 2023 come to fruition. Or so say advocates."
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<b></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="color: black;"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393922805267025622.post-30067771444028310542020-01-03T21:13:00.000+00:002020-01-03T21:17:14.199+00:00HS2 Ltd: "We invite your feedback on the design of HS2’s Common Design Elements planned for the Phase One route between the West Midlands and London"<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"Common Design Elements </span>are parts of the railway with a standardised appearance which will give it a recognisable look and make it more efficient to build. They include frequently used structures, such as bridge piers and parapets, as well as lineside noise barriers.
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393922805267025622.post-18675628734124094522019-09-19T21:02:00.005+01:002019-09-19T21:02:46.037+01:00Barnet Times: "Delayed Barnet regeneration scheme [by developer Hammerson] is 'being revised'" (As in trying to revive a dead parrot.)<br />
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<br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393922805267025622.post-31187607393773416582019-07-07T22:04:00.000+01:002019-07-07T22:04:10.158+01:00Room 151: "The future for outsourcing after Barnet formula cracks"<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>"This is (I was told) deliberately a preliminary consultation to see how locals react. A further consultation will take place later in the year, supposedly when more flesh will be on the bones. A similar event was held last night about similar plans for Cockfosters.
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>"Housing comprising 150 units is envisaged for the two Arnos car parks. The developer is Grainger plc, a long-established builder and rental landlord."
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"A </span>thousand homes could be built at tube stations in Barnet in a bid to ease the capital's housing shortage.
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>"Major developments are being planned at Finchley Central and High Barnet stations to provide housing, commercial space, improvements to the public realm and better connections for pedestrians.
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>"Drawn up by Transport for London (TfL), the proposals involve building 650 homes in Finchley Central and up to 350 in High Barnet – 40 per cent of which would be classed as affordable."
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“But the plans were on display…”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“That’s the display department.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“With a flashlight.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“So had the stairs.”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”</b></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.”
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<br><br>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6393922805267025622.post-5744073587069209802019-06-16T11:05:00.004+01:002019-06-16T11:10:48.827+01:00Natural History Museum: "Leading scientists set out resource challenge of meeting net zero emissions in the UK by 2050"<br />
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This represents, just under two times the total annual world cobalt production, nearly the entire world production of neodymium, three quarters the world’s lithium production and at least half of the world’s copper production during 2018. Even ensuring the annual supply of electric vehicles only, from 2035 as pledged, will require the UK to annually import the equivalent of the entire annual cobalt needs of European industry.
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">"The worldwide impact: If this analysis is extrapolated to the currently projected estimate of two billion cars worldwide, based on 2018 figures, annual production would have to increase for neodymium and dysprosium by 70%, copper output would need to more than double and cobalt output would need to increase at least three and a half times for the entire period from now until 2050 to satisfy the demand."
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Airport and Department for Transport fight shy of backing new line from Staines that would slash car usage"</span></i>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"Life </span>is easy for the toads and bats of Staines-upon-Thames: the disused railway line has formed a woodland corridor that runs north towards Heathrow. Terminal 5 is just a mile or so further on as the bat flies. But to reach it from Staines station would take a hapless rail passenger almost two hours via three trains.
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>"That could drop to just six minutes under plans to link Staines and other parts of Surrey to the airport. Yet as Heathrow prepares for a major consultation on its third runway on Tuesday, new rail links are just an option, despite the argument that they would help tackle the airport's pollution problem. They would also be a clear answer to transport secretary Chris Grayling's call for 'market-led' proposals for new railway lines.
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>"As a precondition of Heathrow expansion, parliament has stipulated that the proportion of passengers travelling to and from the airport on public transport must rise from 39% to 50%."</b></span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">"One </span>of the many ironies of the climate crisis is that as temperatures change and extreme weather becomes more common, we need more energy to maintain comfort. Hotter summers have driven an increase in power-hungry air conditioning and cooler temperatures in some places – which may be driven by the melting Arctic – raise demand for heating.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"BP's report that carbon emissions from energy use have risen at the fastest rate in nearly a decade reflects those forces, as well as continuing demand from a rising global population and expanding industries.
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