Author: Cyril Richert

Crossrail 2 Safeguarded area update Oct. 2015

Beside the discussion of pros and cons to choose between Balham and Totting as Crossrail 2 stations further down the route, they have also published a new document showing more precise locations for Crossrail 2 work in Clapham Junction.

The main difference between the 2 maps (below the one published in March 2015, above the one published in October 2015) is a greater worksite on the south of the station, and a smaller worksite in Grant Road, especially no longer extending to Falcon Bridge.

Blue Areas: These are areas where the Crossrail 2 proposals have a greater effect at ground level, such as for stations, temporary worksites or ventilation and emergency shafts.

Does that mean that Wandsworth Council will be able to stuck one or two skyscraper just there? Unlikely right now as there will still need for site access.

According to the document, new Crossrail 2 station at Clapham Junction would be underground and could include:

• 2×250 metre long platforms. Station platform tunnels around 20 metres below ground level to the top of the tunnel
• A new station entrance and ticket hall onto Grant Road
• An enhanced station entrance onto St John’s Hill (Brighton Yard? St Johm’sHill Shopping Centre, that we have long advocated ?)
• An improved public realm and coordination with local
  development aspirations at Bramlands (Grant Road)
• The permanent realignment of Grant Road (???)

To construct Crossrail 2 we would require three worksites:

Site A – Would be used to construct a station box, station shaft and a bridge between Crossrail 2 and the existing station. The site includes the existing Network Rail sidings and yard which would be relocated in the northern part of the site.

Site B – Includes Grant Road, a bus terminus and the Church of Nazarene and would be used for construction of a new Crossrail 2 station entrance and station shaft. This site includes an area for the realignment of Grant Road. Works would be coordinated with the London Borough of
Wandsworth’s plans for development.

Site C – Includes an existing entrance and would be used to construct an amended station entrance at St John’s Hill which would be coordinated with Network Rail’s capacity enhancement works.

Responding to the consultation

Crossrail2 is currently consulting until until 8 January 2016 on the different elements of its plan. Further details about the proposals are available at www.crossrail2.co.uk, where you can access a range of factsheets and view an interactive map of the proposals.

To respond formally to this consultation, please visit www.crossrail2.co.uk to leave a comment or provide a response to the consultation questions contained in the feedback form.  Alternatively, you can respond by post to: FREEPOST CROSSRAIL 2 CONSULTATIONS.

Filed under: Crossrail 2

Author: Cyril Richert

Ahead of the plan to run Crossrail 2 through Clapham Junction, TfL and Network Rail have organised a meeting on 22nd July with the aim to provide a forum to discuss and understand local issues and concerns arising from the Crossrail 2 project, and inform the Crossrail 2 proposals in the local area as part of their on-going commitment to community
engagement as the scheme develops.

What is Crossrail 2?

Crossrail 2 will be a brand new railway line, serving south-west to north-east London through central London. It will run on existing and widened railway lines outside of the central core and from a 37 km twin bore running tunnel.

With a very high capacity, it should provide additional rail capacity for 270,000 people to travel into central London, per 3 hour peak (up to 30 trains per hour in each direction). The platforms will be approximately 250m long to cater for long trains. For those familiar with it, it is similar to the RER A in Paris.

The project is expected to cost around £27bn. Construction could start (at the moment there is still no guarantee that the project will develop, and the team is focusing on finance sources) in the early 2020s, with the scheme open around 2030.

What does it mean for Clapham Junction?

A Crossrail 2 station at Clapham Junction will be an underground station providing an interchange to London Overground and National Rail services.

At the end of 2014, the Department for Transport published an updated document highlighting the area they identified for potential surface interest for station entrances, tunnel portals, work-sites, and vent shafts. Those areas are safeguarded, which means that planning authorities will need to consult TfL on applications within the limits identified.

Blue Areas: These are areas where the Crossrail 2 proposals have a greater effect at ground level, such as for stations, temporary worksites or ventilation and emergency shafts.

As you can imagine it deeply upset Wandsworth Council which was planning a cluster of tall buildings near Flacon bridge/grant road, to be used for decanting residents during their Winstanley-York Road estates redevelopment project.

• Read: Winstanley redevelopment at odds with CrossRail 2 plans

However, during the discussion following the presentation, the community groups made it clear that priority for the Crossrail 2 station should be on providing public transport and not on retail or housing development.

Consideration will be given to interchange requirements for an increased number of passengers at the Clapham Junction Crossrail 2 station at an early stage of design. Bus routes and frequencies will be considered, along with connections for cyclists and pedestrians. Crossrail 2 is working with colleagues in Surface Transport to determine how buses should be accommodated into the scheme at Clapham Junction.

TfL and Network Rail are developing the Crossrail 2 scheme together and understand that the community are concerned about the congestion through the station, particularly in the pedestrian underpass.

Crossrail 2 is still at a very early stage and therefore the project team do not have specific details relating to construction practices or logistics. In all circumstances, they will seek to minimise the impact that the construction of Crossrail 2 has on local areas, including on the already congested local road network (particularly in regards to removing the excavated materials).

Timeline

1. Now – Sep 2015: Scheme design and appraisal
2. Oct – Dec 2015: Public consultation
3. Autumn 2015: Anticipated Government Spending Review
4. May 2016: Mayoral Election
5. 2016/17: Further scheme development work including additional rounds of consultation
6. Dec 2016: Autumn Statement
7. 2017 – 20: Submission for Powers
8. 2020 – 29: Construct and test
9. 2030: Open to the public

Crossrail 2 will organise a consultation during Autumn 2015 to provide the public more detail about our preferred route along with high-level information about station locations, vent shaft locations, proposed work-sites across the route.

Filed under: Crossrail 2

Author: Cyril Richert

Ahead of the plan to run Crossrail 2 through Clapham Junction, TfL and Network Rail have organised a meeting on 22nd July with the aim to provide a forum to discuss and understand local issues and concerns arising from the Crossrail 2 project, and inform the Crossrail 2 proposals in the local area as part of their on-going commitment to community
engagement as the scheme develops.

What is Crossrail 2?

Crossrail 2 will be a brand new railway line, serving south-west to north-east London through central London. It will run on existing and widened railway lines outside of the central core and from a 37 km twin bore running tunnel.

With a very high capacity, it should provide additional rail capacity for 270,000 people to travel into central London, per 3 hour peak (up to 30 trains per hour in each direction). The platforms will be approximately 250m long to cater for long trains. For those familiar with it, it is similar to the RER A in Paris.

The project is expected to cost around £27bn. Construction could start (at the moment there is still no guarantee that the project will develop, and the team is focusing on finance sources) in the early 2020s, with the scheme open around 2030.

What does it mean for Clapham Junction?

A Crossrail 2 station at Clapham Junction will be an underground station providing an interchange to London Overground and National Rail services.

At the end of 2014, the Department for Transport published an updated document highlighting the area they identified for potential surface interest for station entrances, tunnel portals, work-sites, and vent shafts. Those areas are safeguarded, which means that planning authorities will need to consult TfL on applications within the limits identified.

Blue Areas: These are areas where the Crossrail 2 proposals have a greater effect at ground level, such as for stations, temporary worksites or ventilation and emergency shafts.

As you can imagine it deeply upset Wandsworth Council which was planning a cluster of tall buildings near Flacon bridge/grant road, to be used for decanting residents during their Winstanley-York Road estates redevelopment project.

• Read: Winstanley redevelopment at odds with CrossRail 2 plans

However, during the discussion following the presentation, the community groups made it clear that priority for the Crossrail 2 station should be on providing public transport and not on retail or housing development.

Consideration will be given to interchange requirements for an increased number of passengers at the Clapham Junction Crossrail 2 station at an early stage of design. Bus routes and frequencies will be considered, along with connections for cyclists and pedestrians. Crossrail 2 is working with colleagues in Surface Transport to determine how buses should be accommodated into the scheme at Clapham Junction.

TfL and Network Rail are developing the Crossrail 2 scheme together and understand that the community are concerned about the congestion through the station, particularly in the pedestrian underpass.

Crossrail 2 is still at a very early stage and therefore the project team do not have specific details relating to construction practices or logistics. In all circumstances, they will seek to minimise the impact that the construction of Crossrail 2 has on local areas, including on the already congested local road network (particularly in regards to removing the excavated materials).

Timeline

1. Now – Sep 2015: Scheme design and appraisal
2. Oct – Dec 2015: Public consultation
3. Autumn 2015: Anticipated Government Spending Review
4. May 2016: Mayoral Election
5. 2016/17: Further scheme development work including additional rounds of consultation
6. Dec 2016: Autumn Statement
7. 2017 – 20: Submission for Powers
8. 2020 – 29: Construct and test
9. 2030: Open to the public

Crossrail 2 will organise a consultation during Autumn 2015 to provide the public more detail about our preferred route along with high-level information about station locations, vent shaft locations, proposed work-sites across the route.

Filed under: Crossrail 2