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INTRODUCTION
The £4.5 billion Brent Cross Cricklewood development is Barnet Council’s most significant growth and regeneration programme. It will create a new sustainable mixed use town centre for Barnet and North London. This regeneration is underpinned by
major transport improvements, including an Midland Main Line (between King’s additional new Thameslink railway station Cross St Pancras and connecting to King’s Cross St Pancras in under Brent Terrace Bedford/the Midlands) Edgware Road 15 minutes.
The Brent Cross Thameslink project includes: • An additional Thameslink station between Cricklewood and Hendon stations; Brent South • Relocated sidings and stabling (train storage) facilities; Shopping Park • A new 24 hour access pedestrian bridge across the railway; • A Waste Transfer Station; • A Rail Freight Facility; • A new vehicle and pedestrian bridge across the Midland Main Line; • Junction improvement works on the A5 Edgware Road.
North Circular Staples Corner Retail Park
Aerial view of the site today, looking south
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BRENT CROSS CRICKLEWOOD
Covering around 151 hectares, this project includes the transformation of Brent Cross Shopping Centre, a thriving new town centre and high street, 7,500 new homes and attractive green spaces, new schools and M1 BRENT CROSS health facilities, and the creation of 1000’s of new jobs. SHOPPING BRENT CROSS CENTRE Planning permission for the Brent Cross Cricklewood project was first M granted in 2010 and subsequently amended in 2014. 1
D R R LA THE BRENT CROSS CRICKLEWOOD PROJECTS IRCU TH C NOR BRENT CROSS LONDON Modernising Brent Cross shopping centre, improving road, cycling AD and pedestrian access and building up to 800 new homes. Delivered R RO ULA IRC by Hammerson and Standard Life Investments. H C RT Visit www.brentcrosslondon.co.uk NO NEW STATION E IV R D E IN N
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E D NDON Creating a new town centre, building 6,700 homes and improving A RO A5 CRICKLEWOO public spaces. Delivered by the BXS Limited Partnership between W A ROAD Y ST HLEY Barnet Council and Argent Related. Visit www.brentcrosssouth.co.uk CRE C IN
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E LAN W LL BRENT CROSS THAMESLINK (this project) HI A IS Y LL Barnet Council, with Network Rail, are building an additional DO
NE Thameslink station, new Midland Main Line Bridge and station O D LA sidings, and replacing outdated waste and freight facilities. CRICKLEWO Visit www.barnet.gov.uk/brentcross
All three schemes are working together to review the emerging construction programmes and ensure that construction traffic in particular is managed communicated in a co-ordinated and effective manner. Overall Brent Cross Cricklewood Regeneration Area CRICKLEWOOD
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A NEW STATION, SOONER
We will shortly submit an application to allow the new Thameslink station and associated infrastructure works to be constructed at the same time. Thameslink Station Midland Main Line Bridge Thameslink Sidings (Indicative Area) Grouping all of the rail-related projects and infrastructure works together into Phase 2. This allows them to be delivered earlier in the programme N than previously planned with the station due to open in 2022 rather than 2031.
• Building the station earlier supports the comprehensive regeneration of the Brent Cross Cricklewood area and helps to unlock the economic and employment benefits associated with the development sooner NORTH CIRCULAR • Current and future residents will be able to use the new Thameslink station sooner and benefit from better public transport links and reduced EDGWARE ROAD journey times to central London • Opening the new bridge earlier will improve links between the Brent Cross Cricklewood development, the Edgware Road and Brent Waste Transfer Station Rail Freight Facility THE THAMESLINK AREA
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We recently asked for your views on bringing all of the rail related projects together and delivering them in a single phase. You told us:
We support the bringing forward of this project and is it is important that transport links are in place as soon as possible for the new development.
Please make sure traffic and timescales are properly managed Sooner the better
Can we please make sure the connection between Brent Cross Thameslink area and Childs Hill & Golders Green be enhanced so we can benefit from this project Really excited to see it executed It is important that people can cycle to and from the station from the new development and from the other side of the station. Just get on with it! Reduce car, air, noise, waste pollution etc. around the area.
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WASTE TRANSFER STATION
Outline planning permission has been granted The proposed facility is significantly smaller than the one that was previously approved and will now be a transfer station for a Waste Handling Facility to replace the where recycling, food and household waste will be collected and transferred to other processing centres. It will not include the incinerator that was originally proposed. The site of the existing Hendon Waste Transfer Station is needed to facilitate the existing Hendon Waste Transfer Station comprehensive regeneration of Brent Cross Cricklewood. adjacent to Brent Terrace. The new facility will be operated by the North London Waste Authority. Subject to approval of the Re-Phasing Application, construction is expected to start in 2019 and be completed in early 2020.
BRENT TERRACE BRENT TERRACE
EDGWARE ROAD EDGWARE ROAD
HUMBER ROAD HUMBER ROAD
OXGATE OXGATE GARDENS GARDENS
Size of the previously approved facility shown in yellow Size of the proposed new transfer station in blue
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WASTE TRANSFER STATION
DESIGN & APPEARANCE, MATERIALS, LAYOUT
The designs for the Waste Transfer Station are at a very early stage. We are considering a range of options for the external appearance of the building. • The facility will be approximately five storeys high; within the heights permitted by the S73 application. • Options for cladding the building include metal framing or Rodeca, NEW MIDLAND a translucent light weight polycarbonate. MAINLINE BRIDGE We will be doing more design work before we submit a planning application in the summer of 2017. We would appreciate your views on these ideas to inform that design work.
CLADDING OPTIONS BEING CONSIDERED Early building design for the Waste Transfer Station Early building design for the Waste Transfer Station
Example of Rodeca cladding Example of metal framing cladding Example of metal screening
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WASTE TRANSFER STATION
OPERATION PROPOSED SITE LAYOUT AND VEHICLE ACCESS ROUTES
The site has been designed to: • Process and store all waste inside the building; • Prevent odours leaving the building; • Have a similar capacity to the existing facility; • Provide space for vehicles to queue inside the site; • Provide parking on site for Waste Transfer Station staff. The site will be accessed from Geron Way via a new signal-controlled junction on the A5. Vehicles transferring waste from the Waste Transfer Station to Edmonton are expected to travel along the A5 and A406 North Circular and not travel along residential streets.
The Waste Transfer Station is expected to be used by Refuse Proposed site layout and vehicle Collection Vehicles to deliver access routes waste and HGV’s to collect waste
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RAIL FREIGHT FACILITY
A Rail Freight Facility is part of the approved Masterplan for Brent Cross Cricklewood to replace an existing strategic freight facility which has to be relocated to make way for the wider Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration.
The Rail Freight Facility that is now being proposed has some significant N differences to the original proposal: • There is now more demand for a facility that can handle building aggregates and construction spoil. These materials have different handling requirements and so a building is not required as originally planned. • Substantially fewer cars will park on site and HGV parking will now be within the working areas. Barnet Council is in discussions with DB Cargo (the current tenant of the existing rail freight site) to develop the plans. If planning permission is granted, construction of the facility will begin in 2019 and operation will commence in Spring 2020. DB Cargo has submitted a temporary planning application to operate the northern part of the site which is currently being considered by the Local Planning Authority.
The plans presented today are for the facility in its simplest form. We will continue to assess the impacts and work on the design to mitigate these before we submit a planning application in the summer. Your comments today will help us with this work.
EDGWARE ROAD
The site at present
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DESIGN AND LAYOUT
The rail freight facility will consist of two parallel rail sidings, with connections to the adjacent mainline at either end. The current proposal is for 5 bays where materials will be unloaded, stored and loaded. Indicative DB Cargo proposed site layout Each bay will have small single storey buildings to provide office PLOT 5 - 5,212m2 and staff accommodation. Cricklewood Curve PLOT 4 - 5,030m2
Bund with 6m Accoustic Barrier PLOT 3 - 4,924m2
HGV Turning Head
PLOT 2 - 5,623m2
PLOT 1 - 6,636m2
On Hendon Line Network Rail
Edgware Road Mobile Wheel Brent Curve
Traverse Road 10m x 442m Weighbridge
Security Hut and Barrier
Proposed Access
Visitor Parking
Dust Supression System, Pump House and Tank Accoustic Barrier 6.9m
Existing Electricity Shaft Fuel Tank
Weighbridge Security Hut and Barrier N Redundant Signal Box Wheel Wash Welfare Facilities Proposed site plan
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OPERATION
The Rail Freight Facility will operate up to six days per week. It is currently anticipated that up to three trains will arrive and be unloaded per day. The arrival times will be determined by the available train slots on the network, but unloading and loading will only occur between 6am and 6pm.
Aggregate will be unloaded using excavators and placed in a stockpile, before being distributed to construction sites across London by road vehicle. An internal access roadway will provide access to the material stockpiles. Access will be via the existing junction with the A5, which will be upgraded. Most of the lorries leaving the site are expected to travel northwards. There will be 24/7 night vision CCTV surveillance of the site. DB Cargo will operate the facility but other rail freight operating companies will also be able to lease land and use the facility.
Example of wheel wash facility
Excavator used to unload aggregate materials Front loader used to load construction spoil onto trains
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CONTROLLING DUST, NOISE AND LIGHT
We know that people will have concerns about the dust, noise and light generated by an open-air Rail Freight Facility.
Johnston Terrace Footway Private Property Embankment Cricklewood Curve 6m High Landscape Bund Network Rail Plot 5 Working Area Incorporating screening and landscape measures has been a fundamental principle in developing the design of the + 6m Fence Access Road Rail Freight Facility. A particular area of focus has been the relationship between the site and the Railway Terraces Conservation Area to the south east. A key principle of the site’s development has been to protect the amenity of the existing southern residential area and the emerging residential development to the north of the site. We will develop the plans further based on your feedback today.
PLANTING The redeveloped site will be far greener than it is at present. This will be DUST achieved by: • The design includes a water-based dust • Introduction of new planting at the entrance to the site; suppression system. This ensures material is dampened before any dust generating activities • The existing boundaries to the site will be improved with new trees or planting. such as loading and unloading and prevents dust • Ornamental evergreen shrubs and wildflower-rich grasses will be planted where particles in the air travelling off site. possible across the site.
LIGHTING • Shields will be fitted to the new lighting columns to minimise light spill as much as possible. Proposed option for site screening and noise mitigation in the south-west • The existing Halogen lamps will be replaced with LED downlighters that will direct light onto the site and reduce the impact on local residents. Current view from Railway Terraces
NOISE Current view from rear of Brent Terrace • A 5m high 400m long acoustic barrier will be positioned along the sidings to prevent noise travelling across the mainline to the Brent Terrace area. • Subject to detailed noise assessment: Top of Acoustic Screen • a bank and acoustic fence up to 12m high in total is proposed to reduce noise traveling to the Railway Terrace area to the South West of the site. • an acoustic fence up to 5m high will be provided to protect buildings to the north west of the site.
View of the proposed acoustic fence from View of proposed acoustic fence showing maximum height the rear of Brent Terrace Final height will be subject to detailed noise assessment
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NEXT STEPS
Thank you for taking the time to visit our exhibition today. INDICATIVE PROJECT TIMESCALES If you have any questions, please ask a member of the project team. • April 2017 – Public information events about the early design for the All of the information presented here will also be available on www.barnet.gov.uk/ BrentCrossThameslink after these events. Anyone who can’t make it along today can view Waste Transfer Station and Rail Freight Facility TODAY the information and comment on the proposals online or by contacting a member of the project team via one of the options below. • June / July 2017 - Further public information events on the designs for the Brent Cross Thameslink project • Summer 2017 - Submission of Brent Cross Thameslink HAVE YOUR SAY planning applications , including new station, sidings, Midland Mainline We’re keen to hear your thoughts on the Brent Cross Thameslink project and in particular the Bridge, Rail Freight Facility and Waste Transfer Station. early proposals for the Waste Transfer Station and Rail Freight Facility which are on display here today. • December 2017 – All planning applications to have been considered and determined by the end of the year You can provide your feedback and ask any questions you might have via the council’s consultation portal at https://engage.barnet.gov.uk by 8th May 2017. If you would prefer not to use the • 2018 onwards – Start of construction work on site, with the new station council’s website to provide your feedback, please contact the project team via one of the planned to open in 2022 options shown on this board, or complete a form today.
CONTACT US NEXT STEPS Call us: 0344 225 0003 We will continue to work up more detailed designs for the Waste Transfer Station and Rail Freight Facility. Email us: [email protected] • In the summer we will hold more public exhibitions to present detailed designs for the Waste Transfer Station and the Rail Freight Facility and Write to us: Freepost RTHZ-AKZT-SABG, the designs for the Station and sidings and Midland Mainline Bridge. GL Hearn, 280 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7EE • If you would like to register for updates on the project and be told If you would like to register your interest in the Thameslink project in order to receive project updates in the future, please contact the team via one of these options. about these events please speak to a member of the project team.
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