Cricklewood Lane highway works
Improvement works at the Cricklewood Lane / Claremont Road / Lichfield Road junction starting 20 January 2020. Update: now with plan. Read more
Tag Archives: Brent Cross Cricklewood
Rail Freight Facility – March 2019
DB Cargo’s construction waste and aggregates facility at 400 Edgware Road has been making slow progress. Work that was going to be done last year isn’t complete yet. Design work is continuing and DB Cargo are still negotiating approvals and planning conditions with Network Rail and Barnet Council. In early … Read more
Waste Transfer Station – how much traffic?
Barnet have changed the traffic forecasts for the Waste Transfer Station; they say it will have less impact because they’ll keep it open longer and it will only ever operate at 75% capacity. We say the planning committee can’t approve it on that starry-eyed assumption. Read more
Brent Cross expansion on hold
Hammerson announced the expansion of Brent Cross shopping centre was on hold. It’s not obvious what this means for us, especially now that Brent Cross Cricklewood’s been divided into three parts. We try to break it down. Read more
Waste Transfer Station – application amended
A whole new batch of documents arrived on Barnet’s planning portal on July 11th. They include extended hours of operation and justifications for the junction not complying with highways standards. Read more
Superhub go-ahead – more noise allowed
Barnet planners have changed the planning conditions for the road/rail aggregates/construction-spoil superhub at 400 Edgware Road. Read more
Superhub: no intervention from Mayor of London
Today, the Mayor of London has told Barnet Council he won’t step in. Barnet planning committee’s approval of Barnet Council & DB Cargo’s planning application for an aggregates/spoil superhub at 400 Edgware Road stands. Read more
Superhub approved – what’s next?
Barnet’s planning committee approved the application for an aggregates/spoil road/rail site at 400 Edgware Road. The application now has to be referred to the Mayor of London. Read more
Superhub: email to planning, Barnet CEO and London Assembly members
After seeing the email from John Hooton (CEO of Barnet Council) to Andrew Dismore, we’ve sent this to planning at Barnet and copied him in, along with London Assembly members Navin Shah and Andrew Dismore. Read more
Superhub: reasons for opposition
The Railway Terraces Community Association have produced a full but wonderfully readable account of the many reasons to oppose the aggregates/construction-waste Rail Freight Facility. Read more