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Thank you for posting SE9. The units don’t look too bad, especially for Brent Cross! It does look like an identikit development, cut and pasted from several others going on in London at present! Hopefully there will be some features to make it more distinctive in due course.

I really hope that in the longer term the Brent Cross Tesco site is brought into the redevelopment. It is a useful local amenity but completely car led and increasingly run down.

A big feature of the program was to build a green bridge over the North circular, but this would only lead to a desolate car park if the Brent Cross Shopping centre isn’t redeveloped.
 
I really hope that in the longer term the Brent Cross Tesco site is brought into the redevelopment. It is a useful local amenity but completely car led and increasingly run down.
I do hope the Tesco is retained. I have no issue with improving pedestian and cycle access to the site, but to loose it would mean even fewer supermarkets in the area. Sainsburys at the O2 and Morrisons ChalkFarm is about to / have been replaced by much smaller stores, lets not loose this one as well.
 
I do hope the Tesco is retained. I have no issue with improving pedestian and cycle access to the site, but to loose it would mean even fewer supermarkets in the area. Sainsburys at the O2 and Morrisons ChalkFarm is about to / have been replaced by much smaller stores, lets not loose this one as well.
Having no idea how to loose a supermarket aside ...

I'm sure the overall retail offering of the new development will be an order of magnitude more diverse and greater in volume than a single Tesco shed, and I'm sure there will be one or more supermarkets of the 'metro' size at least.

The whole point of an urban environment is you no longer have go out-out to a big shed to do your big shop once a week, but can pop out to the high street on your way from work every other day.
 
Giant film and TV studio from Troubadour Theatres to open in Brent Cross
Evening Standard | 9 December 2021
A huge new film and TV studio is to open in Brent Cross early next year, the area's regeneration venture has revealed.

The 150,000 sq ft "Brent Cross Studios" will be launched by Troubadour Theatres, a firm specialising in setting up temporary performance spaces. It will contain a single 27,000 square foot filming studio.

The company was behind the acclaimed pop-up King’s Cross Theatre - which housed the Olivier Award-winning production of The Railway Children and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights - and counts Netflix and MTV as clients.

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Wow didn’t expect that! Great to see this site getting a new use, it’s blighted by fly tipping and really bleak at the moment. Studios seem to be popping up all over north London - the former Jehovah Witness HQ in Mill Hill, new Sky studios in Borehamwood and now this! I hope the demand is there..
 
This scheme is well and truly under construction. It’s a huge development and could be quite impressive and spurn further development in surrounding areas. The pavilion is worth a visit. The surrounding road network really needs to be simplified and upgraded. The ghastly Holiday Inn building in the third picture really needs to go.




 
Brent Cross West (Thameslink) station is making good progress. These picture are from the Western side of the station. The exit on this side will exit directly into a retail park. I wonder how busy it will be when it opens as Brent Cross Town will probably still be a long way off completion.

Assess to the existing tube station on the east of the development definitely needs to be improved. You currently have to walk down some poorly lit walkways and then under a depressing subway.




 

The new Brent Cross Town park has now opened. I visited it last week, but unfortunately I forgot to take photos! It’s quite nice, and was being well used by the local population. I feel all new developments have similar parks these days so it felt a bit formulaic to me, however I think I’m suffering from having visited too many new development sites as it is nice!

Some nice small food shops have also opened, presumably as a teaser to encapsulate the potential lifestyle to come. The station development seems to be progressing well, from a distance it looks huge! I will take photos next time I go. So far, this development seems reasonably good to me. Early days though!

Too early to talk about the residential element architecture, it’s hard to tell from the renders and they’re only at basement level with the apartment blocks.
 
Escalators at a suburban station! That's quite surprising, presumably, the developer is paying for those
You will effectively have a new neighborhood when it's all completed by the late 2030s, the land immediately around the station will be all offices. It's not just a new station, it's also an altenative way of crossing the railway by foot without having to go through Staples Corner.
 
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