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London Underground gets approval for Colindale station rebuild
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A radical rebuild of Colindale tube station on the Northern line has been approved by Barnet Council. The old 'shed' of a ticket hall will be demolished, and completely new station building with an'substantially enlarged'ticket hall ' around double the size of the existing space.
Although it be surrounded on both sides by two tall towers, the station itself will be freestanding, and the design, by'BDP'of the curved wooden roofline takes its inspiration from early aircraft design at the nearby Hendon Aerodrome.
The station will be built on a new slab over the rail tracks, allowing for the existing bridge-parapet to be removed and the pavement in front of the station widened.
A total of '5 million in funding from TfL's Growth Fund has been allocated for the new station building with step-free access and new pedestrian and cycle links. The project will cost in total some '22 million, so the remainder of the cost comes from the housing development.
The new ticket hall will come with nine ticket barriers (compared to 5 at the moment), and the introduction of step-free access to platform level with the provision of a new lift, which will sit between the two existing staircases down to the platform level.
The upgrade will also be good news for the nearby RAF Museum.
As well as the modernisation of'Colindale Tube station, the proposals also include the creation of more than 300 new homes around the station site, of which half will be affordable housing.
Although'planning is granted, TfL is currently reviewing the applications to build the development, so work on the new station is unlikely to start until 2021, with completion of the station rebuild in 2022.
The proposals are also subject to approval from the Mayor of London.
Colindale station was built as part of the 1923-4 extension of the second section of the underground railway to Edgware, and opened on 18th August 1924
The original building had been designed by Stanley Heaps, who had been employed as assistant to Leslie Green under the Underground Electric Railways Company of London (UERL). It was designed, as were many of the new stations on this stretch of line, in a Neo-Classical Style utilising features such as stone colonnades. These were intended to inspire the character of the of suburban dwellings within the vicinity of the station.
At the time of its construction Colindale was still largely open fields and the arrival of the railway spurred significant development in this part of north London.
Badly damaged during WW2, the station was rebuilt in the mid-1960s as part of a wider development.
The 1960's development above the underground station, 'Station House', was demolished c.2010, The station access remained and was remodelled and re-clad c.2015 which is the structures current form.
And now, it's about to embark on it's fourth stage in its life.
Source: Ian Visits
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