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London Underground gets approval for Colindale station rebuild
A radical rebuild of Colindale tube station on the Northern line has been approved by Barnet Council.
The old ticket hall will be demolished, and a completely new station building with an enlarged ticket hall – around double the size of the existing space.
Although it will be surrounded on both sides by two tall towers, the station itself will be freestanding, and the design, by 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 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.
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.
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