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Hondo Tower threatens Lambeth’s transport policy commitments for a Brixton Overground connection
Lambeth council’s own Local Plan in 2015 and its 2018 draft revised plan state a firm commitment to improving public transport connections in the borough, with its Policy T4 including
Its East-West orbital overground line from Clapham Junction to Highbury & Islington which connects to stations in Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Hackney, passes through Brixton without stopping.
A recommended potential option to connect Brixton to this route, not possible at the present Brixton station , would be for it to stop along a section of the line at the North of Pope’s road, which would require the building of platforms and access infrastructure next to the rail viaduct north of the site where Sports Direct currently sits.
This option was analysed in a Steer Davies report carried out for Lambeth Council in 2014, which advised Lambeth that it would need to choose one additional link.
Another consultants’ reports in 2016 and 2017 by Mott MacDonald confirmed this in “the major schemes still outstanding are: Overground stop at new Brixton Station - under consideration”
The construction of the Hondo Tower on this Brixton site between the viaducts would therefore block a key option for a set of transport policies that Lambeth claims to be committed to!
It’s not sufficient for it just to state that “A new station in Brixton for the Overground could open up commercial development opportunities. The council is keen to pursue this long-held aspiration through partnership working with Transport for London.”
Lambeth must recognise what a commitment to SAFEGUARD means!
Lambeth council’s own Local Plan in 2015 and its 2018 draft revised plan state a firm commitment to improving public transport connections in the borough, with its Policy T4 including
- improved interchanges and east-west orbital links;
- an increase in the quality and frequency of train services to Lambeth stations through investment in station capacity, track layouts and signalling improvements as part of the ‘metro-isation’ of rail services in the borough;
- new station stops on the Overground at Brixton and/or Loughborough Junction as part of improved rail interchanges;
- refurbishment and provision of step free access at the nearby Brixton rail station; [Chatham to Victoria line]
- The council will apply London Plan policy T3 to support and SAFEGUARD improvements to public transport.
Its East-West orbital overground line from Clapham Junction to Highbury & Islington which connects to stations in Southwark, Tower Hamlets and Hackney, passes through Brixton without stopping.
A recommended potential option to connect Brixton to this route, not possible at the present Brixton station , would be for it to stop along a section of the line at the North of Pope’s road, which would require the building of platforms and access infrastructure next to the rail viaduct north of the site where Sports Direct currently sits.
This option was analysed in a Steer Davies report carried out for Lambeth Council in 2014, which advised Lambeth that it would need to choose one additional link.
Another consultants’ reports in 2016 and 2017 by Mott MacDonald confirmed this in “the major schemes still outstanding are: Overground stop at new Brixton Station - under consideration”
The construction of the Hondo Tower on this Brixton site between the viaducts would therefore block a key option for a set of transport policies that Lambeth claims to be committed to!
It’s not sufficient for it just to state that “A new station in Brixton for the Overground could open up commercial development opportunities. The council is keen to pursue this long-held aspiration through partnership working with Transport for London.”
Lambeth must recognise what a commitment to SAFEGUARD means!
