We meet via Zoom each month, at 6.30pm. For our next meeting we are switching from our usual slot on a Tuesday to Thursday May 9th. This is intended to make it easier for local councillors to join the session, with less risk of calendar clashes with council committee meetings.
Please email to oonforum@gmail.com to join our mailing/membership list. PDFs of the slides used at our meetings can be downloaded from this page on this website.
You are welcome to join the Forum if you live or work in (or near) the area of north-west London for which the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation has been the local planning authority since 2015. Membership of the Forum is free and open to all.
At our April meeting we discussed the continuing saga of HS2’s threatened four year closure of Old Oak Common Lane, for works to bridges and lowering the road surface to allow passage of double decker buses.
Plans for ‘surface travel’ arrangements at and around Old Oak Common station (due to open 2029-33) have become a growing issue. Transport for London set out their concerns last October, in a set of slides which OONF obtained via a FoI request. The station design did not foresee use as a HS2 terminus for several years, or possibly for ever if private sector funding does not emerge for a new Euston HS2 station and the costs of tunneling from Old Oak Common.
At our next meeting on May 9th, we hope to be able to give an update on the latest plans of OPDC, HS2 and TfL.