About the Project
What?
The Paddington Places strategy seeks to transform North Paddington’s fragmented neighbourhoods into a vibrant, healthy, and inclusive area by rebalancing the environment to enable legible and safe pedestrian and cycle movement, and to create great public spaces.
Where?
Paddington Places focuses on the area between and around Royal Oak tube Station and the Edgware Road tube Stations, including Bishops Bridge Road, the section of Canal between Warwick Ave and Paddington Basin, and the area around City of Westminster College.
Why?
Paddington has never been a ‘typical’ area of London as it has been continually disrupted by infrastructure over a long period of time. The Westway has been an emblem of disruption and severance in the city and the most visible symbol of a series of metropolitan innovations that Paddington has adopted over the last 250 years, resulting in an unusual concentration of linear infrastructure, urban ‘scar tissue’, and a loss of distinctive places that connect between otherwise successful parts of Westminster: this is the condition that this project seeks to address and transform.
When?
The Paddington Places strategy includes a comprehensive programme of projects that will be delivered across a range of timescales.
The development programme includes short term projects, such as small public realm improvements, to be delivered over the next few years; medium term projects such as new public spaces and street renovations over the next 10 years; and long term projects such as new developments or major changes to highway layouts that will likely be delivered after 2030.
We are engaging on a strategy for the area which sets out guidelines for connectivity, healthy landscapes, and placemaking as well as concept designs (RIBA stage 2) for a number of sites.
About the Project
What?
The Paddington Places strategy seeks to transform North Paddington’s fragmented neighbourhoods into a vibrant, healthy, and inclusive area by rebalancing the environment to enable legible and safe pedestrian and cycle movement, and to create great public spaces.
Where?
Paddington Places focuses on the area between and around Royal Oak tube Station and the Edgware Road tube Stations, including Bishops Bridge Road, the section of Canal between Warwick Ave and Paddington Basin, and the area around City of Westminster College.
Why?
Paddington has never been a ‘typical’ area of London as it has been continually disrupted by infrastructure over a long period of time. The Westway has been an emblem of disruption and severance in the city and the most visible symbol of a series of metropolitan innovations that Paddington has adopted over the last 250 years, resulting in an unusual concentration of linear infrastructure, urban ‘scar tissue’, and a loss of distinctive places that connect between otherwise successful parts of Westminster: this is the condition that this project seeks to address and transform.
When?
The Paddington Places strategy includes a comprehensive programme of projects that will be delivered across a range of timescales.
The development programme includes short term projects, such as small public realm improvements, to be delivered over the next few years; medium term projects such as new public spaces and street renovations over the next 10 years; and long term projects such as new developments or major changes to highway layouts that will likely be delivered after 2030.
We are engaging on a strategy for the area which sets out guidelines for connectivity, healthy landscapes, and placemaking as well as concept designs (RIBA stage 2) for a number of sites.
Get involved
To ensure that the future of Paddington is a vibrant and healthy place for all, we’re collecting the views and insights of residents, business, visitors, and stakeholders to inform the future vision and masterplan for the Paddington.
You can get involved below, by commenting on site-specific areas, or you can download the urban framework and upload your feedback.
Westbourne Terrace
Forming the north western entrance into Paddington, Westbourne Terrace’s multi-level complex road network generates an illegible and underwhelming gateway to the area. The public realm has been designed to cater for strategic road access needs, leaving a hostile and barren environment for pedestrians and cyclists.
Enhanced routes will allow communities in Royal Oak, Little Venice and the Harrow Road areas to benefit from the growth and improved local services proposed for Paddington.
Design Aims:
1. Provision of new cycling infrastructure and
pedestrian crossings that create continuous and
intuitive routes
2. Creating an entrance plaza into Westbourne Green
3. Unlocking potential uses under the flyover
4. Creating a gateway and entrance into Paddington
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5. Sustainable and engaging environment
6. A comfortable and enchanting pedestrian and cycle
route between Royal Oak station and Paddington
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