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.
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1
Celebrate local communities and places to reinforce the existing sense of place as well as engage with new development.
Active Uses
Activate under-used spaces to create new places.
Accessibility
Improve accessibility to make places for all
2
Walking
Create continuous and inviting pedestrian routes that connect key destinations
Cycling
Create cycling routes that connect into the broader city-wide network
Wayfinding
Create a legible and navigable network of streets.
3
Landscape
Create healthy landscapes that are sustainable and enjoyable environments
Safety & Health
Encourage an increase in active travel by creating new healthy and safe places.
Lighting
Create coherent and safer lighting across Paddington.