Help to keep London running: plan around Olympic hotspots July 31, 2011 CITY: TUBE AND MAINLINE RAIL HOTSPOTS THE FOLLOWING IS PREDICTED TO HAPPEN WITHOUT ACTION BY BUSINESSES TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF JOURNEYS Jubilee Line; Central Line; DLR; Northern Line Delays of over an hour possible, particularly at Bank for the DLR. Avoid these lines where possible. Most affected on weekdays 8-11am, 4-8pm and 10pm to [...]
Shell signs £300m redevelopment July 28, 2011 Property developers Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar have won a £300m contract to redevelop Royal Dutch Shell’s headquarters near Waterloo station, Shell confirmed yesterday. The two developers will each contribute £150m to the deal, which will see houses, offices and shops built on the five-acre site surrounding the 1950s tower in central London. Shell [...]
Canary Wharf set to win Shell Centre redevelopment bid July 24, 2011 THE property developer Canary Wharf Group is set to be selected by Royal Dutch Shell to transform the area around the oil firm’s London headquarters, near Waterloo station. The developer, which is majority owned by Songbird Estates, has teamed up with Qatari Diar, the property investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, to offer up [...]
CULTURE FOR KIDS | WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND July 7, 2011 THE RAILWAY CHILDREN, WATERLOO STATION The acclaimed adaptation of E. Nesbitt’s classic children’s story has returned to the former Eurostar platforms and track at Waterloo Station for another deserved run. Set in the Yorkshire dales, the story of the three Waterbury children entranced by steam trains and helping to prove their wrongly-imprisoned father’s innocence, is [...]
Switching the city pad for a countryside pile June 16, 2011 COLIN Ellis, the chief economist at the BVCA, has been working in the City for over 15 years. He had always lived in London, but seven years ago, he upped sticks and moved his wife and kids to Surrey, exchanging a one-bed flat in Clapham for a three-bedroom house in Wouldingham. Now he commutes for [...]
Switching the city pad for a countryside pile June 16, 2011 COLIN Ellis, the chief economist at the BVCA, has been working in the City for over 15 years. He had always lived in London, but seven years ago, he upped sticks and moved his wife and kids to Surrey, exchanging a one-bed flat in Clapham for a three-bedroom house in Wouldingham. Now he commutes for [...]
Travel apps for commuters May 4, 2011 TECH TALK IF late-running trains and Tubes are the bain of the modern communter’s life, at least there are apps which mean you don’t have to get as far as the station to be updated on your travel. Mxdata, for instance, aggregates all the live local travel data (live tube updates, traffic CCTV cameras, train [...]
BORIS SEEKS THE NEXT BLANKFEIN IN LONDON’S POOREST POSTCODES March 24, 2011 ANY City recruiters out there with a nose for talent will be interested to hear about the latest initiative from Boris Johnson’s Fund for London – a scheme to help disadvantaged young Londoners have a better shot at the UK jobs market. Young London Working provides a central employment hub to connect jobless young people [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 17, 2011 Commuting: Based at the southern end of District Line, Wimbledon Station has good access to West and Central London. There are also regular overground trains to Waterloo (taking 19 minutes) and a twice-hourly service to St. Pancras (taking 40 minutes). Education: Ursuline High for girls and Wimbledon College for boys are two above-average comprehensives. Wimbledon [...]
London’s hidden property gems February 24, 2011 ROTHERHITHE, SE16 The renaissance of this former dock has gone largely unnoticed, and house prices are generally cheaper than surrounding areas. Carl Davenport, of estate agents Chesterton Humberts, says Rotherhithe is the “overlooked neighbour” of Tower Bridge. “Prices are in many cases cheaper by up to 20 per cent on a like to like basis,” [...]