New housing strategies from TfL at Future Cities Forum
(Above) Looking north from Thurloe Street by South Kensington station to V&A Museum Tfl will be at our June forum to speak about its planning and housing developments in London. Rosanna Sterry is an experienced planner with TfL, working alongside London boroughs on planning applications to create new homes from often challenging sites around stations and tube lines. Rosanna commented: 'To councils and local authorities the property development side of TfL can feel like a publ
TfL's role in future housing
As part of its development programme with private sector partners, TfL will shortly start work on transforming its assets around South Kensington station. This will improve the experience of the 34 million journeys that take place each year at this important interchange station which serves one of Europe’s biggest museum districts, and a leading education hub (Imperial College London’s main campus, residence halls and the French Lycee are all nearby). In addition it will rede
New model art galleries
With prices soaring in London both for art storage and gallery space, a new model is emerging in South Kensington. Managing Director of Cromwell Place, Preston Benson has attracted investment to a renovation project, turning a terrace of Victorian houses into an art gallery hub with a difference. Architects Buckley Gray Yeoman have been commissioned to turn the project into reality. Flexible rental of gallery space plus rooms where a community can be forged are essential elem