Finsbury Park Station/City North Development

Eliz

Is the yellow car wash and fruit stall area due to be redeveloped? Surely there must be plans for that section of the road?
Counting down the days until the new entrance opens and I don't have to walk under that depressing bridge every day.

miss annie

Walk round the corner to Fonthill Rd and down to the other entrance - much better.

Scruffy

I hope that car wash gets closed down. So many times I've seen the cars half out of the car wash and half on the pavement, still being washed, forcing pedestrians to walk in the cycle lane and cyclists into the road. Islington council is too spineless to do anything about it. And every night when the car wash closes, they leave dirt and rubbish that has been hosed onto the pavement.

Eliz

Can I use the Seven Sisters road entrance in the morning? Thought it was closed during rush hour?
If it's open in the mornings I'll definitely start going that way.

Sutent

The Seven Sisters gate is open now at peak times.

I am not sure if anyone has noticed change in the sequencing of the bi-directional wide ticket gates at Finsbury Park. The timing on which the yellow light is on does not always correlate with the flow of people through the station. This leads to frustration of passengers as some people keep putting their oyster cards on the yellow reader when the light is red rather than wait it for it go yellow.

Eliz

Excellent news, thanks Sutent!

Ali

This is really comming along and certainly has presence, dominates the area. I was wondering what use the old PO sorting office will eventually have, nice old building right next to the development

Arkady

http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2018/09/finsbury-park-highbury-islington.html?m=1

miss annie

That article doesn't mention the sorting office?
Those new buildings look like they will be a miserable to live in.

Scruffy

Erotic offings!

Ali

The building that was the home of CND seems to still be there

gardener-joe

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Arkady

I'll be using that M&S foodhall a lot.

krappyrubsnif

What building that used to be CND?

krappyrubsnif

I'll be glad to see the back of the yellow car wash. Thieves. Took stuff from my vehicle glove compartment, heard the same from others too.

gardener-joe

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krappyrubsnif

I didn't bother, insignificant, a GPS cable and window sucker, but cost me ten quid and some inconvenience to replace. Not the sort of thing you expect anyone to nick really. Desperate, eh?

Arkady

What's happened to the car wash?

Ali

The CND office was the house almost directly opposite the old PO sorting office

krappyrubsnif

Very clean car. Cleaned out.

krappyrubsnif

Was it the original CND office from the start, before Holloway Road?

Ali

Don't know but the symbol was designed in flat above Fishers & Cook in Bstock Road. Great Ian Jack article about in the Guardian last year or so

krappyrubsnif

Excellent local info!

Ali

Any one got dates for this ? According to TfL it is 2019 ?

They also make this statement

The lift shafts have been built and the new lifts will be installed and open to the public at the end of 2018

Don't think that has happened ?

Sutent

I hope we get a whole foods

gardener-joe

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Arkady

Jesus.

The dates that I was given a year ago were:

Block C – Long linear Block 1st Phase –Wells Terrace end - Autumn 2019
Podium - *Access to Finsbury Park London underground Station – Late Autumn 2019*
Block C – long linear block - 2nd Phase Goodwin street end – Winter 2020
Block B – Cylindrical Tower – Handover - Winter 2020
Block D – Longitudinal Block along wells terrace/ shop frontage- Winter 2020
Block A – Rectangular tower – Late Spring 2020

- they then corrected to say that access to the station via Goodwin Street would be earlier - in April 2019, with Wells Terrace open in the Autumn. Seems that they've rowed back on that now. I've been requesting updates from the developer for a while, but they're not replying.

Arkady

No idea why the lifts are delayed, that's largely a separate project.

Edit - "weeks rather than months" according to that article.

miss annie

The lifts are there. You can see them from the interchange between Vic & Picc lines - look left as you head to Picc line at the bottom of the stairs by the info office.

Papa

Considering they let the developer get away with shutting the Wells Terrace entrance for so long, causing problems for locals to help it save money, it's pretty disgraceful it's now delayed.