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Somewhat surprised it's taking that long, but perhaps the owners want the City North site to be well bedded in before applying for another tower.
I don't want skimmed. I want soya.
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry, we don't sell soya.
Yeah, I'm real sorry too. (pulls out an Uzi)
@minim: Yes. There will be two entrances heading into the station from the new concourse. One will join the exiting main tunnel that has the various stairs leading down to the tube - it will open out at the end of the corridor where you currently turn left to head towards the Seven Sisters exit.
The other entrance will open into an extension of the tunnel that is right in front of you when you enter via the National Rail entrance - it's currently hidden by a door just before you turn right to go up the stairs to the National Rail corridor. That extension tunnel will have lifts and stairs going up to the National Rail platforms, one of which will also go down to the underground.
The new concourse: https://www.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/hero_tablet/public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/13/10/finsbury1.jpg
The new station plan (except that the sticking-outy brown bit on the left won;t be there, as that's the old tunnel that lead to the Wells Terrace entrance)
https://www.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/hero_tablet/public/thumbnails/image/2015/02/13/10/finsbury4.jpg
Make sense?
If you go up onto the mezzanine corridor at the moment you'll notice that the end of it by the spiral stairs is closed off- the new stairs will be behind that hoarding.
And yes, it's a massive fudge and they should do a London Bridge on it but £££££££££.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/26/ghost-towers-half-of-new-build-luxury-london-flats-fail-to-sell
http://islingtontribune.com/article/hong-kong-sales-pitch-for-luxury-flats-a-slap-in-face
Interestingly, if you speak to those who properly know London property - ie whose job has been buying and selling it for decades and by that I don't mean your common or garden estate agent - they point out that domestic buyers just don't want these new-build tower flats.
The average premium on a new build is 30% on existing stock - but British owner occupiers prefer the existing stock, or at a push will buy new builds that reflect it.
Developers would need to sell the City North-style flats at a discount to existing homes to really shift them to mainstream British buyers.
That creates a vicious circle where the new build towers are marketed more to overseas buyers and get packed with all the gyms, pools and bells and whistles that pushes up the cost and the service charge even more - and thus makes them even less attractive to domestic buyers.
Mind you, if the bottom falls out of the new build market, then you can negotiate some big discounts. I know people who bought flats at Highbury in the Arsenal stadium development and at Hornsey Baths for massive discounts in about 2008 or 2009.
I struggle to work our geographically where they can go so avoid them.
They take you a bit further down the Piccadilly line platform - toward the back of westbound trains. I mostly travel late morning and like to avoid museum bound school groups who all get on in the middle.
I noticed that Work has started in fitting out Clifton house where the Gym was situated - does anyone know what it is going to be?