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Some of the balcony finishes look distinctly wonky, as though they don't quite fit properly. The council needs a firm.word to make sure those final finishes aren't neglected.
"We have been advised this week by London Underground that their proposed target opening of the Western Station Entrance for public use is 17th December 19.
The main structures of the buildings are complete.
The external cladding will be largely complete to the development by December 19
The Residential occupation of the development will commence from late 2019 and continue through to summer 2020.
The Retail and Commercial areas are about to commence fitout.
(Marks and Spencer and Cineworld being the two main anchor tenants.)
Negotiations on letting of all other commercial units is at an advanced stage.
The access to the Western Station will be December 19 as above. "
@Arkady I knew you'd get the insider good news! Many thanks for sharing.
Big Christmas bonus for someone if that actually completes on time.
I doubt the private tenants would brook any riffraff breaking wind in their private garden. I believe the usual way of these things is that all entrances and facilities are segregated along socio-economic lines. That is, for example, the affordable housing tenants will have a separate garden from the private tenants, a garden shared with the public, or no garden at all.
The provision of "affordable housing" is just paying lip-service; anyone who builds as hideous a monstrosity as City North doesn't give a tinker's cuss about the locale or the public good. What an eyesore breaking into the sky as one walks down the southern slope of Finsbury Park! I'd like to see the developers and their architect(s) (assuming they did indeed engage any architects for this aesthetic depravity) horsewhipped along Stroud Green Road, Mondays and Thursdays.
What I do *really* like is the lay-out/street-plan, especially how it relates to the new station entrance and creates an extension of the Victorian grid plan. It's just really smart and will have a massive impact.
I also think it's not necessarily a bad thing that the entrance is in private hands as it's easier to lean on a company to make a change (and keep stuff neat) than the council often (given the bridge situ at finsbo).
I often ponder what would a redevelopment like coaldrops and granary square look like if it wasn't in private hands for example.