About the Forum.
We are a neighbourhood forum designated by OPDC in 2017 and redesignated in 2022. We hold meetings via Zoom each month, open to all our members. Our regular slot is at 6.30pm on the first Thursday of each month, for an hour or so. The Zoom link is circulated a few days in advance.
Our next Zoom meeting will by at 6.30pm on Thursday 7th November 2024.
Present and future plans for Old Oak and the area around the half-built HS2/Elizabeth Line rail interchange at Old Oak Common are in a state of constant change. We now await the Budget on 30th October to hear whether the Government is committing to a HS2 terminus at Euston, and to funding both the tunnel from Old Oak Common and construction costs of a new terminus.
Meanwhile the period of years during which Old Oak Common station will need to act as a London terminus for HS2 is extending into the 2030s and possibly the 2040s. This has major implications for the surrounding area. OOC station was designed primarily as a rail interchange and not as a terminus. There are many questions about access to the station by all forms of transport.
In this ever-changing scenario, our Zoom sessions are aimed at keeping local residents as informed and up to date as possible. Although HS2 hold ‘community meetings’ the answers given to questions from our members are often limited and do not address the bigger issues.
Given the many uncertainties surrounding plans for the Old Oak area, OPDC and HS2 have recently agreed to meet monthly with a small group of members of OONF and the Grand Union Alliance, for an exchange of information. These sessions are proving useful. Our November meeting will discuss what we hope will be some definite decisions about Euston and the future of HS2 Ltd in its present form.
Please email to oonforum@gmail.com to join our mailing/membership list. PDFs of the slides used at our meetings can be downloaded from this page on this website.
You are welcome to join the Forum if you live or work in (or near) the area of north-west London for which the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation has been the local planning authority since 2015. Membership of the Forum is free and open to all.