{"id":41,"date":"2016-10-11T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-04-11T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T16:25:10","slug":"we-need-your-input","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/","title":{"rendered":"What future for Old Oak?"},"content":{"rendered":"

About the Forum:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0We are a neighbourhood forum designated by OPDC in 2018 and redesignated in 2023.\u00a0 We hold meetings via Zoom each month, open to all our members.\u00a0 Our next session will be on Tuesday 5th May at 6.30pm.\u00a0 (<\/span>Our usual Thursday is Election Day for London Borough Councils, and people may be voting in the evening).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Zoom link and agenda will be circulated a few days in advance.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Slides from our April meeting are now posted<\/a> on this site.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Timelines for the completion of Old Oak Common station, and the start of\u00a0 HS2 services from Birmingham to Old Oak, still remain uncertain.\u00a0 The HS2 project has been undergoing a ‘comprehensive reset’ since June 2025. The outcome is not now expected to be announced before mid 2026.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0OPDC has been acquiring sites in the area around the planned station, and is seeking develop partners interested in forming joint venture partnerships to develope these sites along with (ultimately) those owned\u00a0 by the Department for Transport and in use as HS2 construction compounds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sites forming OPDC land portfolio\"\"<\/a>The OPDC Board on November 20th<\/a> endorsed the Development Corporation’s latest ‘Masterplan Framework’.\u00a0 The area covered lies between Willesden Junction station and North Acton station.<\/b><\/span>Copies of the Masterplan Framework (subject to final changes) are now available for download<\/a> from the OPDC website.\u00a0 The 200 page document shows images and diagrams which are described as ‘illustrative’.\u00a0 At the same time, the document states ‘All detailed development proposals<\/em>
\nwithin the Old Oak area are expected to take account of the vision, principles and guidance set out in the Masterplan<\/em>‘.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our Forum qestions the legitimacy of this approach when the Masterplan Framework has not been prepared, consulted on or ‘examined’ and is not a ‘development plan document’.\u00a0 It proposals involve many variations from the 2022 OPDC Local Plan.
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We also do not accept many of the claims in the document about ‘good connectivity’ in the Masterplan area.\u00a0 Apart from locations close to Willesden Junction or North Acton station, many development sites in this newly defined Old Oak area have relatively poor levels of access to public transport.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Without access to the Elizabeth Line, or other transport improvements, a number of sites within the Masterplan are seriously unsuitable for high-density car-free housing.\u00a0 The Forum does not want a repeat of the development at Oaklands Rise, built on the promise of Old Oak Common station opening this year (2026).\u00a0 \u00a0It will be 10-15 years yet before this rail interchange is operational.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

These differences of view with OPDC have been discussed at the OPDC Residents Panel<\/a>.\u00a0 Our neighbourhood forum is one of eight local organisations with representatives on this Panel, set up in September 2025.\u00a0 More information about the panel can be viewed on the OPDC website.<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Please email to oonforum@gmail.com<\/a> to join our mailing\/membership list.\u00a0 \u00a0PDFs of the slides used at our meetings can be downloaded from this page<\/a>\u00a0on this website.<\/strong><\/span> 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.\u00a0 Membership of the Forum is free and open to all.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About the Forum:\u00a0We are a neighbourhood forum designated by OPDC in 2018 and redesignated in 2023.\u00a0 We hold meetings via Zoom each month, open to all our members.\u00a0 Our next session will be on Tuesday 5th May at 6.30pm.\u00a0 (Our usual Thursday is Election Day for London Borough Councils, and people may be voting in … Continue reading “What future for Old Oak?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":132,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldoakneighbourhoodforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}