About the Forum: We are a neighbourhood forum designated by OPDC in 2018 and redesignated in 2023. We hold meetings via Zoom each month, open to all our members. While our regular slot is at 6.30pm on the first Thursday of each month, our next session will be on Thursday 8th January rather than on New Years Day.
The Zoom link and agenda will be circulated a few days in advance.
Slides from our December meeting are now posted on this site.
Timelines for the completion of Old Oak Common station, and the start of HS2 services from Birmingham to Old Oak, remain uncertain. The HS2 projct is undergoing a ‘comprehensive reset’ the outcome of which is not due to be announced until early 2026.
OPDC has been acquiring sites in the area around the planned station, and is seeking develop partners interested in investing on these sites and those held by the Department for Transport as HS2 construction compounds.
The OPDC Board on November 20th endorsed the Development Coproration’s latest ‘Masterplan Framework’. The area covered lies between Willesden Junction station and North Acton station.
We have a number of ongoing issues with OPDC about the status of this Masterplan. It is not a ‘development plan’ document with the associated legal force, and yet the document states that all applicants and developers are ‘expected’ to follow the spatial principles that it sets.
Information on the Masterplan (which involves significant changes from the 2022 OPDC Local Plan) have now been published by OPDC.
Our January session will be discussing what response (if any) OPDC has made to our concerns. We will also be reviewing the latest information on OPDC’s CPO Order, along with any news on the timeline for the ‘HS2 reset’.
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.
The first meeting of the new OPDC Residents Panel took place on September 8th 2025. OPDC minutes of this meeting and the second meeting in November can be viewed/downloaded here.
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.