Ever wondered what the master plan was for the West End and who was behind it all ???
Funding has been successfully secured, to support London First and the West End Streets Group (WESt) for proposals to transform the St Martin’s Lane and Charing Cross Road area into a safer, less polluted and allegedly a more enjoyable environment for people who live, work and visit the area. This project forms part of their key priorities to secure investment for St Martin’s, following a successful ballot this month.
The £27m project, which includes Charing Cross Road, St Martin’s Lane, Panton Street, Orange Street and Whitcomb Street, proposes new traffic-free spaces, widened footways, safer cycling routes and safer junctions across this world-renowned part of London’s West End.
The proposals for Charing Cross Road also include a diagonal crossing at Leicester Square station and additional tree-planting, which will revitalise the world-famous historic home of independent bookshops and leading theatres.
St Martin’s Lane would be reimagined as a treelined pedestrian public space, while the areas nestled between the National Gallery and Leicester Square would become a distinctive cluster of greener streets for people to enjoy, complemented by the creative offer of the Harold Pinter Theatre, National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Watercolour Society, the Japan Centre, as well as new galleries and a resident artist studio.
The WESt group will now work with Heart of London Business Alliance to promote the delivery and funding of the project.
These proposals form part of the proposed transformational Placeshaping Strategy, which provides a unified plan for the public realm and guidance for further improvements to streets and spaces, so that we can continue to shape a world-class West End.
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And there’s more
Click this link for London First plan for these streets.
Charing Cross Road
Marble Arch
Strand/Aldwhch
Baker Street
East Mayfair
Hanover Square
Leister Square
Piccadilly
Tottenham Court Road.
https://www.londonfirst.co.uk/what-we-do/place/west-end-streets-group
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