Plans to redevelop Edgware town centre’s shopping centre could also include the neighbouring bus station after Transport for London (TfL) agreed to merge its property with the shopping centre, owned by Ballymore.
Ballymore bought the shopping centre in July 2020 and has been gathering ideas about how to redevelop the site via a public consultation. There had been expectations that they would take the opportunity to expand the 13-acre site by including the bus station and garage next to it.
TfL owns much of the neighbouring land around the side and rear of the shopping centre, including the bus station and bus garage. It’s now been confirmed that Ballymore and TfL’s commercial property company, TTL Properties (TTLP) have formally committed to combine their landholdings in Edgware, with Ballymore holding the majority stake in the partnership.
The Northern line tube station that sits next to the bus garage is not included in the package.
Source – Ballymore consultation
The details of the development are still being worked out, but Ballymore says that they will deliver “an improved bus station as well as garages and will make it even easier to travel around Edgware while accessing the main shopping and residential areas.”
At the moment, the Broadwalk shopping centre is an L-shaped building with a branch of Sainsbury’s as the anchor tenant at the far end and a large car park to the rear. There’s a large bus garage at the back, and the narrow strip of land between the shopping centre and the tube station is the bus station for the local area.
The plot of land now also includes a strip of land that runs alongside the Northern line, and also a spur off to the east, a legacy of when the LNER had a mainline station in Edgware, where the shopping centre is today. The station closed in 1939 as the tracks were to be used for the Northern line’s Northern Heights project, but that was later cancelled.
The old station was demolished, but the rear remained a goods yard until 1964, and the site was cleared. The shopping centre on the site opened in March 1990.
John Mulryan, Group Managing Director at Ballymore, said: “Edgware, with its amenities and public transport connections, is a town with huge potential, but the changing face of the high street requires a new approach. We are looking forward to collaborating with TfL and Barnet Council to deliver our shared vision of creating an outstanding place for modern urban living, with thriving commerce, new and integrated public spaces, improved connectivity and public transport, new leisure and cultural offerings and a variety of new homes.”
There are no details about when the development will take place, as they’re still in the early stages of consultations and drafting plans. Those plans would then need to be approved by Barnet council.
I have many disabilities will there be a lift in the station up to now I have had to take a taxi instead of going out of the station to get hospital transport to RNOH. I LIVE IN STANMORE AND GO TO THE HOSPITAL FREQENTLY.THANK YOU
No need to shout, but as you live in Stanmore and go to the local hospital, I am not sure why changes to Edgware bus garage will affect you.
There is a lift at Edgware Station and has been for a number of years.
This has been dragging on since before Covid. To rounds of consultation have yielded some pretty graphics and vague collations of wishes but the fact that TfL and Ballymore were doing seperate things – along with Barnet council who don’t own any of it so can only hope – has I think not helped. The broad thrust of the scheme so far is to build flats on the car park to Sainsbury with shops inclusing a smaller Sains below, exactly like is happening at Hendon. What’s actually needed though is improvement to Station Road.
I live very close to the station and the Broadwalk, but I have the say, the way the high street looks like is awful. Also,in the shopping centre, there are problems with the toilet, been there many times in the past few weeks and most of the times the toilets were closed due to ‘no water’. Many customers and employees, where do they go, sainsbury’s? They have 2 toilets for women and probably 2 for men…
I live backing on to the spur that has now been given to them. Promised years ago that it never would be by tfl which is how they got permission to use it as an access road. No consultation with anyone on the road that this might affect
The consultation was open to anyone who wanted to reply – regardless of where they live.
Was confused about the comment about no lifts , one of reasons I use Edgware station is the fact it has lifts ! The whole area needs improving ,but keep some of Edgware station history , I honestly can’t see how it would look worse , May no more flats though it needs some love , I rarely go into Edgware ,because it Is Dirty and looks old and tired and I don’t feel safe ,
Absolute rubbish the land behind my house and tfl stuff was never in the proposal that we all saw
Building over the car park ?
Mmm . Wonder where the cars will park during and after the rebuild
There is nowhere else
Also , will the buses still go in and out using the same service road by the station ?
I can foresee total chaos in Station Road
How can you foresee total chaos when you haven’t even seen the plans yet?
Now the plans have been revealed. They include a 29 story block of flats, over 4500 new flats, reduction of car parking from over 1100 to 800. Can’t get any worse!!
How about a tower block of 60 floors and no car park?
Well to accommodate 23 routes they have 5 stands currently. They propose to only retain one on the developed site. The others will move to Station Road. Station Road already has issues with congestion and pollution. TFL said that there would be Road changes to Station Road to accommodate the buses. This effectively means that most of the parking in Station Road will also be lost to accommodate the buses.
How shops will survive without parking for the customers I have no idea but TFL, Ballymore and Barnet straight faced are declaring this a regeneration when the actual residents know it’s a death sentence.