£14.8bn is the expected cost of construction for Crossrail, with 73 miles of extra track length to be added to existing London’s transport systems, 200 million more journeys each year and 24 extra journeys to run at peak times of the day per hour. It is Europe’s largest and most ambitious infrastructure project to date […]
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First Crossrail homes completed
Woolwich at Royal Arsenal has received the first wave of competed homes to be constructed. First Crossrail homes completed have been built above a new Crossrail station in preparation for the new transport system to commence by 2018. More than one thousand homes have been developed as part of two separate developments, one of which […]
New Home Building is up by 15 per cent
To build or not to build is not exactly a choice for the British population. Many areas of the UK have been promised new housing developments to accommodate a growing population. The latest statistics from ONS has reported that new home building is up by 15 per cent year on year. There were 131,000 new homes […]
West Ealing has green light for Crossrail
The Crossrail project is heavily underway and with new stations planned and under construction, the new line will serve a greater purpose for Londoners, further extending the tube map to areas which have never had an easy route into London. The latest news off the press is that West Ealing has green light for Crossrail […]
Crossrail Causes Surge in House Prices
Europe’s largest infrastructure project is currently underway, since being given the green light to begin tunnelling in 2008. The Crossrail project, despite not even being completed yet, has caused a surge in house prices by almost 82%. The Crossrail is a 73 mile railway line that is expected to open in late 2018, and will […]