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After 10 years and costing over £12bn the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park opens to the public on Saturday 5th April, revealing “the biggest new park in Europe for 150 years” with 560 acres of public space, 4,300 new trees and five sporting venues.
Click link to go to the Park’s website:
The Bank of England on Wednesday abandoned its six-month-old strategy of pledging to consider raising interest rates only when unemployment falls to 7 percent, saying it would now consider a range of factors.
Mark J. Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, also stressed that a rate increase was still some way off. Click to view story on NY Times
A local Estate Agent is calling Hackney Central ‘Mareditch’. The Evening Standard is getting all alliterative and saying Hackney Central is all about: “burgers, boozers, bikes and, of course, beards”. Meanwhile the Dalstonist forbids using ‘Mareditch’…
Click to go to a good beard gallery on the Guardian
The Guardian is running a story on London’s magnetic pull for young people all over the UK, illustrated by the statistic that one in three 22-30 year olds leaving their UK hometowns end up in London. Click image to go to the story.
Net flows of people to London. Click image to go to Guardian story
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Interesting video from CBRE looking at new research on the effect Crossrail will have on house prices in London.
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Click image to view video
Homeowners with the good fortune of having planted themselves along the Central, Piccadilly, Victoria or Jubilee lines or relevant sections of the Northern line can expect an effect on house prices and rents following news that these lines will shortly be operating right through the night. Click the image below to see the Night Tube Map
Click image to see night tube map
The Hackney Fashion Hub is a major regeneration project on the edge of Hackney Central town centre that will create a new focal point for UK fashion in the heart of London’s East End. The project is being pushed along by Harry Handelsman the brains and brawn behind the restoration of St Pancras.
Kudos for Hackney if this project gets the nod.
http://hackneyfashionhub.co.uk/
Crossrail has completed the construction of the first of its new train tunnels under London. It comes as Crossrail’s tunnelling machines reach the 13 mile point in their 26 mile marathon tunnel build.
Crossrail tunnelling machine Phyllis has finished the project’s first train tunnel, 17 months after commencing her 4.2 mile (6.8 km) journey from Royal Oak in west London and Farringdon in central London.
