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by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
 
'Super station' mugging fears

PLANS to merge three West Hampstead stations have been dismissed as a cheap and nasty project that will turn the area into a building site for years.
The scheme, which developers say would be finished in time for the 2012 Olympics, will link the existing Silverlink and Thameslink rail stations and the Tube station, and create a new Chiltern Line station, for Marylebone trains.
Stuart Yeatman, property manager of Laing Rail, builders in charge of the plans, told a packed meeting of West Hampstead Amenity and Transport group at Broomsleigh Street’s Community Hall on Wednesday that the company aimed to have the work completed by the Olympic opening ceremony. The development would include shops, doctors’ surgeries, housing, a farmers’ market and, potentially, a new school.
Resident Candice Temple, who lives at the junction of Iverson Road and West End Lane, asked the builders: “We live in the block directly above where you will be building. What compensation will you offer us? You will be making money from our misery.”
Another resident, Loulou Brown, called the proposals a “cheapskate plan”, adding: “I would not like to travel on your new walkway. It portends muggings and rapes. This new scheme is diabolical – cheap and nasty.”
Michael Roberts, a consultant working on the plans for Laing Rail, said: “We want to bring the area up – not create dirty, nasty, depressing spaces”.
Talks on the plans are going on with Camden Council, the Greater London Authority and London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s office. Mr Yeatman said: “If we get support from all those bodies, the proposal for a transport-led regeneration should become part of the local development framework.”
Public consultation could start in the autumn, with plans submitted to the Town Hall early in 2007.
 
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