{"id":50124,"date":"2018-12-12T11:49:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T11:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=50124"},"modified":"2018-12-12T11:49:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T11:49:28","slug":"homes-built-tracks-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/homes-built-tracks-london\/50124\/","title":{"rendered":"280,000 homes could be built above rail tracks in London, says WSP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Engineering firm WSP found that space above train, overground and tube lines could result in an additional 2,470 hectares of land available for residential buildings across London, the equivalent of 280,000 homes<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-GB\/campaigns\/rail-overbuild?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=intranet&amp;utm_campaign=rail_overbuild&amp;utm_content=report\">Out of Thin Air<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-GB\/campaigns\/rail-overbuild?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=intranet&amp;utm_campaign=rail_overbuild&amp;utm_content=report\">\u00a0\u2013 One Year On<\/a>\u00a0follows a previous WSP report,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-GB\/news\/2017\/how-can-building-above-rail-lines-help-solve-londons-housing-shortage\">Out of Thin Air<\/a>, which estimated that 250,000 new homes in London could be found by building apartments above rail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-GB\">WSP<\/a> has now developed \u2013 in collaboration with UCL\u2019s Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering \u2013 a new methodology using GIS technology to provide a more accurate picture of available rail land best suited for development. With this new methodology, WSP was able to uncover 14% more land with potential for overbuild than estimated previously.<\/p>\n<p>WSP used a set of socio-economic and socio-environmental criteria such as population density, accessibility to public transport and proximity to local authority opportunity areas among others to mirror factors that play a part in decision-making on development projects.<\/p>\n<p>The team also considered constraints that can arise when looking at a potential site for development, including the length of tracks and the size of the site which needs to be 100m minimum length.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50125 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/280000-homes-could-be-built-above-rail-tracks-in-London-says-WSP.png\" alt=\"new homes, WSP, London,\" width=\"871\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/280000-homes-could-be-built-above-rail-tracks-in-London-says-WSP.png 871w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/280000-homes-could-be-built-above-rail-tracks-in-London-says-WSP-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/280000-homes-could-be-built-above-rail-tracks-in-London-says-WSP-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/280000-homes-could-be-built-above-rail-tracks-in-London-says-WSP-696x412.png 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/280000-homes-could-be-built-above-rail-tracks-in-London-says-WSP-709x420.png 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-GB\/campaigns\/rail-overbuild?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=intranet&amp;utm_campaign=rail_overbuild&amp;utm_content=report\">Research from the report<\/a>\u00a0identified the area of land associated with all exposed rail tracks in London\u2019s fare Zones 1-6. If a conservative 10% of this total was delivered it would provide 280,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/more-than-220000-new-homes-built\/49160\/\">new homes<\/a>, assuming that buildings would be 12 storeys high with homes of 100m<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The new research indicates that the London boroughs of Brent, Ealing and Croydon and TfL Zones 2, 3 and 4 provide the most \u2018overbuild\u2019 development potential. In Central London, Wandsworth, Newham and Hammersmith &amp; Fulham also rank highly.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Price, WSP Director said: \u201cAs an industry we need to focus on radical solutions to overcome the housing crisis in our capital. Out of Thin Air \u2013 One Year On brings us another step closer to unlocking the extraordinary potential rail overbuild can provide, not just for London but in cities across the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsp.com\/en-GB\/campaigns\/rail-overbuild?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=intranet&amp;utm_campaign=rail_overbuild&amp;utm_content=report\">Since the launch of the report one year ago<\/a>, WSP has received considerable support and interest from public and private sectors alike.<\/p>\n<p>Price adds: \u201crail overbuild is not just about creating new homes, it\u2019s also about creating new, safe, environmentally-friendly and vibrant communities that such developments can offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey achieve the densification that London\u2019s local authorities can use as economic development tools to provide growth, connectivity and jobs in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineering firm WSP found that space above train, overground and tube lines could result in an additional 2,470 hectares of land available for residential buildings across London, the equivalent of 280,000 homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,572,656,579,947],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-housebuilding","9":"tag-housing","10":"tag-infrastructure","11":"tag-london"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>280,000 homes could be built above rail tracks in London, says WSP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WSP reveal that space above train, overground and tube lines could result in an additional 280,000 homes for residential buildings across London\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/homes-built-tracks-london\/50124\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"280,000 homes could be built above rail tracks in London, says WSP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Engineering firm WSP found that space above train, overground and tube lines could result in an additional 2,470 hectares of land available for residential buildings across London, the equivalent of 280,000 homes.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/homes-built-tracks-london\/50124\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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