Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration programme
The Brent Cross Cricklewood programme is the biggest redevelopment and growth programme Barnet Council has ever undertaken. It is one of the Mayor of London’s key growth projects, and amongst one of the most ambitious across Europe.
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A new town
Brent Cross Town will be a new park town at the heart of the development. It will include 6,700 new homes, office space for up to 25,000 jobs, and a high street offering a mix of shops, cafés and restaurants.
The scheme is built around a number of pioneering concepts, including providing a ‘15-minute town’ where people can work, socialise, and learn all within a 15-minute radius of their home, and having a bespoke ‘sound framework’ that helps to shape the design.
Existing schools will be moved to new upgraded buildings, while the town will include eight public squares, and seven new and improved parks, with facilities for everything from traditional sports like tennis and football to activities like bouldering, parkour and BMX.
Transport
Brent Cross West station opened in December 2023 and is the first major new mainline train station in London in over a decade.
The station provides a gateway to north London’s new park town, Brent Cross Town, with trains from central London taking as little as 12 minutes. There are also direct links to Luton international airport and connections with Eurostar services from St Pancras.
In its first year of operation, 575,000 journeys have been made to and from Brent Cross West, with nearly 2,000 journeys now being made each day.
Brent Cross West also has a new overbridge which gives pedestrians and cyclists the ability to cross this part of the Midland Main Line for the first time since it was built more than 150 years ago, linking communities on both sides of the station.
Transport improvements also include major works to roads, including junction improvements on Cricklewood Lane, Tilling Road and Geron Way. Works range from installing new traffic signals and street lighting, to creating new footways and highway surfaces. Cycle paths and footways are also being embedded in the new town from the outset, to ensure the area is well-connected.
Interactive map of our various works programmes
Stay in touch
In addition to the dedicated website, you can also sign up to receive the regular e-newsletter about the Brent Cross Cricklewood programme. There is also a Twitter account and you can email the team on TransformingBX@barnet.gov.uk