West Hampstead ''Interchange'' Plans

There is a full article on the Chiltern Railways website . The article has been there for some time, though as Chiltern seem to keep their site fairly up to date, it is probably safe to say that the plan is still under consideration.

Here is the usually accurate alwaystouchout page on the West Hampstead redevelopment:-
www.alwaystouchout.com/project/35

This one came through the Systems Upgrades office. I'm a bit out of date now but it was only a "concept" plan, meaning that it was an idea on the back of a fag packet (probably a little unfair) which required some discussion as to it's viability.

Not that I'm cynical (nooooo!) but a lot of concept plans get made up in order for planning departments to use up remaining annual budgets. There's rarely any money to develop things past the concept stage as "phase 2" detailed planning takes a sizeable wedge to complete. I sensed that this was one such plan.

They tend to be shelved after a while but kept on file on the basis that, should something happen to put it back on the agenda, there's a ready-made concept document. However, by the time this happens the world has moved on and the concept work is mostly irrelevant to the new scheme.
A classic case are the miriad of grand schemes for upgrading Holloway Road to reflect the location of Arsenal's new stadium. We screwed up at the bidding stage and so Arsenal have virtually no responsibility to pay for anything. The local council were much smarter and got a completely new refuse disposal plant. I don't think Holloway Road will be seeing anything like the schemes currently in file boxes in S&SD - formally Marketing-&-Planning.
Mr Nobody is responsible of course.