New Malden Station car park receives upgrade New Malden station car park has had a major overhaul to make it safer and easier for drivers and pedestrians to use. Working with Transport for London and Kingston Borough Council, South Western Railway has fully resurfaced and reconfigured the car park so that drivers can enter, park and exit as conveniently as possible. To improve safety, SWR and TfL relocated the station’s bus stop to an alternative location and put in place a new walking route which is set to help customers navigate the car park with ease. The £55,000 upgrade was funded mainly through SWR’s Customer and Communities Improvement Fund (CCIF), which supports projects that have a community benefit across the company’s network.
Ben Houchen by Platform 2 at Middlesbrough station TEES Valley Mayor Ben Houchen today (Monday) revealed that direct trains between Middlesbrough and London will return by the end of this year, as work gets under way on the station’s £34million upgrade. In order to allow for more services and the longer LNER Azuma trains that run on the East Coast Main Line to the capital, platform 2 is being extended with construction work set to be complete by May, ahead of the restoration of the direct London service in December. Mr Houchen visited the station to see first-hand how the scheme was progressing which, just a year ago, was still a design on a page. Since then, the Mr Houchen and the Combined Authority have been working with Network Rail to significantly speed up the delivery of the improvements.
BUILDING work on 50 new homes in Malvern is underway. The ground at the North End Lane site was broken by Lovell Midlands and Platform Housing Group, and will see a selection of one, two, three and four bedroom homes built. Of these, 14 will be for affordable rent , 14 for social rent and 22 for shared ownership. The site, a former BMX track, was given the green light by planners in January last year, though there were objections from a number of residents and local groups who felt it was inappropriate. One of these, from Malvern Town Council, said the planned access road was ‘unsuitable’ and the increase in cars in an already built up area would be unacceptable.