The last update on the redevelopment of Television Centre was back in March, however since then the builders have progressed a long way. I’ve managed to take a couple of sets of photos showing the changes, but somewhere along the line have struggled to find time to actually add them to the site. So this update shows the changes over the last 5 months.
May 2015
May saw the start of scaffolding going up across the front of the spur and stage 5. Also work started at the very front of the site with pile driving between Wood Lane and the vehicle entrance to TC1
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- View of the front facarde of the site covered in scaffolding.
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- Looking along the inner ring road past Studio 1 towards East Tower with the new development by the road.
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- Stage 6 with the scaffolding covering stage 5 visible.
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- View of the Television Centre development from Westfield shopping centre showing diggers on the roof of stage 5
June 2015
In June work was continuing on the site. After trying a couple of times I managed to get my phone to allow me to take a panorama of the whole front of the site:
Panorama of the whole site as viewed from Wood Lane
Across the whole site new hoardings were added, or existing ones were painted and branding added. It seems rather strange – this appears to be one of the most branded building sites I’ve ever seen. Even the hoardings are not the usual plain wood as there is an LED strip running along the middle of the main section. Also the multi-storey car park has been covered in an enormous banner to advertise the development to those going into Westfield shopping centre.
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- View of the front of the site showing the new site hoardings
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- Looking down the inner ring road….
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- …. and again showing the whole of East Tower
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- The front of main block and spur. The rotunda on the top of main block being removed
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- Stage 5 demolition under behind the scafolding
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- Advertising going up on the front of the car park….
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- …. and a couple of days later the complete banner
August 2015
Another set of photos taken in the last week. This was a bit of a shock – I’d not been in the area for a couple of weeks and while I was aware that the plan was now to demolish the spur and stage 5, but somehow was still not expecting to see floors had gone. I also went around the back for the first time since I took the March photos. This was even more of a shock as last time there didn’t appear to be much progess, however this time large chunks of the building had gone. I suspect in the autumn when the trees are bear and I can get better photos even more will have gone.
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- New apartment building going up at the front of the site
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- View across to the main block
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- Spur and stage 5 now a couple of floors less than they were
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- View up the road from Frithville Gate at the rear of the site showing how much of the building has been removed
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- View from the park showing the demolision
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- View of the back of the site from South Africa Road
