Folkestone Harbour & Seafront Development Co. has announced the start of construction of the Seafront development, with the first ACME designed residential building.

ACME’s involvement with the project started in 2016 through an invited competition. The amended masterplan achieved planning consent in 2018, and the first phase of the development received detailed planning consent in 2019, allowing the first plot to progress to construction.

In a playful nod to adjacent Victorian seaside estates, the development creates new urban crescents, articulated with curved bay windows and balconies.  20 town houses comprise the lower front part of the first crescent, rising at both ends to two taller volumes containing 64 apartments and duplexes. Expansive sea views on the beach side are complemented by a raised communal garden on the wind-protected side of the crescent.

Network Rail Property has announced it is to bring forward new plans to redevelop Britain’s busiest station, London Liverpool Street, to transform the customer experience.

It’s time the station becomes a destination in its own right, to handle the demands of the future.

London Liverpool Street station is a major transport hub connecting well over 100 million people a year within London and the southeast, with passengers forecast to grow to over 140 million a year by 2050.

This is a transport-led scheme promoted by Network Rail Property focussed on providing big improvements to the everyday experience for passengers, including:

• Increasing the size of the concourse to ease congestion  

• Step-free access across the station and London Underground 

• Delivering 7 new lifts to make Network Rail platforms and the London Underground more accessible.  

• Increasing the number of escalators from 4 to 8 to enable easier access to the trains  

• More ticket barriers to reduce queuing 

• New toilets, including family facilities on all levels of the station. 

• New landmark entrances on Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate and Exchange Square. 

• Additional waiting lounges  

• Better signage throughout, making the busses easier to find. 

• More cycle storage with direct access to platforms 

• More space for passengers inside the station

• A greater variety of cafes, restaurants and shops 

More information

For more information please go to
www.timeforliverpoolstreet.co.uk

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