West 12 Shopping Centre to be Redeveloped

W12 viewed from Rockley Rd

Landsec, the company that owns the West 12 Shopping Centre ,has revealed plans to demolish the back half of their shopping centre site and build a new tower.

During the redevelopment, some businesses will have to close - at least temporarily - such as Vue, Fitness First and Lidl.

Go around the back of the West12 and you can see why they might want to do this. The pizza Express restaurant (which would presumably also have to go) is only a one-storey building. Building up definitely makes sense for the developers.

The bad news is that this does of course mean many years of dust, noise and disruption for local residents. But, hopefully, the rather down-at-heel West 12 Shopping Centre, first opened in the 1960s, will look a lot better for the changes.

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