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The Paddington Waterside Partnership is the body coordinating regeneration of the Paddington Special Policy Area around Paddington Station in London. The project covers an area almost the size of Soho, creating of about of space between 1998 and 2018. It consists of 13 individual projects in the triangle of land between Praed Street, Westbourne Terrace and the A40 Westway, most notably PaddingtonCentral and Paddington Basin. The ''Independent'' has described it as "the largest central London redevelopment scheme since the Second World War". ==History== The Paddington Arm of the Grand Junction Canal opened on 10 July 1801, linking Paddington to the Bull's Bridge junction near the future site of Heathrow Airport. The Grand Junction (now part of the Grand Union Canal) was the final link in a chain of canals that reduced the distance from London to Birmingham from in 1789 to in 1805; terminating the canal at Paddington gave easy access to main roads into London and the level route meant no locks were needed on its length. In contrast the Regent's Canal needed 12 locks for the descent from Paddington to the Thames at Limehouse. The canal was an instant success, with warehouses and housing springing up around it. Canal traffic increased further when the Regent's Canal linked Paddington to the Port of London in 1820, but Paddington Basin was "practically killed" as a port as business was lost to wharves such as City Road Basin that were closer to the docks and the City of London. Paddington regained importance as a transport interchange with the arrival of the railway in 1838. Canal traffic transferred to the railways during the nineteenth century and fell away completely after World War II; the closure of the Regent's Canal Dock in 1969 marked the coup de grâce. A similar switch from rail to road in the second half of the twentieth century left the Paddington goods yards redundant by the early 1980s. The land became derelict, with no public access to the canal land until 1987. The Paddington Special Policy Area was designated in 1988. The Paddington Regeneration Partnership, later the Paddington Waterside Partnership, was formed in 1998 to coordinate the regeneration of the area,〔 (Official website)〕 now designated as the Paddington Special Policy Area. This followed the establishment of the King's Cross Partnership in 1996 to develop a similar mix of railway and canal land around King's Cross station, a project that became known as King's Cross Central. The first plans for Paddington envisaged of new space, more than the original Canary Wharf development,〔 in an area the size of Soho.〔 This compares with the of 30 St Mary Axe (the "Gherkin") and of the skyscraper at One Canada Square.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=One Canada Square Building Profile )〕 Outline planning permission for the western part of Paddington Basin was granted on 23 April 2001.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paddington Waterside」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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