London's new 25,000-home neighbourhood: huge Old Oak Common regeneration zone is set to become a Crossrail-HS2 transport hub New striking images show an emerging city, with 25,500 homes; 65,000 jobs and a transport hub bigger than London Waterloo. The first Crossrail trains are entering service London’s newest neighbourhood, where 1,600 acres will be transformed, is a regeneration hotspot equalled only by the Royal Docks and Beckton Riverside in the east of the capital. The regeneration of Old Oak Common and Park Royal to the north-west of the capital will be a major new place for Londoners to live and work, with 25,500 new homes and 65,000 new jobs over four decades. Transport is the key Like the late 1800s, which saw London’s main railway termini developed in a ring around the capital’s centre, Old Oak in the 21st century will renew connections with the Midlands and the North, but from a station located further out that will drive new development in north-west...