Major new £400million city development with tourist attractions and riverside restaurants to open by 2029

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Other immense renovations successful the city include a £125million revamp with a waterpark slated to open

Hope Brotherton, Travel Reporter

Published: 16:38, 31 Jan 2025
Updated: 16:38, 31 Jan 2025

PART of London's South Bank volition beryllium transformed successful the adjacent fewer years acknowledgment to a immense caller improvement taking spot successful the city.

Nicknamed 'The Slab', the tract antecedently housed the aged office of ITV, but has been vacant since 2018.

Illustration of 72 Upper Ground improvement connected London's South Bank.

Planning support for the redevelopment of 72 Upper Ground was granted backmost successful December.

Over the next 4 years, developers Mitsubishi Estate program to alteration the tract into a mixed-use space, arsenic reported by City AM.

Estimated to outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic £400million, images of the improvement amusement outdoor greenish spaces and walkways.

Another representation features riverside restaurants and bars overlooking the Thames, with a rooftop edifice besides listed nether the plans.

When the 2.5 acre tract opens successful 2029, it volition beryllium location to cafes, taste venues and greenish spaces.

Other features are acceptable to see biodiverse roofs for wildlife and outdoor terraces.

Further details, including the brands of restaurants and the benignant of taste venues, person yet to beryllium revealed.

Shinichi Kagitomi, Chief Executive of Mitsubishi Estate London, described the redevelopment arsenic a "significant affirmative contribution" to London's Southbank.

Demolition enactment is presently underway, aft developers won a court conflict past year.

Until the tract opens, determination are plentifulness of attractions to support visitors entertained successful London's South Bank.

Inside the iconic Ritz edifice successful London with celebrated guests from Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill

One of the South Bank's astir well-known attractions is the London Eye.

There's besides the Southbank Centre, which is location to the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Hayward Gallery.

Visitors who privation to instrumentality successful a amusement should caput to either Shakespeare's Globe Theatre oregon the National Theatre.

Other attractions see Skateboarding astatine the Undercroft, Leake Street Arches and the BFI Southbank.

Several different immense developments are besides taking spot crossed the English capital, including a huge £125million redevelopment taking spot successful Ealing.

The Ealing improvement volition see a leisure centre with a 50 metre Olympic swimming pool.

Slated to unfastened successful 2027, the caller London attraction volition see a waterpark with slides and a lazy river.

There volition besides beryllium a brushed play zone, a gym, a creche for kids, and a cafe.

Outside attractions volition see a skate parkland and a playground.

Elsewhere in London, a neighbourhood is getting a immense £10billion renovation.

The immense redevelopment includes a ample kids' playground and climbing attraction, arsenic good arsenic gardens, restaurants, and 'cultural venues'.

London's champion pubs

The Sun's Head of Travel (Digital) Caroline McGuire has named immoderate of her favourites and why.

LONDON is chock afloat of fantastic pubs.

Whether you're looking for an aged man's boozer, a gastro pub oregon a cosy pitstop with a roaring fire, determination is the cleanable pub for everyone successful the capital.

My apical tip? Try to debar the ones successful the tourer spots of Covent Garden, Leicester Square, and truthful on, unless you've got a recommendation. No self-respecting Londoner would beryllium seen dormant successful them.

Here is simply a enactment of our favourite London pubs, from immoderate of the heaviest drinkers we know...

Central London:

Guinea Grill, Mayfair - large steak and pies
The Portman, Marble Arch
Star & Garter, Soho - due spit and sawdust pub
The George, Mortimer Street - large each rounder
Burlington Arm, disconnected Saville Row - Great scotch egg
The Red Lion, Crown Passage - dark, aged and absorbing past with Charles II and his mistress Nell Gwyn
Ye Grapes, Shepherds Market
The Chesterfield Arms, Hertford Street - ace cute
The Newman Arms, Fitzrovia
The Lamb & Flag, Mayfair
Sun and 13 Cantons, Soho
Dog And Duck connected Frith Street, Soho
The French House, Soho
Coach and Horses (Greek St). Soho
Ship & Shovel connected Craven Passage, disconnected Embankment
The Crown & Two Chairmen connected Dean Street, Soho
Nellie Dean connected Dean Street, Soho
The Toucan, Carlisle Street successful Soho - truthful tiny that you person to basal extracurricular but inactive an institution
Bradleys Spanish Bar, Hanway Street adjacent Oxford Street
Blue Post, Berwick Street, Soho - you tin instrumentality your ain luncheon in
The Eagle successful Farringdon, chill gastro pub
Lore Of The Land to this, Fitzrovia - owned by Guy Ritchie

Outside of cardinal London:

The George, Borough SE1
Royal Oak, Columbia Road, East London
Cutty Sark Greenwich, South East London
The Royal Oak, Tabard St, SE1
The Prospect of Whitby, Wapping, East London
The Lord Clyde, Borough, SE1
Dog and Bell (Deptford), South East London
Efra Tavern (Brixton), South West London
Skehan's successful Telegraph Hill, South East London
The Ivyhouse (London's archetypal assemblage pub) successful Nunhead, South East London
The Culpeper successful Aldgate, East London
The City Barge, Chiswick, West London
Windsor Castle successful Notting Hill, West London
The Sun successful Splendour, Notting Hill
The Albert, Princess road, Primrose Hill, West London
The Cow, Notting Hill, West London
The Spaniards Inn, Hampstead, North West London
The Parakeet Pub successful Kentish Town, North West London
The Lord Clyde successful Borough, SE1 - due aged man's pub
Golden Heart connected Hanbury St, Spitalfields, East London

The UK's busiest bid station is besides undergoing a multi-billion development.

And here's the archetypal look astatine the London skyscraper acceptable to beryllium 1 of the tallest successful Europe.

Illustration of a rooftop edifice successful London astatine dusk.

Illustration of 72 Upper Ground improvement successful London, featuring a rooftop plot and bureau buildings overlooking the Thames River.

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