The BusinessForBakerloo campaign is the business voice calling for the full Bakerloo Line Upgrade and Extension (BLUE). We are made up of businesses with an interest in transport, property and infrastructure and welcome support from all sectors of the business community.
The Bakerloo Line Upgrade and Extension will deliver significant benefits for London and the UK more widely:
Transforming commuter capacity
27 trains per hour, 14 new London Underground stations and capacity for 65,000 additional trips in each direction.
Driving economic growth
An estimated 107,000 new homes and 150,000 jobs will be delivered along the whole route, bringing in £1.5bn in Gross Value Added (GVA) each year.
Wider benefits for the country
Benefits spread far beyond London as the supply chains are located outside the capital. For instance, the new trains would be made in Goole in Yorkshire, providing well-paid jobs and creating opportunities.
Seb Dance
Deputy Mayor for Transport
“There is a wall ready to be knocked down as and when the time comes, but it is up to us to make sure that time is not another one hundred years from now.”
Cllr Kieron Willams
Leader, Southwark Council
“This is not just about prosperity in Southwark, or Lewisham, or Brent, or Westminster, but prosperity for the whole country."
Alex Williams
Chief Customer & Strategy Officer, Transport for London
“We can see the target from the Government is 80,000 new homes in London – you aren’t going to get anywhere near that unless you invest in infrastructure, and this is a great project for that.”
Richard Palmer
Development Director, Delancey
“Businesses of all shapes and sizes, from Harrow to Hayes, will benefit from the BLUE and it will turn the Bakerloo into a world class tube once more.”
Cllr Mili Patel
Deputy Leader, Brent Council
“We in Brent are proud to join the fight for the Bakerloo, with the extension arm of the project holding particular importance to us and our residents.”
Chris Hogwood
Managing Director, Landsec
“We have a Labour chancellor who wants growth, a Labour mayor who wants growth, we have the Boroughs who want growth, we have businesses like mine that are desperate for growth and keen to invest in the capital even more and this is the thing that unlocks that sort of investment.”
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Our Patrons
Chris Hogwood
Managing Director, Corporate Affairs & Sustainability - Landsec
Chris Hogwood leads Landsec’s Corporate Affairs and Sustainability teams, having joined the business in 2020 following over a decade at leading corporate communications agencies and in London local government.
Landsec, one of the UK’s largest real estate businesses, is a major investor in the capital. This includes the iconic Picadilly Lights on the existing Bakerloo line. Elsewhere, it has operated Lewisham Shopping Centre for two decades, where it is also planning a £1bn investment to shape a new centre for Lewisham.
As a proud southeast Londoner himself, Chris has long championed an upgrade to the Bakerloo and is a founding member of the BusinessForBakerloo campaign.
Richard Palmer
Development Director - Delancey
Richard Palmer is a Development Director at Delancey, a UK real estate investment and asset management business. Over the past 8 years, Richard has led the redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle Town Centre which will deliver a new underground station, a new university campus building for the University of Arts, London, 1,366 new homes, 730 student beds and over 285,000sq.ft of retail, leisure, and commercial space. Richard also led the development aspects of Get Living’s acquisition of their 650-home scheme at Lewisham with both projects literally book ending the first phase of the proposed Bakerloo Line Extension.
For this reason and having created the new Integrated Ticket Hall for the Bakerloo extension at Elephant & Castle, Richard is passionate to see the extension come forward and unlock the many thousands of new homes and jobs that the investment will deliver.
Richard has been vocal about the need for the Bakerloo Line Upgrade and Extension and is a founding member of the BusinessForBakerloo campaign.
Our Supporters
Our Work
Southeast London needs a more ambitious transport solution
BusinessForBakerloo is pleased to see Transport for London recognise that southeast London is in need of better connectivity to the rest of the city, and we welcome the steps it took last Friday to address this with the Bakerloop bus service consultation.
Let's turn a century of talk about extending the Bakerloo line into action
There’s many a vital UK infrastructure project which has faced barriers to delivery, be that due to cost, planning, capacity to build, or a combination of all of the above. There are only a few, however, who can say their importance has been discussed for more than a century.
Spread the word
BusinessForBakerloo represents the entire business community in London.
We welcome the support of businesses of all shapes and sizes from Neasden to New Cross Gate, Harrow to Hayes. Whether you’re a national organisation or a shop on the Old Kent Road, sign up, get involved, and make your voice heard.
Together, we can get a Bakerloo Line Upgrade and Extension that delivers the most for London’s businesses.
Show your support by backing our campaign and help spread the message on social media and online by using the hashtags:
#BusinessforBakerloo
#BackTheBakerloo