Paddington Waterside, London

Paddington Waterside is a retail, commercial and residential redevelopment project in Paddington, in the City of Westminster, London. Covering 13 individual projects on the plot bounded by Praed Street, Westbourne Terrace and the A40 Westway, it has been destribed as the biggest redevelopment scheme in Central London since the Second World War.

Located right at the heart of Paddington Waterside is the Paddington Basin, a canal basin that was used in the 19th century for the tranportation of goods to Central London. By the late 20th century, the warehouses around the basin have become redundant. There was no public access tothe canal until 1987.

Since the 1980s, the area has been redeveloped at PaddingtonCentral, an mixed-use development that includes offices, apartments and shops. One of the features in the area is the Rolling Bridge (more correctly the "Curling Bridge"), a bridge that curls upwards over the canal, to allow traffic through.

Among shoppers, the place to go is PaddingtonCentral Shopping Centre, the largest covered shopping centre in Central London. Its anchor tenants is a Sainsbury store. There is an eight-screen cinema at the mall along with a number of fashion labels. Also within the Paddington Waterside development is Marks & Spencer department store, located at Waterhouse, at the Paddington Basin.

How to reach Paddington Waterside

Take the Hammersmith & City Line or the Circle Line to the Paddington Tube Station at Bishop's Bridge Road, and walk from there. You can also take Bakerloo Line, Circle Line and District Line to the Paddington Tube Station, exiting to Praed Street, but the distance is slightly farther.

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