Colindale - can you feel the rhythm? Or do you need someone to take your pulse?

These figures are taken from Barnet council's "State of the Borough report":

Already London’s most populous borough, with 349,800 residents in 2011 ...The Barnet population is projected to grow by 5.5 per cent over next five years – an increase of 19,400 people.

And they are all going to live in Colindale.*

Below are pictures of a few of the major building sites springing up around Colindale ward. It's all tremendously exciting, I can tell you. My questions are what will the newcomers do in the area of a weekend - I'm at a loss - and how am I going to get a seat on the tube in future?

New Hendon Village, private flats for sale, built on the former Grahame Park open space

New Hendon Village, private flats for sale, built on the former Grahame Park open space

What's in the regeneration for the tenants of Grahame Park?

Demolition of Grahame Park continues apace...

...to make way for more of New Hendon Village. In the background you can also see the massive development at Beaufort Park

Colindale tube station is in there somewhere

Colindale: yes, it fair pulsates; development on Colindale Avenue on the old Colindale Hospital site

Another Fairview development close to the Pulse. This one has rhythm...

* This is a slight exaggeration, for comic effect, but only slight. These are the figures: Colindale (+10,900), Golders Green (+7,300), Mill Hill (+2,000) and West Hendon (+1,900).