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Solve the “last mile” public transport issue and I’m sure the issue of building on station car parks will be well on the way to being solved. That said, one person’s appropriate development is the next person’s monstrous development, not in keeping with its surroundings. Sadly, even TfL seems not to understand that commercial development needs to be integrated into what it is there for………to provide public transport.
Car Parks / Buildings
It would help if they covered over the whole of the car-park(s) with relatively low-rise flats, rather than building vast towers, inappropriate for the suburbs, over just part of the sites ….
That is exactly what has happened here & it’s an eyesore.
At least half the problem is completely inappropriate design, rather than building on-site, per se