Railway lines through Hither Green will be closed for nine days from 25 July to allow Network Rail to finish work on a new signalling system that has been delayed because of the coronavirus. Engineers had hoped to finish work replacing the old 1970s signalling system through the station over Easter, but because of social […]
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Government fund to remove cladding ‘will lead to lottery’, campaigners warn
Vital funding announced by the Government today to replace flammable lining wrapped around more then 170 buildings will lead to a “cladding lottery”, an action group has warned. Nearly two years after 72 people died in a fire at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, 28 buildings in Greenwich borough still have combustible cladding. New Capital […]
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28 Greenwich borough buildings still covered in lethal cladding
More than two dozen buildings in Greenwich are still wrapped in dangerous cladding two years after the Grenfell fire tragedy. Hundreds of Greenwich residents continue to live in private homes lined with dangerous material blamed for the spread of the fatal blaze in North Kensington. The borough is thought to have one of the highest […]
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Lewisham bags a Bakerloo boost – but beware a backlash
It’s a relief to be able to write about some unalloyed good news – Transport for London is consulting on extending the Bakerloo Line to Lewisham, Catford and Hayes. Sure, the extension might be at least a decade and a half away, and plans for a Tube to Lewisham have been kicking around since the […]
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