853 exclusive: An 18-metre high Damien Hirst artwork will be unveiled next to the London Cable Car if Greenwich planners give it the go-ahead. The giant, headless Demon with Bowl was first exhibited in Venice five years ago, but is set to come to the Greenwich Peninsula courtesy of the developer Knight Dragon, which is […]
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Stop building schools in air pollution hotspots, London Assembly told
New schools and affordable housing targeted at young families should not be built in areas of London that are “known pollution hotspots”, the London Assembly has been told. Speaking at a meeting of the assembly’s environment committee on Tuesday, Imperial College London’s Dr Ian Mudway, an expert on air quality, warned that the long-term health […]
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Storm Eunice: High winds tear roof at the O2 but no structural damage
Storm Eunice tore strips off the roof of the O2 this afternoon, but there is no structural damage to the former Millennium Dome, fire chiefs have confirmed. About 1,000 people were evacuated from the building after the Greenwich Peninsula was battered by gusts of up to 87mph. Photos and video showing roof panels in shreds […]
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TfL’s 2022 fare rises: Greenwich cable car tickets soar 25 per cent while bus users pay 10p more
Users of the London Cable Car from Greenwich Peninsula will be hit with fare hikes of up to 25 per cent next month as Transport for London struggles to balance its books. Bus passengers will pay 10p more per trip from March 1 – a 6.5 per cent increase to £1.65 – as part of […]
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Rooftop statue could appear on Greenwich’s Morden Wharf – but who is the ‘everyman docker’?
A huge statue of a flat cap-wearing “everyman docker” could appear on top of a warehouse at Morden Wharf in Greenwich, where a developer plans to build towers of up to 36 storeys high. U+I, the company behind the scheme next to the Blackwall Tunnel, has denied the “worker” is based on one of the […]
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Route 188 to North Greenwich will cope with fewer buses, TfL insists
Transport for London has insisted that one of the key routes serving North Greenwich station will be able to cope when it has its frequency cut next weekend. Route 188, which runs from North Greenwich to Russell Square via Greenwich, Deptford and Bermondsey, will be cut back to six buses an hour – every ten […]
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Greenwich among the boroughs with most unsafe tower blocks
Greenwich is among the London boroughs worst affected by the capital’s building safety crisis, with just two boroughs having more unsafe tower blocks. The London Fire Brigade revealed last month that there were more than 1,000 buildings in the capital which require residents to evacuate in the event of a fire rather than stay put […]
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Labour leader Starmer ‘not familiar’ with Silvertown Tunnel – despite being London MP
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he is “not familiar” with the arguments over the controversial Silvertown Tunnel – even though the project is being championed by his party’s London mayor. Tunnel opponents were baffled by Starmer’s reluctance to discuss the project in an interview with ITV News – especially as the Labour leader […]
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