Protesters have jet-washed an anti-Silvertown Tunnel slogan onto a Thames embankment facing the Greenwich Peninsula – and are promising more protests as construction steps up. Activists in hi-viz jackets clambered onto the foreshore close to Peruvian Wharf in Silvertown at low tide to write “Stop the tunnel” on the river wall. Construction work began earlier […]
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Riverside brewery and taproom to come to Greenwich Peninsula’s Morden Wharf
One of London’s best-known craft breweries has signed up to move into the 1,500-home Morden Wharf development next to the Blackwall Tunnel. Brew By Numbers will open a taproom and brewery in a refurbished warehouse on the site of an old pub, The Sea Witch, which was destroyed in the Second World War. A planning […]
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Silvertown Tunnel pollution monitoring undecided despite work having started, Khan admits
Levels of air quality monitoring for the Silvertown Tunnel have not been decided – even though work is already well under way on the £2billion new toll road under the Thames. London mayor Sadiq Khan took four months to answer an assembly member’s question on how Transport for London will watch levels of pollution after […]
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TfL should ‘rebuild trust’ with locals over Silvertown Tunnel, officials told
Transport for London needs to repair relations with local people about its £2 billion Silvertown Tunnel project, senior figures in charge of the project have been told after a review of the scheme suggested they make clear just how the road project will get Londoners out of their cars. Work has already begun on the […]
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Greenwich’s B&Q could go in plan for 1,400 homes on Ikea car park
Greenwich’s B&Q store could be replaced by a major new housing development on the site of the current Ikea store car park. Developer London Square has opened a consultation into its plans for the Millennium Retail Park, which would see Ikea and the Odeon cinema remain, but the 20-year-old DIY warehouse disappear. Up to 1,400 […]
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Construction work begins on Sadiq Khan’s Silvertown Tunnel
Piling work has begun on the Silvertown Tunnel, nine years after plans for the £2 billion road link between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks were first mooted by Transport for London. Work has begun on the construction of the launch chamber for the tunnelling machine that will burrow under the Thames from Silvertown […]
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Greenwich Millennium Village’s final phase approved despite NHS funding worries
Greenwich councillors backed the last major phase of Greenwich Millennium Village almost without question last night – despite worries from local GPs that health services would struggle to cope with the new residents. Plans to build 489 homes, shops and work space on two adjoining parcels of land facing Bugsby’s Way were approved unanimously in […]
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MDM Props: How Greenwich’s secret art factory is getting through the pandemic
You wouldn’t know it from the outside, but stunning art installations and huge props for stage shows start life in a warehouse by the Blackwall Tunnel. NIKKI SPENCER got a rare peek behind the scenes at MDM Props at Morden Wharf, Greenwich – and found out how it’s coped with a pandemic that has badly […]
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