Plans for 619 new homes north of Kidbrooke station are to go ahead after London’s deputy mayor for planning, reversed Greenwich councillors’ rejection of the scheme. The Kidbrooke Station Square scheme, which is being promoted by Transport for London and the housing association Notting Hill Genesis, was thrown out by Greenwich Council’s main planning committee […]
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Give Londoners a break from City Airport flight noise, mayor demands
Sadiq Khan warned London City Airport that “unfettered growth is not an option” as he attacked its plans for expansion. The mayor of London said residents must have a break from flight noise, and the airport should take its air pollution and environmental responsibilities more seriously. The airport, in the Royal Docks, wants more people […]
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Londoners asked to withhold council tax to stop Silvertown Tunnel
Londoners are being asked to withhold part of their council tax in protest at Sadiq Khan’s plans to continue building the Silvertown Tunnel. Protesters from Extinction Rebellion have gathered outside City Hall this evening to launch the protest, which asking Londoners to not pay 22% of one month’s council tax – the portion that goes […]
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Anger at five-year wait for outer London bus improvements
A review of outer London buses will take five years to complete, prompting outrage from politicians across the party divide. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has now been accused of a “broken promise” for failing to prioritise transport in the outer boroughs. With bus use falling across the capital, Transport for London (TfL) recently reviewed central […]
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Silvertown Tunnel slips to 2025 as TfL names the company to run it
Transport for London has confirmed that the Silvertown Tunnel now will not open until 2025 after naming the consortium that will build and operate the new road, which will run between Greenwich Peninsula and Royal Docks. Originally due to open in 2023, then 2024, the £1bn project – which many local residents fear will increase […]
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Mayor Sadiq Khan objects to ‘polluting’ Belvedere incinerator scheme
Sadiq Khan has thrown his weight behind a campaign to stop a controversial incinerator being built next to a nature reserve in Belvedere. The Mayor of London has urged the government to pull the plug on Cory Riverside Energy’s proposed waste incinerator at their site near to Crossness Nature Reserve. Bexley councillors and wildlife enthusiasts […]
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Silvertown Tunnel project could be another Garden Bridge, Assembly member warns
The Silvertown Tunnel risks becoming a fiasco like Boris Johnson’s collapsed Garden Bridge project, a London Assembly member has warned Sadiq Khan. Caroline Pidgeon, a Liberal Democrat, has pressed the mayor to halt work on the new road between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, telling him in a letter that she cannot understand why […]
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Greenwich Labour councillors criticise Sadiq Khan over ‘contradictory’ bus cuts
Greenwich Labour councillors criticised their own London mayor last night over cuts to south-east London’s bus services – with a senior councillor admitting getting into “a bit of trouble” for campaigning against the shortening of the key 53 routes. Transport cabinet member Denise Scott-McDonald said that the mayor’s office objected to Greenwich launching a joint […]
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