A Labour MP has mocked anti-Silvertown Tunnel campaigners as being “all white” after they tried to draw attention to a website’s coverage of its impact on communities in east London. Neil Coyle, the MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, criticised the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition when the group tweeted a link to an article […]
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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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Sadiq Khan accused of ignoring Silvertown Tunnel’s impact on air quality
Sadiq Khan has been accused of “blatantly ignoring his own contribution” to worsening air quality in parts of London by campaigners against his Silvertown Tunnel project. It comes following new analysis from City Hall that revealed 98 per cent of schools in London are in areas that exceed World Health Organisation limits for PM2.5 pollution, […]
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Lewisham Council could install extra Silvertown Tunnel pollution monitoring
Lewisham Council is considering installing more pollution monitors on streets threatened by Silvertown Tunnel traffic. The news comes as London Labour party representatives rebuked their mayor, Sadiq Khan, to call for the controversial £2 billion toll road between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks to be scrapped. Transport for London, which is chaired by […]
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Plans for Silvertown Tunnel’s Greenwich entrance are revealed
Detailed designs for the southern entrance to the Silvertown Tunnel have been submitted to planners, with its architects promising it will be a “landmark for the area”. Work is already under way on the controversial road link between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, with tunnelling due to begin on the north bank of the […]
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A vote for me was a vote for Silvertown Tunnel, says Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan’s re-election was an endorsement of the Silvertown Tunnel by Londoners, the mayor insisted yesterday after saying that the public had 10 opportunities to have their say on the controversial road scheme between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks. The mayor spoke as another London Assembly member put pressure on him to pause the […]
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Lead from petrol still in London’s air decades after it was banned
Lead from petrol remains in London’s air 23 years after it was banned, researchers from Imperial College have found. Tetraethyl lead was added to petrol to improve cars’ performance, but it was phased out in the 1980s and 1990s after studies found that it could cause brain damage in children – with those living near […]
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Campaigners criticise Silvertown Tunnel builders’ school ‘propaganda’
Campaigners against the Silvertown Tunnel have accused the company building the new road of feeding children with “propaganda” after it gave assemblies on the topic at local schools. Riverlinx, the private-sector consortium which is building the new road between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, has been holding sessions with schoolchildren to tell them about […]
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