Extinction Rebellion, the group set up to highlight government inaction on climate change, is holding a People’s Assembly in Greenwich on Saturday to discuss solutions to pollution and other issues with local people. The Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook will be among the speakers at the event, which takes place from 11am-6pm at the […]
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Silvertown Tunnel will cut local HGV traffic, TfL insists as protesters call figures ‘fiction’
Transport for London has insisted the controversial Silvertown Tunnel will cut HGV use on its approach roads by five per cent, after campaigners questioned Sadiq Khan’s transport boss’s assertion that neighbourhoods near the tunnel would see fewer lorries on their roads. Heidi Alexander, the deputy mayor for transport and the former MP for Lewisham East, […]
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Silvertown Tunnel: Greenwich Council’s leader shrugs off calls to oppose new road
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has played down growing pressure for the council to condemn London mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial Silvertown Tunnel. The council has consistently supported the new road between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, which is due to open in 2025, despite neighbouring Newham, Lewisham and Southwark opposing the crossing. Last week, […]
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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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Labour vote slumps in ward where councillors reneged on Silvertown Tunnel pledge
Voters have deserted the Labour party in the Greenwich Council ward where two councillors went back on their word and backed the controversial Silvertown Tunnel, internal figures from this weekend’s European election have suggested. Denise Scott McDonald, the council’s cabinet member for transport and air quality, and Stephen Brain aligned themselves with opposition to the […]
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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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Climate protesters stage Silvertown Tunnel protest at City Hall
Climate change activists have protested outside City Hall this morning as part of a new campaign against the planned Silvertown Tunnel. Protesters met London Assembly members Caroline Pidgeon (Lib Dem) and Caroline Russell (Green) and handed in a letter for mayor Sadiq Khan asking him to scrap the £1 billion project to build a new […]
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Can you help Invicta Primary School in Blackheath get a green wall?
Worries about the Silvertown Tunnel and pollution have placed a focus on Invicta Primary School in Blackheath – which lies close to the queues of the Blackwall Tunnel Southern Approach and is one of the 50 most polluted schools in London. However, the school is doing something about it – raising funds for a “green […]
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