Campaigners against the Silvertown Tunnel have been told they cannot address Greenwich Council’s cabinet tomorrow evening – just days after a panel of councillors recommended that the town hall call for the new road to be put on hold. The Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition had been hoping to address a full council meeting tomorrow, […]
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Labour MP ridicules ‘all white’ anti-Silvertown Tunnel campaigners
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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More protests threatened as anti-Silvertown Tunnel slogan jet-washed onto embankment
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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Sadiq Khan criticised over Silvertown Tunnel after coroner rules on air pollution death
London mayor Sadiq Khan has been criticised for his plans to build the Silvertown Tunnel after a coroner ruled that air pollution was a cause of death of Ella Kissi-Debrah, the nine-year-old girl who suffered a fatal asthma attack in 2013. Ella lived off the South Circular Road on the border of Catford and Hither […]
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Stop Silvertown Tunnel, Erith & Thamesmead MP Oppong-Asare tells mayor
The MP for Erith & Thamesmead has added her voice to the campaign against the Silvertown Tunnel, writing to Sadiq Khan asking him to stop and review the controversial project. Abena Oppong-Asare said the £2 billion road tunnel between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, which will include a lane for HGVs, does not make […]
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Transport author Christian Wolmar to speak at Silvertown Tunnel meeting
One of Britain’s leading transport writers, Christian Wolmar, will be addressing a public meeting about the Silvertown Tunnel in Woolwich on Thursday. The event aims to discuss the impact of the tunnel, which will link Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, on Woolwich and the wider area, in light of Greenwich Council’s declaration of a […]
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Schoolchildren plead with Sadiq Khan to scrap Silvertown Tunnel
Schoolchildren from Kidbrooke have pleaded for the Silvertown Tunnel to be scrapped, as protesters hit City Hall for a second time this morning. Pupils and teachers from the Thomas Tallis school joined environmental campaigners from Extinction Rebellion and the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition to pressure London mayor Sadiq Khan to backtrack on the controversial […]
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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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