Wednesday 11 March 2015
News & features published on 11 March 2015
TfL plans Festival Pier improvements
Transport for London has commissioned a feasibility study into how commercial opportunities could fund infrastructure improvements to Festival Pier on the South Bank.
Hughes: let public challenge councils which fail on affordable homes
Simon Hughes MP has called for the public to be given the right to challenge local authorities which grant planning permission for developments that fail to meet the council's own affordable housing quota.
Duke of York opens Traveltech Lab at More London
The Duke of York visited More London on Tuesday evening to open a new workspace for start-up businesses in the travel technology sector.
Guy's Hospital cancer centre 'topped out'
The new 14-storey £160 million cancer centre at Guy's Hospital has now reached its full height.
Albert Embankment's tallest tower approved by councillors
Lambeth's planning applications committee has approved unanimously plans for a 30-storey tower on Albert Embankment - but the associated affordable housing will be built 1.6 miles away on the edge of Battersea.
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Wednesday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2015-03-11
New novel about a window cleaner at the Shard http://t.co/QV6Jnsz6vb
WES1919 National Media Museum has unearthed some new photos of women welders working on Waterloo Bridge. Will try to get copies of them.
WES1919 Does anybody know or remember anyone who worked on Waterloo Bridge during WW2? If so get in touch.
Just published - TfL plans improvements to South Bank's Festival Pier goo.gl/fb/HlPkae
@mark__land 'planning performance agreements' mean that applicants can 'buy' a quicker decision & get more staff allocated to their case.
Luxury flats approved on SE1 riverside. Linked social rented homes will be more than half-way to Clapham Common. london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8127
Just published - @SimonHughes: let public challenge councils which fail to meet their affordable housing policies goo.gl/fb/sHJTec
Community group warns that integrity of planning process is at risk from developers paying for fast-track decisions london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8127
MPSCathedralSgt Simon and Mark just stopped and searched a male on #Blackfriars Rd #SE1 Found in possession of herbal cannabis
MPSCathedralSgt Officers from #Cathedrals SNT will be in #Borough Market tomorrow between 10 and 5. If your visiting say hello #SE1
"Farm girl became top emergency physician": obituary in @smh of Dr Beth Christian of St Thomas' Hospital A&E @gsttnhs http://t.co/YYu4daY5Uw
Kintore Way Children's Centre rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted: http://t.co/cvpQqEp1mP
Better late than ever ... just sent the March edition of our monthly what's on email bulletin: eepurl.com/bc0XzT
MigrantContribu Join our celebratory take over of Elephant & Castle shopping centre- Say #NOMORE to racism and xenophobia pic.twitter.com/dJLvHEebLw
lb_southwark Your community or business in Old Kent Road area? community forum on 26 March, 7pm at Pembroke House @Pembroke1885 ow.ly/KcIzU
StGeorgesCath Archbishop Oscar Romero, to whom there is a Memorial at St George's, will be beatified on 23 May in San Salvador. pic.twitter.com/9IYsd1Js1v
Jason_Cobb "No social rented homes on prime riverside site but 64 council homes for Lambeth more than a mile and a half away" london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8127
RT @TimeOutLondon: Bloomin’ Heck: there’s a field of free pickable posies on the South Bank today http://t.co/WauMibBwH6
Linden Homes holding 'cocktail evening' in West End to flog new Blackfriars Road flats pic.twitter.com/poqgli6Lj1
Bravo! Why Nicholas Hytner’s National Theatre deserves a standing ovatiogu.com/p/46fk3/stwdt by Michael Billington
RT @LambethCyclists: Free fabulous Lambeth Dr Bike checks, info +advice at #Waterloo Roundabout #SE1 this evening 4-7:30pm http://t.co/sbx6…
Find out about the Lambeth North Music Hall @LambethNorthMH at @HorseAndStables: http://t.co/eOjMrWIdEm
MPSCathedralSgt #Redman House - anyone see it being done or know who's tag it is call us on 07766443043
MPSCathedralSgt Afternoon #Southwark #Cathedrals bit unusual for the ward but this massive tag has appeared near Redman House #SE1 pic.twitter.com/54meMVfyEB
Just published - Guy's Hospital cancer centre 'topped out' goo.gl/fb/OUPlcC
Just published - Prince Andrew @TheDukeOfYork opens @traveltechlab at More London goo.gl/fb/6nyx7v
Shakespeare's Globe given seven days to avoid strike action https://t.co/lFrgGOsIRH via @TheStage
Statue of Basaveshwara installed on Albert Embankment http://t.co/HULOAjLOwJ http://t.co/0PEgtYhAps pic via @megaherbivore
@garethwyn70 Basaveshwara london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5275
Just published - Albert Embankment's tallest tower approved ... social housing 1.6 miles away near Battersea goo.gl/fb/OcGxXb
RT @news_va_en: Popular English Catholic Musician, Nick Gale, killed in Hit and Run Collision §RV http://t.co/XpImalSCwP
StGeorgesCath Please pray for Nick Gale former Director of Music at St George's Cathedral, who was tragically killed in an accident yesterday morning. RIP
KeltieLLP Wonder if the two guys who were flying a drone on London Bridge yesterday will be back today? @se1 @TeamLondonBdg pic.twitter.com/T91x0wrqga
Lord Palumbo hopes to attract the likes of Prince Harry to the rebuilt Ministry of Sound club in Borough Road @LondonLive
Lord Palumbo says he will be "forever grateful" to Boris Johnson for "saving" the Ministry of Sound from "dastardly" developers @LondonLive
DraperEstate Coming soon..... Draper Estate - The Musical! You heard it here first!!!
Ministry of Sound's Lord Palumbo of Southwark not exactly wholehearted in his backing of the Lib Dems on @LondonLive. (He's a Lib Dem peer.)
See how the South Bank, Bankside and London Bridge have changed over the last 30 years with this aerial footage: https://t.co/wexmzDNhBE
1983 - Michael Foot's dog goes canvassing for Labour on the Rockingham Estate: https://t.co/bS3G9UoW7o
1983 - @simonhughes and Roy Jenkins hold a by-election press conference in @simon_Thetanner in Long Lane: https://t.co/AZ7MvHIrSs
@michaellondonsf Yes. Lots of info here: http://t.co/5ljdNIZGh9
At 10am tune in to @LondonLive to see Lord Palumbo of Southwark tell @sandsstandard about plans to build a new Ministry of Sound club.
@michaellondonsf yes it is staying. It is the Michael Faraday memorial.
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