Monday 18 May 2015
News & features published on 18 May 2015
Great Suffolk Street to host London's first Open Streets event
After a couple of false starts last year, Southwark will this month host London's first Open Streets event.
Forum discussions active on 18 May 2015
Tweets on 18 May 2015
Monday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2015-05-18
RT @Jason_Cobb: @Wolmar4London sums up @tcoslondon #GardenBridge https://t.co/wFBRqSwHgE via @audioBoom
RT @Jason_Cobb: .@natalieben sums up @tcoslondon #GardenBridge https://t.co/hUmvHaIAV8 via @audioBoom
RT @Jason_Cobb: .@carolinepidgeon sums up @tcoslondon #GardenBridge https://t.co/lYtzZ120Be via @audioBoom
Here's a Storify of our tweets from the @TCOSLondon #GardenBridge meeting this evening https://t.co/Rl3xxHns9i
Dickens_Estate Dickens Festival 15 Aug on the Dickens Estate #Bermondsey Riverside pic.twitter.com/GvdkDD4rJv
Elephant & Castle subway mural picture of the day pic.twitter.com/2g5Y6GB5U1
Whether you agree with them or not, @TCOSLondon have done amazing job assembling v broad anti #GardenBridge coalition & huge public interest
Don't think there has been such a turnout for a meeting about any development controversy in Waterloo for many years. #gardenbridge
And that's it from the #gardenbridge meeting
Residents of the Coin Street housing co-operatives are meeting at London Nautical School next week re #gardenbridge
Michael Ball urging people to lobby their MP re #gardenbridge - not just a local issue as £30m is coming from HM Treasury
Lambeth's @P_McGlone will take decision tomorrow on whether to start negotiations with #GardenBridge & @CoinStreet re South Bank land
#GardenBridge opponents at meeting being urged to text Lambeth's cllr @P_McGlone urging him not to agree lease for South Bank land
Lambeth Council could stop #GardenBridge by not giving lease to the bridge trust for South Bank land
Land ownership of South Bank side of #GardenBridge being explained. See our story here about Lambeth Council role: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8240
The #GardenBridge judicial review will be heard at High Court on 10 and 11 June, Michael Ball announces
Campaign against #gardenbridge: "This is one we can win, and we have to win" says @natalieben (Green leader)
South Bank has "great history" of resisting developers says @natalieben - urges people to fight: "The case is just so strong" #gardenbridge
"If I get the chance of being mayor, I will stop #gardenbridge instantly" says @wolmarforlondon (running for Lab mayoral nomination)
#gardenbridge Christian Wolmar @wolmarforlondon reminds audience that Heatherwick also designed the Boris bus - also "wasteful" project
Over 30 mature trees will be felled to make way for #gardenbridge, @CarolinePidgeon reminds the audience
RT @darryl1974: Final 15 mins of streaming from anti- #GardenBridge meeting at http://t.co/TrvZ9IpwED
Criticism from the floor of @CoinStreet Community Builders support for #gardenbridge
Chair of Lambeth parks forum points out the savage cuts to borough's open space budget under #lambethcoop proposals #gardenbridge
longitude0 @se1 @CarolinePidgeon On p 214 of June "Country Living" magazine, Joanna Lumley refers to it as "my Garden Bridge project" ...
There's been an "obscene lack of scrutiny" of #gardenbridge plans says @isaby of @the_tpa
Now @isaby of @the_tpa says #gardenbridge will be a "grotesque white elephant"
Boris said that #GardenBridge opponents have "Taliban-like hatred of objects of beauty" - quoted by @CarolinePidgeon
Here's Joanna Lumley's handwritten note to Boris Johnson just mentioned by @CarolinePidgeon at #GardenBridge meeting: http://t.co/mpWUphLeDV
#GardenBridge @CarolinePidgeon says she has "real reservations" about the selection process which chose Heatherwick to design bridge
South Bank resident says that the noise from the #gardenbridge borehole rig in the Thames is already unbearable pic.twitter.com/AzrMz8yOA7
Bridge designer Cezary Bednarski : #gardenbridge "fails on every single count" - "ungainly" + not functional
Bridge engineer says that #GardenBridge Trust claim that they HAVE to start before the #supersewer is built is bogus
#gardenbridge "a private garden platform pretending to be public bridge" says expert bridge engineer
@DamianWild To be fair was billed as an anti bridge meeting, not a debate on the pros and cons
CarolinePidgeon Superb to see so many people at the community meeting against the Garden Bridge inc @mariaadderley @Juvelad pic.twitter.com/btqZbKwXFm
Green leader @natalieben on #GardenBridge: "This is going to be a really important battle on a huge scale about the future of London"
Phil Marson of Inner London Ramblers - "The Ramblers Association in London is against this bridge" - will spoil @TheThamesPath & views
raheli01 @TCOSLondon Iroko housing co-op sharing their views about the Garden Bridge pic.twitter.com/D3Pz3yt6I4
Andrew Richardson says the #GardenBridge is a shopfront to sell the concept to other cities around the world
@OneEyeGrey Crowdfunder for legal challenge is at everyclick.com/tcos
Gavin Stamp: Heatherwick's #gardenbridge has "banal and ponderous" design
#gardenbridge Writer Gavin Stamp: "the whole point about the Thames is that it's a river, not a garden"
WHurst1 Packed meeting on #gardenbridge tonight in Waterloo. Cross party condemnation of scheme pic.twitter.com/aaUpaznQRa
#GardenBridge "will not work for anybody other than those who were at the dinner party where it was dreamed up" says @ValShawcross
"This is very much a Boris project" says @ValShawcross - doesn't know any TfL officers who are keen on it.
#GardenBridge will spoil "gorgeous ... sweeping vista" of the Thames says @ValShawcross
#gardenbridge "proposal has not come from any strategic thinking" says @ValShawcross - much more sense to put bridge further east or west
South Bank already "like Oxford Street" at peak times says @ValShawcross - projected post #GardenBridge increase "completely unacceptable"
South Bank residents most affected by #GardenBridge are part "real residential community with longstanding links" says @ValShawcross
Next @ValShawcross explains she submitted 6-page objection to #GardenBridge planning application - says she tries to take a measured view
Now Cllr @jenwrenmosley says #gardenbridge crowds will make it like New Year's Eve every day
Cllr @jenwrenmosley says Bishop's ward used to have lowest crime in Lambeth - now it's the highest due to tourism boom
Resident @claresolomon73 worried that #GardenBridge trust isn't democratically accountable despite huge public funds
Clare Solomon - @OxoTowerWharf resident - says it's a disgrace to put £60m public money to#GardenBridgee when hundreds of TfL jobs being cut
Gillian Melling: "I feel so strongly that river is for all Londoners" - views, space etc - "gaudy" #gardenbridge is embarrassing to London
Local resident Gillian Melling says South Bank already "really unpleasant" at times due to overcrowding - #GardenBridge will make it worse
#GardenBridge - "public money = public spaces, that's what we should be saying" says @natalieben
#GardenBridge amounts to "privatisation" of the River Thames says @natalieben
Applause for @natalieben as she raises the privatisation of public spaces - #GardenBridge patrolled by wardens enforcing no-picnic rule
Green leader @natalieben: #GardenBridge is "very literal form of greenwash"; supposed environmental benefits "don't stack up"
Richard_001 In Waterloo discussing @TheGardenBridge with @christianwolmar @ValShawcross @natalieben @TCOSLondon pic.twitter.com/aJgCAlec3p
Now guerrilla gardener @Richard_001 says he is "dead against" the #GardenBridge - will put too much pressure on TfL
RT @darryl1974: If you want to hear the anti- #GardenBridge meeting, I'm streaming audio at http://t.co/TrvZ9IpwED
#GardenBridge will be as crowded every day as the Chelsea Flower Show, warns Hugh Johnson
Hugh Johnson: "on a bridge in the middle of the river the horticultural possibilities are ... limited" #gardenbridge
Hugh Johnson @littlestjames of Metropolitan Public Garden Association - #GardenBridge - it's not a bridge and not a garden either
Michael Ball shows pics of the grass and trees on South Bank that will be removed for #GardenBridge
Instead of £30m to#GardenBridgee TfL should give £30k each to lots of small scale greening projects in London streets say@wolmarforlondonon
The #GardenBridge business plan is a "dishonest document" written to meet pre-set agenda, @wolmarforlondon tells meeting
#gardenbridge "doesn't help London become a better connected city" says @wolmarforlondon - it's a "vanity project"
Now @wolmarforlondon: #GardenBridge - "This is not a bridge - it is a garden plonked in the middle of a river"
Man from CTC London says that #GardenBridge is waste of time - footfall will be so high that garden will be in the way
darryl1974 Live audio from anti-#GardenBridge meeting at St John's, Waterloo mixlr.com/darryl1974
#GardenBridge @branchenergy of @StopKillingCycl echoes the concerns that so much public money is being spent on river crossing w no cycling
Now hearing from @annkenrick - chair of @london_cycling Campaign - extremely concerned that no provision for cycling on #GardenBridge
Full house for @TCOSLondon #GardenBridge meeting pic.twitter.com/8pocl4v3fW
RT @darryl1974: Already very busy at #GardenBridge protest meeting at Waterloo. http://t.co/yKEUcXo7oa
Jason_Cobb Decent turn out for @TCOSLondon #GardenBridge meeting pic.twitter.com/L5cbV3hEJX
#GardenBridge proposal also discussed in Joanna Lumley's 2004 autobiography
Michael Ball is explaining that #GardenBridge proposal goes back to 1998 when J Lumley proposed Diana memorial bridge.
At least 200 people at #GardenBridge public meeting.
Chaired by Tim Wood.
Panel at anti #GardenBridge meeting includes Green leader @natalieben, Labour's @ValShawcross @wolmarforlondon and Lib Dem @CarolinePidgeon
Big turnout of people unhappy about the Garden Bridge at @TCOSLondon meeting in @stjohnswaterloo pic.twitter.com/hO8iFq9n3M
Queue to get in to the @TCOSLondon anti Garden Bridge public meeting at @stjohnswaterloo pic.twitter.com/cOTy30LA9p
Spring sunshine in Roupell Street pic.twitter.com/5gz5UKknA7
Aerial footage of County Hall, South Bank & Westminster in 1982: https://t.co/X9f1WMccR9
Tour guides picket Shakespeare’s Globe in first London theatre strike since 1977 https://t.co/ngq1mOLK2R via @thestage
Just published - Five hours of car-free fun in Great Suffolk Street with @OpenStreetsLDN goo.gl/fb/ocpzZ5
OXO lettering at @OxoTowerWharf will be replaced with LOL tomorrow for @jennyeclair's #LOLgig in aid of @macmillancancer @npowerhq
RT @wolmarforlondon: Delighted to be on the panel at anti-Garden Bridge event at St John's Church, Waterloo Road tonight.An outrageous way …
tuppenwaterloo Stop the Garden Bridge meeting tonight 7pm pic.twitter.com/0W2SQAojWe
RT @rosannadownes: Impressive line up for tonight's public meeting on the garden bridge, including @london_cycling chair @annkenrick: http:…
RT @ThamesBaths: .@Kickstarter campaign finishes 22/05. Every £1 helps us, to help LDN towards floating #lido. https://t.co/Es9C7AwKTs http…
RT @SimplyMrPerfect: @StolenRide black Apollo Highway, w silver pannier frame. Stolen Webber St SE1 night of 17/5. Info most appreciated ht…
Four sculptures of horses proposed for Thames foreshore at Albert Embankment by @TotallyThames http://t.co/2DnWL5W8LB
Garden Bridge access should be charged via Oyster card system argues Paul Finch: http://t.co/B7H6XIyfsF
Garden Bridge being "pushed through with a combination of bullying and schmooze" says @rowanmoore: http://t.co/B7H6XIyfsF
What @boroughmarket looked like 15 years ago in the early days of the weekend retail market pic.twitter.com/zPL15BHlZM
Win a family ticket to Adventures in Wonderland @AliceUnderLDN in The Vaults at Waterloo: http://t.co/BmOxLpYf6c
TfLTrafficNews London Bridge - Lane one northbound blocked by a vehicle.
KenningtonPOB What progress is being made with the Cycle Hub at Waterloo, announced in 2009 and 2012? #LambethQuestionTime london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5947
stuartensor Filming a #floatinghouse on the Thames for @Airbnb_uk pic.twitter.com/h7M2WwpN8M
StarEventsLtd Has anybody else spotted the #FloatingHouse on the Thames? @StarEventsLtd has! pic.twitter.com/sNn7OSUsAM
curtisprofits Floating house on the Thames, courtesy of @Airbnb_uk. That's one way to reduce the electricity bill. #FloatingHouse pic.twitter.com/ysheNt2Q6q
chazwut The #floatinghouse just went past my window. Cue office pandemonium. pic.twitter.com/Y1u5EnN8rc
KeltieLLP Just another normal day on the Thames! Guess this counts as a flood risk area? #FloatingHouse @se1 pic.twitter.com/WBRETeGRSY
RT @peterwalker99: Meeting tonight opposing Garden Bridge includes such disparate types as Labour, @london_cycling & @the_tpa http://t.co/t…
RT @isaby: I'm on a cross-party panel at St Johns Waterloo tonight opposing the proposed Garden Bridge. See here for details: http://t.co/9…
Strong lineup of guests/speakers for tonight's anti Garden Bridge public meeting organised by @TCOSLondon: http://t.co/Z0eviyUhp4
Tour guides at Shakespeare's Globe are on strike today bectu.org.uk/news/2395
[Job vacancy] Volunteering and Events Coordinator, Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1: http://t.co/DimD09yFN1
ICYMI - last night's James Bond filming on the Thames - london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8269
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