Thursday 22 October 2015
News & features published on 22 October 2015
Resident-led housebuilding plan held up by funding wrangle
An innovative project to build new council-rent homes in Bermondsey has put its operations on hold amid claims that Southwark Council has failed to provide promised funding.
Attempted rape in Newington Causeway: police renew appeal
Detectives are appealing for help to trace a man they wish to speak to in connection with an attempted rape in Newington Causeway near Elephant & Castle.
Road safety initiative launched at Elephant & Castle
If you travelled through Elephant & Castle on Thursday morning you can't have failed to notice the heavy police presence.
Four violent robberies around Elephant & Walworth - police appeal
Detectives are investigating a string of violent daytime robberies of women around Elephant & Castle and Walworth during September.
Forum discussions active on 22 October 2015
Tweets on 22 October 2015
Work continues into the night at Elephant & Castle to turn the 99p store into Poundland for Saturday relaunch pic.twitter.com/EN1l2mNvTW
Thursday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2015-10-22
@coyleneil what's your view on it Neil?
SpotMonkey .@TfL #CS6 works on Blackfriars Rd @se1 have made junction so unsafe they've got wardens to ask ppl to follow signs. pic.twitter.com/yRiuLAGGPz
SaliBerisha1 @se1 Anyone mentioned poor waterpressure in Elephant&Castle? @thameswater say there's a leak just south of the roundabout
LambethArchives Close to Waterloo is @MorleyGallery head there at 6pm for free talk & tour of #WaterLambeth exhibition by Jon Newman, curator & archivist
Some aspects of #gardenbridge procurement "shouldn't have happened" and "action needs to be taken to address them" - TfL's Clive Walker
CarolinePidgeon Tough questions to TfL audit manager re garden bridge. Too many answers not clear and watering down of report language.
Under pressure from @Len_Duvall TfL audit boss Clive Walker confirms TfL procedures contravened in #gardenbridge procurement @LondonAssembly
Abellio has retained the contract to run the 344 bus route
jpmaytum Excellent news! @LeatherMktCBS funding to be resolved 'by the end of the month' ow.ly/TISHr Thanks to @markwilliams84
Jason_Cobb Good to see @VauxhallLabour debating bloody #GardenBridge at next CLP meeting.
Man from TfL not prepared to comment on propriety of Boris's early #gardenbridge meetings with Heatherwick @LondonAssembly
@KneadToWander It hasn't been unveiled yet london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5275
Watch LIVE webcast as @LondonAssembly members grill man from TfL about #GardenBridge procurement audit https://t.co/gtpaG2WrYt
PippaCrerar Today's top fact: architects behind Elephant & Castle shopping centre came 2nd in comp to build Sydney Opera House. What might've been...
KneadToWander There's a busker on the Thames in #London playing Christmas music. Help, @BetterBankside! Can we ban it in Bankside until at least Nov? :-)
Someone's now started a 'Save F***koffee' petition against "anally retentive and gormless" objectors ...
https://t.co/AqrMyuMpFt
Sir Nicholas Serota talks about the impact Tate Modern has had on Bankside: https://t.co/H5GW62xu1l
Just published - Resident-led housebuilding scheme @LeatherMktCBS held up by funding wrangle with Southwark Council goo.gl/fb/cbQlqB
Suspect TfL audit boss will get a hard time from @LondonAssembly re #gardenbridge procurement from 2pm.
RT @liz545: Police launch road safety initiative by, um, parking on the pavement. https://t.co/zqeYURZekp
10 per cent of Southwark Foodbank users are people in work, @coyleneil tells Commons committee: https://t.co/fhlGlVLKZx
Just published - Attempted rape in Newington Causeway: police renew appeal goo.gl/fb/QYgfSF
Just published - Road safety initiative launched at Elephant & Castle goo.gl/fb/TUqnbb
Just published - Four violent robberies around Elephant & Walworth - police appeal goo.gl/fb/9pySNa
standardnews The managers of F***offee in Bermondsey have been told to remove their 'offensive' sign bit.ly/1hWskQC pic.twitter.com/UNbfOJFkB3
@MrTimDunn An old sign. But there are plans to turn it into a post-modern installation as well.
£6m flat off Albert Embankment - with £14,000 of designer clothes thrown in: https://t.co/NOjxuAMmwl
RT @JeydaKubilay: Your new @Poundland store is opening 24.10.15 in #Elephant&Castle, with 1p going to @Macmillancancer for EVERY £1 spent! …
laurentphotog @se1 found nationwide contactless card on london road going towards e&c, handed in to barista & baker
#KidsCompany Southwark response- interesting pres by David Quirke-Thornton
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@Sthwarkscrutiny
A certain coffee shop in Bermondsey Street has been told to take its sign down https://t.co/AbjxElmk8O
Police road safety operation at Elephant & Castle this morning pic.twitter.com/i0Xi1jp4ou
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