Wednesday 7 September 2016
News & features published on 7 September 2016
Lambeth cabinet WON'T make final Garden Bridge decision after all
Last week we reported that a final decision on whether to allow the Garden Bridge to use Lambeth Council-owned land on the South Bank would be made by councillors in November.
London Fire Brigade Museum: pop-up museum plans approved
Plans to turn a disused fire brigade workshop just off Albert Embankment into a pop-up museum and event space have been approved by Lambeth councillors.
New building for Lambeth Palace Library opposite St Thomas'
Plans for a new home for the historic collections of the Church of England - to be built in the gardens of Lambeth Palace - have been revealed by the Church Commissioners.
Forum discussions active on 7 September 2016
Tweets on 7 September 2016
RT @KateHoeyMP: What an ugly building in one of the most historic parts of London #bad design https://t.co/i4Nq30yPZc
Wednesday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2016-09-07
olliepix Bankside Bubbles and Floating Dreams @TotallyThames Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. flic.kr/p/L36HPm
Naturally Thomas Heatherwick is on #Progress1000 list #gardenbridge pic.twitter.com/W8djmuynXM
Lambeth council leader @cllrpeck included in Standard #Progress1000 list - citing her support for #gardenbridge pic.twitter.com/56VLEqzSHv
RT @shellie_beee: My walk from work to my hotel tonight. #London #Southwark #sunset #riverthames #beautiful @… https://t.co/QoKQDQdv1O
davidmungall View from my flat tonight #bermondseystreet @se1 @BermondseySt pic.twitter.com/R2BofMi4fZ
TfLBusAlerts Buses serving Borough High Street are diverted southbound due to a broken down bus blocking the road at London Bridge
StandardEnts The gorgeous Joanna Lumley has just arrived at the #Progress1000 party... pic.twitter.com/iUgHDgRZHB
£1.7m house for sale in Roupell Street: https://t.co/jSFe9k1Uvh
@follyforlondon Have deleted that tweet - it was from last year’s event
Broken down bus on Borough High Street https://t.co/ZBtjDp5jq3
@BenRymer yes. We were first to report on the list of rules.
Dan Pearson Studio (cf #gardenbridge) is doing landscaping for new Lambeth Palace Library: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8890 pic.twitter.com/AWVBTwY4ft
estwebber One MP complains about over-resourcing of infrastructure in London
Kate Hoey says maybe the difference is they don't have a Joanna Lumley
If you were wondering about that Tory MP from Plymouth who kept mentioning hedgehogs in the #gardenbridge debate ... https://t.co/3t3V1dk9jq
estwebber Oliver Colvile keeps going with this, says he wants Garden Bridge to be "a hedgehog superhighway"
DianaJohnsonMP Commons Garden bridge debate is farcical! Minister says you will need to call ahead to use it if you are a group of ramblers? #wasting money
@Sthwarkscrutiny No webcast this time?
"The Government wishes it every success" - Andrew Jones’s final words i#gardenbridgege debate.
"I recognise and understand concerns raised" by Kate Hoey & others says transport minister Andrew Jones #gardenbridge
#gardenbridge "unique and exciting project" says minister - will showcase ambition, creativity and talent of UK
Minister’s remark on "no significant faults" re #gardenbridge procurement brings to mind this #yesminister scene: https://t.co/WWDRIODkEM
"No significant faults" found with #gardenbridge procurement says minister.
Minister says previous probes of #gardenbridge by @LondonAssembly show that it’s had "robust scrutiny" of its arrangements
#gardenbridge will be "a tranquil place which I hope will be used by residents in the area" - transport minister Andrew Jones MP.
#gardenbridge "open to all and no charge to use it" insists transport minister
Kate Hoey mentions the opposition to #gardenbridge from @RamblersGB
Bob Stewart MP intervenes on the Minister to criticise felling of 29 trees on South Bank for #gardenbridge
Central Government has "no intention" of giving more than the £30m already pledged to#gardenbridgee
The Government will now underwrite £9m of#gardenbridgee cancellation costs, with private sector paying anything above that, says minister
Minister explaining why and how Government decided to underwrite #gardenbridge cancellation costs.
Government considered there was "a reasonable chance" that part-funding #gardenbridge would represent value for money.
Transport minister Andrew Jones says #gardenbridge will be "iconic" and "innovative".
Minister says he recognises that the #gardenbridge divides opinion.
Andrew Jones MP explains that minister responsible for #gardenbridge is Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon.
Transport minister Andrew Jones will be replying to the #gardenbridge debate
"Who has sold us down the river?" asks Kate Hoey
#gardenbridge
Lambeth, Coin Street and Sadiq Khan could each stop the #gardenbridge tomorrow if they wanted, argues Hoey
No-one wants to be the one who pulls the plug on #gardenbridge says Hoey
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Transport Minister) has agreed 2 meet @BishopsLabour14 councillors re #gardenbridge - Hoey pic.twitter.com/mgrEipWuCV
#gardenbridge pushed through by "cosy little cartel" says Kate Hoey
Kate Hoey praises @FourthStreetDan’s analysis of #gardenbridgege business plan - recommends ppl read it
List of funders for #gardenbridge is "all smoke and mirrors" - Kate Hoey
This is what Bob Stewart said last year on TV https://t.co/2ZFqDbcZfj
Bob Stewart MP says he’s "increasingly against#gardenbridgege
Kate Hoey says @CoinStreet are not happy with the details of proposed lease for #gardenbridge South Bank land
#gardenbridge at risk of becoming "colossal white elephant" says @KateHoeyMP
Kate Hoey questioning role of EY (Ernst & Young) who were involved in #gardenbridge related audit and are also donors to the project.
Kate Hoey is talking about Richard De Cani (TfL) and Isabel Dedring (GLA) who were involved in #gardenbridge and now work for Arup
Kate Hoey is now talking about the TfL-run procurement process that led to Arup and Heatherwick winning the #gardenbridge job
HouseofCommons Today's adjournment debate on the Garden Bridge & its implications for London, moved by @KateHoeyMP has just started goo.gl/PxByrf
estwebber alert: Oliver Colvile asks if Dept for Transport considered whether there should be room for hedgehogs on the Garden Bridge
Kate Hoey reminds the Commons that when #gardenbridge was first announced it was said not to require public money. Now £60m+
#gardenbridge not just a London issue says @KateHoeyMP - given use of public money
Kate Hoey also criticises Joanna Lumley for her attitude to local people’s concerns regardin#gardenbridgege
#gardenbridge Trust "treated local views with disdain" during consultation period said @KateHoeyMP
#gardenbridge
@KateHoeyMP is explaining why she supported @TheLondonEye - built with out any public £££.
Kate Hoey describes Evening Standard as "mouthpiece of the #gardenbridge trust"
Kate Hoey gives a roll call of journalists who’ve tracked th#gardenbridgege story - list deservedly topped b@WHurst1t1 of the AJ
MP @KateHoeyMP begins by paying tribute to @TCOSLondon, WCDG + @LondonAssembly members as well @jenwrenmosley and @kevindcraig #gardenbridge
#gardenbridge adjournment debate in House of Commons starting NOW https://t.co/e6PC9OUZG3
RamblersGB Looking forward to @KateHoeyMP debate tonight on #gardenbridge. @RamblersGB have briefed MPs in order to improve public access in London.
#GardenBridge debate in House of Commons starting imminently - watch live at https://t.co/e6PC9OUZG3
Would love to know who is behind this pro #GardenBridge Twitter account poking fun at opponents to the scheme https://t.co/pc05iFjwGr
@CllrBGentry Southwark cabinet meets at 4pm.
Se_Railway SE-UPDATE Some services may be diverted to Cannon Street or Blackfriars to ease congestion through London Bridge caused by signalling issues
Se_Railway Trains through #LondonBridge may be delayed or revised at short notice due to a signalling problem. ow.ly/6n9b303ZfmO
KateHoeyMP Looking forward to the adjournment debate tonight on the Garden Bridge ! Could come as early as 6 30 PM @TCOSLondon
Interested in #GardenBridge?
Debate in House of Commons coming up soon - live web stream:
goo.gl/PxByrf
@jdaviescoates We may well revisit the idea of co-op or similar structure in medium term.
@jdaviescoates Thanks. Have looked with interest at Bristol Cable, for instance. For a long time we talked about becoming CIC.
Lambeth Council in #gardenbridge website error shock:
london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8892
The venue for the Lambeth Halloween rave that turned into a riot is going to be a pop-up @LondonFire museum: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8891
GSTTnhs There are still a few places left to tour #GuysCancer as part of @openhouselondon bit.ly/2b3c7sX pic.twitter.com/Z1vtoQ9a5s
Lambeth Palace Library - radical plans for new building at edge of palace’s walled gardelondon-se1.co.uk/news/view/8890Cpic.twitter.com/8DyE9wtsqAqA
"Are you confident that #GardenBridge will not require any taxpayer bailout once it is built?" - @Len_Duvall question to Mayor #MQT next wk
MPSSouthBank Productive meeting with @lambeth_council re road safety on #Belvedere Road
It almost became Aga Khan museum, but now block 9 at St Thomas’ Hospital is to be revampelondon-se1.co.uk/news/view/8888Opic.twitter.com/jhmjY3Elp5p5
Evening Standard list of #progress1000 top Londoners ranks #gardenbridge creator Joanna Lumley at # 24 - one place above Jeremy Corbyn.
Free beer at Waterloo Station pic.twitter.com/izYFJ58OeV
RT @SustainableTall: The ridiculousness of fully glazed #housing next to busy public realm - via @Dezeen https://t.co/CyuIn1RPTF https://t.…
Security stepped up at Al Jazeera studios in the Shard after reporter receives death threat: https://t.co/qyCqVNdSD4
£15m facade of new skyscraper at Elephant & Castle is being prefabricated in Portadown, Northern Ireland: https://t.co/ewRlST9lhO
Former TfL board member suggests Boris pushed thru #gardenbridge despite concerns of "many" board colleagues https://t.co/E00zmJtdN9
Watch the video of Jeremy Corbyn & Owen Smith speaking in SE1 last night: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8889 #labourfaith pic.twitter.com/XQ4i9ZZ3Wi
LIVE at @LondonAssembly, @FloEshalomi is proposing a motion about the Southern rail debacle https://t.co/5VeNA0Mj3C
unionviet Delivery now available from Union Viet using Amazon Restaurants via Prime Now app #amazonrestaurants #bankside #se1 pic.twitter.com/DUtZfPHbG4
"All of us are united in our opposition to TfL being involved in the #gardenbridge" - @FloEshalomi AM tells @LondonAssembly
London Assembly debating Diamond Jubilee Bridge motion - expect a few digs at #gardenbridge from AMs - live stream: https://t.co/5VeNA0Mj3C
Big thanks to everyone who's joined membership scheme to help save SE1 website - a good start but still a way to go london-se1.co.uk/membership/
Ministry of Justice says that going digital has enabled it to avoid printing a stack of paper as high as the Shard: https://t.co/DBKYKEjYmf
[Job vacancy] Bankside Urban Gardener [maternity cover], @BetterBankside + @BoroughMarket: https://t.co/wgKEd0I9kL
#gardenbridge adjournment debate in House of Commons tonight with @KateHoeyMP: https://t.co/qAacy7AF1q
Old cadaver lift + dissection amphitheatre to be retained in St Thomas' Hospital revamp: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8888 pic.twitter.com/QcRFH7YM0l
Pop-up home for London Fire Brigade Museum approved by Lambeth councillors last night london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8891 pic.twitter.com/CaA7GcrbCq
Lambeth Palace Library - major development plans announced - public exhibition Thu-Sat
london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8890 pic.twitter.com/bprKGiRnI1
What now after #brexit?
All welcome at @vauxhalllibdems meeting in Waterloo tonight
https://t.co/whuW7bMrRo
MartinBelam There's a squirrel trying to work out the revolving doors at the London Bridge Hilton. How's your Wednesday? pic.twitter.com/JKtvVOrfyM
Job vacancies posted on 7 September 2016
- Bankside Urban Gardener at Better Bankside + Borough Market
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