Friday 28 April 2017
News & features published on 28 April 2017
Sadiq Khan drops support for Garden Bridge
The future of the Garden Bridge is now in severe doubt after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan declined to provide maintenance funding guarantees the project requires before work can start.
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Tweets on 28 April 2017
Friday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2017-04-28
#GardenBridge item starting now on #newsnight.
RT @BBCRadioLondon: .@SunnyandShay want your thoughts on #gardenbridge project Do you support it or not? https://t.co/N9IUrnBUlh
#Newsnight on BBC2 at 10.30 will be covering the #GardenBridge story.
ThatTimWalker Garden Bridge scrapped, sister voting Lib Dem, Theresa expected to sack him. Has anyone had a worse week than Boris?
A permanent home for Waterloo Library could be part of @OasisJohanna school redevelopment london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9193
LBC As the Garden Bridge is scrapped, @WHurst1 tells @mrjamesob the full, alarming story of where it all went wrong l-bc.co/2QB7qf
Sadiq's insistence that #gardenbridge GLA guarantee would be "blank cheque" is stark contrast to his previous publi… https://t.co/p0k0x6mthN
#gardenbridge - @mrjamesob's full interview with Sadiq Khan worth a listen. overcast.fm/+GSM00a7Vs
#gardenbridge story updated with comment from Lord Davies of @TheGardenBridge Trust: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9196
RT @TCOSLondon: @SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon @KateHoeyMP @tomcopley @CarolinePidgeon @sianberry @prwhittle @AndrewBoff @CarolineRussell @Londo…
HollinsMargaret Word on the street, just now #Southwark pic.twitter.com/anEaPemCym
Spring Plant Fair tomorrow at @GardenMuseumLDN https://t.co/5HukKfjFp9
RowanMoore It's also sad. What a waste of energy and goodwill. Hijacked by vanity
RowanMoore The scandal now is how they managed to spend 40 mil not building the #gardenbridge Someone shd swing for this (Boris)
Western end of Tooley Street closed to traffic in BOTH directions over the Bank Holiday weekend due to @TLProgramme thameslinkprogramme.co.uk/tooleystreet
The old Sainsbury's sausage factory has now been completely demolished dlvr.it/MQs0Ms pic.twitter.com/RZSZnbrsXY
RT @SamuelFrenchLtd: To commemorate the loss of the #gardenbridge we have installed our own in the office.
It cost two hundred million po…
Walking the Elephant - creative workshop today at E&C Shopping Centre https://t.co/sin1qk6x7P
RT @CarolinePidgeon: Unbelievable https://t.co/pS9hOyPKHK
Evening Standard editorial line continues to back #gardenbridge pic.twitter.com/7SgaxwDhQT
RT @savingsouthwark: Very important to put your opinions forward to the council. Almost all of Blackfriars Road is earmarked for new develo…
jamescwilmore Not over yet! @TheGardenBridge: "We have had enormous support from our funders & v. confident we can raise the remaining funds required."
Consultation ends today on Southwark draft policy for these 32 potential development sites in SE1… https://t.co/6w9dANJt9x
Uniqlo Tate Lates - tonight at Tate Modern https://t.co/zSI85taXPq
theousherwood Response from the Conservatives to Sadiq Khan's decision not to guarantee the running costs of the Garden Bridge: pic.twitter.com/pWNShFEhVs
Video of @LBC's @mrjamesob pressing @SadiqKhan for #gardenbridge inquiry now embedded here: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9196
RT @LBC: Sadiq has effectively killed the Garden Bridge. @mrjamesob puts him on the spot about all that taxpayers’ money https://t.co/cwmr4…
WHurst1 Really enjoyed talking to @mrjamesob on LBC just now. A great journalist who is as angry about the #gardenbridge as I am it seems!
In the light of today's #gardenbridge news, worth rereading this exchange of letters last autumn between Sadiq + GBT https://t.co/eBZKrAegQv
Two hours since City Hall announced Sadiq's #gardenbridge change of heart.
No word from @TheGardenBridge Trust yet.
TCOSLondon @se1 check out @LondonLive news with Michael Ball commenting on today's #gardenbridge news
Tonight - an evening of storytelling, spoken word and song at @oasishubcoffee https://t.co/dclePkSxRO
DeborahJaneOrr So, the #GardenBridge will only ever exist in Joanna Lumley's imagination. Which is a lovely, perfect place for it to be sited.
Just published - Sadiq Khan drops support for #GardenBridge dlvr.it/P0x18M
RT @kevindcraig: YES!!! @MayorofLondon - credit to @tcos @wcdg @KateHoeyMP @benkind @tomcopley @FloEshalomi @CarolinePidgeon & all who to…
RT @benkind: This is the right decision on #gardenbridge by @SadiqKhan - but @TheGardenBridge Trust must be required to pay back public ££…
RT @jenwrenmosley: @SadiqKhan Thank you Sadiq for listening to residents of Waterloo & London re #gardenbridge we applaud your decision @Bi…
#gardenbridge @tomcopley "absolutely delighted Mayor Khan is putting an end to this piece of Johnsonian indulgence" london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9196
Sadiq Khan has "finally done the right thing" re #gardenbridge says @CarolinePidgeon AM london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9196
Could Competition and Markets Authority investigate the #GardenBridge procurement? Question asked in House of Lords https://t.co/Rj00zafYjm
Reaction from @CoinStreet to Sadiq's #gardenbridge decision: "we welcome the mayor's decision to end uncertainty" london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9196
KateHoeyMP RIght decision by @MayorofLondon on #gardenbridge Local community delighted. Thanks to all campaigners @BishopsLabour14 @TCOSLondon
RT @MayorofLondon: I will not be providing Mayoral guarantees for the Garden Bridge Project - my letter to the Chair of the Garden Bridge T…
RT @BTPLondonBridge: LU Staff are collecting for the East Africa Crisis Appeal all today at #LondonBridge
You can donate as you leave the @…
MPSCathedrals Early arrest on #Cathedrals ward by NW cluster officers. In relation to a domestic assault reported at #Southwark front desk yesterday #se1
se1 Just published - Lambeth and @OasisWaterloo discuss redevelopment of @OasisJohanna school site dlvr.it/P0SD2f
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