Wednesday 11 October 2017
News & features published on 11 October 2017
Garden Bridge: bill for taxpayers could have topped £100m - Hodge
If Sadiq Khan hadn't pulled the plug on City Hall's support for the Garden Bridge, the cost to the public purse could have exceeded £100 million, according to Dame Margaret Hodge MP.
Go-ahead for 30 new flats on top of Guinness Court in Snowsfields
Plans to add an extra two storeys to Guinness Court in Snowsfields - with 18 private flats and 12 homes designated social and intermediate housing - have been approved by Southwark councillors.
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Wednesday recap: London-SE1.co.uk/date/2017-10-11
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RT @se17: "I've been championing Elephant and Castle since we moved there in 1999 - and now its time has come" says Ldn deputy mayor @justi…
Tower Bridge as a rollercoaster
https://t.co/t0s2qPEgYG
Rockingham Estate ex-council flat - "exceptional capital growth expected" says estate agent selling £400k flat https://t.co/P3RUb2ZVQC
Extra floors to be added to Guinness Court in Snowsfields - full story: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9412 pic.twitter.com/KgSSyuCNyZ
Great Guildford Street: next week @coyleneil meeting St Mungos + local residents re antisocial behaviour concerns https://t.co/PQ94ScOXpi
RT @SuecharlieSmith: At Southwark Cathedral today for the visit of HRH Duke of Kent. With the older cheerleaders & young marketeers & Salmo…
RT @PLATFORM7events: ‘#England, Your England’ (1941) by George Orwell read by Alain English on London Bridge | #LBLiveStation #brexit http…
Lunchtime Gardening in Waterloo tomorrow with @BOSTSE1 https://t.co/n17jFMGqoC
Just published - #GardenBridge: bill for taxpayers could have topped £100m if Sadiq hadn't pulled the plug - Hodgedlvr.it/PttBrVn
"The people of London do want an answer to that question" says Sadiq aide David Bellamy asked about where #gardenbridge £££ has been spent
4ChordsNoNet Wet/damp #CS7 paint claimed another victim this morning. This time in Southwark Bridge Road.
@follyforlondon @sianberry Want to listen to recording again but essentially he fudged it and said both statements were true.
"I would not want to enter in to this sort of arrangement ever again" - TfL's Mike Brown on #gardenbridge funding/governance structure
Now @sianberry asking TfL's Mike Brown to reconcile his 2015 claim that #GardenBridge was transport scheme with 2016 remark to Hodge.
RT @JennetteArnold: “Why not all of it?†Classic example of how a self indulgent group of people got access to public money & spent it wit…
Live broadcast of #choralevensong from @SouthwarkCathed begins 3.30pm on @BBCRadio3 with girls' choir + lay clerks https://t.co/GzZhUk7t4W
RT @Wendelilah_: Heartbroken..much beloved, bright Cube Axial WLS stolen today in front of Old Kent Road, @Tesco SE1 5HG at 6:50pm. Please…
AM @tomcopley asks Mike Brown whether TfL would embark on new scheme structured like #gardenbridge trust.
"Absolutely not," he says.
TfL's Mike Brown on #gardenbridge: "It's difficult to compare it to any other project, because I've never seen a project quite like this."
TfL "waiting to hear" from #gardenbridge Trust as to how much of £20m loan might be repaid, Mike Brown tells@LondonAssemblyy
Boris Johnson "ought to explain himself" over #gardenbridge, @margarethodge tells @LondonAssembly. She says concept fine; process dubious.
"I deeply regret that Boris Johnson didn't come and talk to me" - @margarethodge on #GardenBridge review
@LondonAssembly
AM @tomcopley presses TfL's Mike Brown over minutes of #GardenBridge Trust. MB promises to do another search of TfL records. @LondonAssembly
RT @psyclingclub: @StolenBikes_UK 1 of our lovely cyclists has had their brand new Raleigh Criterium 2017 bike stolen. Outside Lidl, Old Ke…
Dame @margarethodge tells @LondonAssembly that if she'd known how much work #gardenbridge review would involve, she might not have done it
Did Hodge try to block release of #gardenbridge review transcripts. asks @AndrewBoff
'No,' replies @margarethodge @LondonAssembly
At @LondonAssembly @AndrewBoff is airing claims from D Lammy / J Lumley that Labour mayoral candidates were pressured 2 oppose #gardenbridge
Margaret Hodge defends independence of her #gardenbridge review; acknowledges her long-term friendship with Sadiq Khan @LondonAssembly
Margaret Hodge on #gardenbridge donors - "I was a bit [suspicious] of the fact that so many of them were anonymous" @LondonAssembly
Margaret Hodge rejects #gardenbridge trust claim that uncertainty caused by her review scuppered their fundraising @LondonAssembly
#gardenbridge choice was "a very repercussive decision for any mayor to have to take" says Sadiq's right hand man David Bellamy
"I simply couldn't believe that they would be able to raise the money for the management + maintenance" - @margarethodge on #gardenbridge
If #gardenbridge had gone ahead, it would have ended up costing taxpayers at least £100m - Margaret Hodge's assessement@LondonAssemblyy
Margaret Hodge on #gardenbridge:
"It was supposed to be the people's bridge, but I'm not sure which people it served"
@LondonAssembly
#gardenbridge suffered from "abuse of protocols" designed to protect public money, @margarethodge - "total lack of regard for due process"
"Lack of transparency" also contributed to downfall of #gardenbridge, says @margarethodge @LondonAssembly
#gardenbridge ran into trouble because of "lack of clarity about the purpose" @margarethodge tells @LondonAssembly
Watch live as @LondonAssembly members as awkward questions about #gardenbridge + M Hodge's review of project https://t.co/wFd30jfUoi
At 3.30pm @BBCRadio3 will be broadcasting #choralevensong live from @Southwarkcathed pic.twitter.com/8Zo8mVzYld
Just published - Southwark OKs 30 new - mostly private - flats on top of Guinness Court, Snowsfields dlvr.it/Ptqrx3
RT @LonMidArchSoc: For #bollardwednesday we bring you an ‘ace’ #bollard from Clink Street @se1 https://t.co/PoUHkX02Yx
Dame Margaret Hodge and TfL's Mike Brown to face #GardenBridge grilling at @LondonAssembly 2pm today london-se1.co.uk/news/view/9405
RT @HE_Archive: The @TowerBridge branch of the London County and Westminster Bank at 201 Tooley Street, #Bermondsey. 1913 https://t.co/jroh…
Lower Marsh office building for sale at £2.5 million https://t.co/oGgJK5VKJw
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