Two-way traffic in Lower Road: consultation ‘later this year’
This question and answer from last week’s Southwark council assembly may be of interest. Cllr David Hubber (Lib Dem Surrey Docks ward councillor) In view of the fact that a reversion to two-way working...
View ArticleCycle superhighway along Jamaica Road delayed till 2016
Changes to the road layout on Jamaica Road are still a couple of years away. Cllr Hamish McCallum (Lib Dem, Riverside Ward) What discussions have been had between Southwark council and Transport for...
View ArticleSalter statues could be unveiled this year as appeal reaches £50k target
Exciting news from the Salter Statues Campaign This month we can announce great news for all those who have spent the last three years campaigning to restore the memory of Ada and Alfred. The Salter...
View ArticleSix year old girl borrows one millionth item from ‘amazing’ Canada Water Library
This weekend Canada Water Library celebrated its one millionth loan since the library opened in November 2011. The library awarded a prize to the member taking out the millionth loan – six year old...
View Article800 DVD box sets seized in SE16
From the latest Southwark trading standards bulletin: Following a complaint about inferior DVD box sets being sold via eBay a warrant was obtained for a flat in SE16. Approximately 800 box sets of...
View ArticleLondon Bubble explores politics and apathy in run-up to 2015 general election
Do you believe in our democratic system? Or do you share Russell Brand’s view? Either way, London Bubble wants to hear from you. In 1950, 84 per cent of the UK population voted in the general...
View ArticleCouncil’s Cleaner Greener Safer funding launched at Surrey Docks Farm
Each year, Southwark’s five community councils award thousands of pounds in funding to local environmental improvement projects. This scheme is known as Cleaner Greener Safer and in the next year £1.8...
View ArticleCabinet ministers approve Thames ‘super sewer’
Thames Water has won planning consent for the proposed 15-mile ‘super sewer’ tunnel beneath London. The announcement that Chambers Wharf will be a major site for work was made just hours before...
View ArticleMayor declines to re-zone Bermondsey Station
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has rejected the suggestion that Bermondsey Station should be in zone 1 rather than zone 2. London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon had asked the Mayor to consider, in the...
View ArticleSainsbury’s Local has local staff
Sainsbury’s Local in Jamaica Road is employing local people. The supermarket has announced that out of 29 people working shifts at the shop all but six live within one mile. This result follows a...
View ArticleNew leisure centre at Canada Water: council in ‘early discussions’
Southwark Council says that it is in early discussions with the owners of Surrey Quays Shopping Centre and Harmsworth Quays over plans for a new leisure centre at Canada Water. In the meantime the...
View ArticleDuke of Westminster’s firm gives £3,000 to Salter Statues fund
The campaign to honour two of Bermondsey’s leading socialists has received a boost from an unlikely quarter … the Duke of Westminster’s property firm Grosvenor. Read the full story on the Salter...
View ArticleC10 bus: 6 per cent of trips bypassed Rotherhithe peninsula
London Assembly member Val Shawcross recently tabled this question to Mayor of London Boris Johnson: I understand that the C10 has a problem due to traffic in the Rotherhithe area and are working with...
View ArticleCouncillor’s ‘serious concern’ over street drinking, begging and littering at...
From the blog of Riverside Lib Dem councillor Anood Al-Samerai: I also went along to our ward Safer Neighbourhood police meeting to raise serious concern about the area around Bermondsey tube station....
View ArticleRotherhithe broadband: council hires consultants to examine problem
Southwark Council has commissioned consultancy firm Atkins to examine potential solutions to the lack of high-speed broadband internet service on the Rotherhithe peninsula. News of Atkins’ involvement...
View ArticleMayor lukewarm about bringing cycle hire to SE16
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has indicated that his priority for the cycle hire scheme is adding more docking stations to the existing area before further expansions of the scheme into new parts of...
View ArticleCouncil considers controlled parking zone for Rotherhithe & Surrey Quays
Southwark Council is to allocate £82,750 towards a feasibility study and consultation on setting up a controlled parking zone (CPZ) for Rotherhithe and Surrey Quays. A controlled parking zone is an...
View ArticleBoris ‘passionate’ about solving Rotherhithe broadband problem
From a City Hall report published this week, authorising the expenditure of £20,000 on research about broadband connectivity in London (the emphasis is ours): Investigating the state of London’s...
View ArticleCouncil to demolish Albion Street ‘eyesore’ houses
Southwark Council leader Peter John has promised to “bring an end to an eyesore” by demolishing three derelict and “pretty grotty” houses on Albion Street. The council’s cabinet this week agreed to buy...
View Article‘Brunel Bridge’ Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf crossing plans to be revived by...
Mayor of London Boris Johnson says he ‘might well’ consider supporting the construction of a bridge across the Thames for pedestrians and cyclists linking Rotherhithe with Canary Wharf. At Mayor’s...
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