“The proposed extension of the Northern Line to Nine Elms and Battersea took a significant step forward today as the formal public consultation on route and station options began with the circulation of a leaflet and questionnaire to nearly 40,000 households in the London Boroughs of Wandsworth, Lambeth and Southwark, as well as to hundreds [...]
“If these proposals go ahead, a new town of 40,000 will be created on our doorsteps over the next 15 years. That is the equivalent of the population of Welwyn Garden City deposited on Thameside from the Albert Embankment to Battersea, but without the gardens, with no civic heart and on only one sixth of [...]
Worth reading:
http://kovforum.blogspot.com/2010/03/kovs-submission-on-vauxall-planning.html
If you have been following this on the blog and elsewhere and went to the recent public meetings, then you will appreciate the MASSIVE impact that this framework proposal will have on Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Battersea (VNEB) if it is adopted.
And you now only have until 5pm on 29 March to comment on or [...]
… reads the headline to the article in today’s Guardian which goes on to say, ‘The winning design by Kieran Timberlake architects reflects the US political process: nominally open to all, yet, in practice, tightly controlled.’
You can read the article here http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/23/us-embassy-cool-remote-not-subtle
And if, like me, the word ha-ha is new to you, in architectural terms [...]