Lambeth Council will hold two open days on 14 and 15 March (3pm to 8pm) at Unit 10A St George Wharf to kick-start a new phase of consultation on an update to the 2008 Vauxhall Supplementary Planning Document. The open days will include information on: Suggested draft principles to guide development Plans for a new linear park (in Wandsworth) Information on how new infrastructure such as schools and community facilities could be paid for The material on show will...

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There will be a public exhibition (on the site) of the proposed ‘One Nine Elms’ development of the Market Towers site tomorrow Friday 24 February (4-7pm) and Saturday 25th February (10am-2pm). The exhibition information will also be made available on their website: www.onenineelms.co.uk.

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Pressure is growing for Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey and Wandsworth MP Jane Ellison to demand that their respective borough councils and the candidates for May’s London Mayoral elections get real about the risk of tall building-induced wind turbulence in the skyscraper cluster now building at Vauxhall Cross. At issue, a call to Lambeth Council, now being discussed by Vauxhall community groups, to halt all further approval of tall-building planning applications and to stop construction work already under way. This...

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Author, Vauxhall resident and TVS member Stephen Bayley has stepped into the debate about the skyscraper-and-shadow redevelopment of Vauxhall Cross and Nine Elms. Bayley does so not in a book or newspaper article (not yet anyway) but in a pronouncement to a TVS affiliate, the Fentiman Road and Richborne Terrace Association. Bayley calls for development proposals to be met with ‘enthusiasm and optimism and ingenuity’, not ‘Canute-like’ with ‘reactionary bleating, whining and groaning’. The author imagines that ‘specially backward...

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