Don’t believe the report in the Evening Standard Homes & Property section (2 November), which says that the ‘planning permission has been given for an extension of the Northern Line’. It hasn’t. The Vauxhall Society called the NLE developer, Treasury Holdings, to check. ‘I have no idea where the journalist got his story from. He certainly never spoke to me,’ said Tony Whitehead, TH’s Northern Line Extension Project Director. The NLE website says a formal planning application ‘could be’...
A newspaper report says that Caroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group, has branded the public consultation on the Northern Line extension as “misleading and flawed.” has has accused TfL of deliberately misleading the public. “This latest consultation is fundamentally flawed,” she is quoted as saying. “Two of the possible routes have already been completely ruled out, so it is just misleading to include them in the latest consultation. TfL has already declared that option...
Community discussion on the Northern Line proposalsDate: Thursday 16 June 2011Time: 8pmVenue: Ashmole Community Centre, Meadow Road, London SW8 1QT Your local representatives, including all three of your local Councillors and your Assembly Member Val Shawcross, have organised a community led discussion to pull together a community response to the Northern Line consultation. More information on the proposals we will be discussing can be found here: www.northernlineextension.com
Claylands Green Area NLE Action is one of the new community groups stung into action by the excessive noise, dust and mess involved in developers’ proposals to tunnel beneath homes in Kennington and Vauxhall for the controversial Northern Line Extension to Wandsworth. Claylands Green’s analysis of the developers’ own Environmental Impact Assessment, shows that three 20-ft (6m) high ventilation shafts would be built at one-kilometre intervals These shafts, one also be used for inspection, and would discharge heat and...
David Boardman of the Kennington Association Planning Forum is circulating some talking points you might care to raise at the ‘consultation’ meetings that are now coming thick and fast on the Northern Line tube extension and other riverside development at Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Battersea. David suggests: developing VNEB at the highest density, 16,000 dwelling option in the draft Framework document is undesirable in itself – at more realistic densities, we wouldn’t need an expensive NLE the current NLE...
‘It feels as though it’s being sneaked through without proper scrutiny while everyone’s looking at the Olympics’, an insider tells The Vauxhall Society about the proposed Tube line from Kennington to Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station. The Tube proposal ‘has nothing whatsoever to do with any rational plan for extending the Underground’, and has been devised ‘merely to suit the ambitions and convenience of those who stand to make money out of Nine Elms, notably Treasury Holdings, the...
IMPACT, the residents’ association for SW8′s Meadow Road, Palfrey Place, Ashmole Street, Claylands Road and Place and Trigon Road, is urging people to attend two special, but hitherto little-publicised, meetings on 23 and 25 May for those whose homes are in the path of tunnelling and ventilation shaft construction for the proposed Northern Line extension from Kennington to Nine Elms and Battersea. Most people, IMPACT says, are unaware that the developers, Treasury Holdings, are holding two special meetings specifically...
The Commercial developers that want you to pay for the Kennington-Nine Elms-Battersea Tube Line to jack up the price of their skyscraper riverside flats are misleading Vauxhall people into the assumption that it is no longer possible to object to the scheme in the current consultation. But you can still object to some or all of the scheme or the way it’s being sold. Locals are puzzled by the current Treasury Holdings ‘consultation’ leaflet and questionnaire (see below –...
It’s not enough that ‘they’ want to dig a questionably-useful Northern Line Tube Extension under your house at your expense to serve luxury tower blocks and commercial development in Nine Elms. Now, according to a dubious ‘consultation’ document ‘they’ also want to plonk Tube ventilation shafts on three of your few remaining green spaces – at Claylands Road, Kennington Green, and Kennington Park. Green space grabThe green space grab emerges from a ‘consultation’ document you are urged to fill...
They’re already tunnelling in Vauxhall to construct the Thames Tideway major sewer, and now they’d like to tunnel even more to build a Northern Line Tube extension from Kennington to Nine Elms and Battersea. The purpose of the new Tube – which you will pay for – is to ferry people to and from the City and luxury flats in Battersea. It may not be long now before ‘they’ start digging a new Tube line under your house in...
