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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A man was crushed to death by a lorry which “floated through the air like a hot-air balloon” in strong winds and landed on him, an inquest in Leeds has heard. Edward Slaney, 35, was killed and a 22-year-old woman seriously injured as high winds hit Leeds city centre last March. The lorry, which was doing 20 mph, was driving past the city’s tallest building, Bridgewater Place. Bridgewater Place, completed five years ago, is 360 ft high but a...

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The answer may be written in the wind, but here in Vauxhall wouldn’t you rather read it on paper? Are the Mayor and Lambeth/Wandsworth council planners too happy to take developers’ word for it that clustering tall buildings at Vauxhall Cross/Nine Elms poses no wind turbulence risk? The district’s unusual, Thames-induced wind conditions are ripe for international academic study, not least because tall buildings may pose a security risk to the new US Embassy at Nine Elms, suggests a...

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Kylun: there’ll be a site visit by the public inquiry to the ‘handkerchief of green’ in the week beginning 27 February. The Kylun Inquiry opens on 6 March, is scheduled to close on 21 March and the Inspector is due to report to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government by 25 May. After that, it’s politics.

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Already beset by corrupt players and match-fixing, could cricket be in for another buffeting? Surrey County Cricket Club is reported as asking its planning consultants Savills for advice on whether, as well as stopping play at The Kia Oval at Kennington, wind turbulence generated by massing skyscrapers at Vauxhall Cross could pose a greater health and safety risk to players and spectators than local planning officers may realise. Cricket administrators already want to know if the Mayor, Boris Johnson,...

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Vauxhall-based property company CLS Holdings has applied for planning permission for its ambitious ‘Vauxhall Square’ redevelopment plan at Vauxhall Cross. CLS Chief Executive Officer Richard Tice stresses that the project does not depend upon the Northern Line extension from Kennington to Nine Elms being built. ‘Vauxhall Square’, would occupy the whole of the CLS-owned block bounded to the north by Parry Street, to the west by Wandsworth Road (with the exception of a terrace of listed houses), and by...

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