Barry Gardiner MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Natural Environment, responding to the Environmental Audit Committee’s report on the Government’s inaction on air quality, said;
“Air pollution is a public health crisis that contributes to the deaths of tens of thousands of people each year...
Does this mean Labour will stop backing Boris Johnson’s plans for the Silvertown Tunnel, which will exacerbate pollution and congestion across east and south-east London?
So, whatever did happen to the No to Silvertown Tunnel campaign?
It’s 17 months since the Silvertown Tunnel was given planning approval by the secretary of state for transport. Since then, rather a lot has happened, but curiously, no digging has started – and the opening day for the tunnel slips further away.
Earlier this year, we decided to wind up our campaign. We began with a petition,…
Silvertown Tunnel approved: Sadiq Khan must think again, campaigners say
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has today approved London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plans to build the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road under the Thames from the Royal Docks to the Greenwich Peninsula.
The No to Silvertown Tunnelcampaign has been challenging these plans for nearly five years, conducting…
Pollution over the A102 on Thursday 2 November. This would be a key route to the Silvertown Tunnel The decision on whether the Silvertown Tunnel will be built has been delayed again – this time until May 2018 – to allow issues surrounding air quality to be considered further. We think this gives London mayor Sadiq Khan and his deputy mayor for transport, Val Shawcross, the ideal chance to show…
A decision on whether the Silvertown Tunnel will be built has been delayed until November to allow for further consideration of air quality issues. Today is six months since the end of the public examination into the scheme. An announcement had been due to be made this morning. But Transport Minister Paul Maynard has released a written statement to the House of Commons extending the deadline…
The Silvertown Tunnel planning examination is over – what happens next?
We’re coming to the end of Transport for London’s application to build the Silvertown Tunnel. The public examination into the scheme – effectively a fast-tracked planning inquiry – closed on 11 April. The inspectors have three months to give their recommendations to the Secretary of State for Transport, then we should get a final decision by early autumn. We’ve had volunteers present at most of…
Left: No to Silvertown Tunnel volunteer Ian Blore outside Meridian Primary School in Greenwich. Right: Our committee members Chris Taylor and Jill Austen in Peartree Way, also in Greenwich. Have you ever wondered just how pollution affects your neighbourhood? We’re offering local communities the funding to carry out their own air pollution tests in the New Year. Since 2013, the No to Silvertown…
What’s happening with the Silvertown Tunnel? A quick update…
Wednesday afternoon smog over the A102 heading away from the Blackwall Tunnel The public examination into Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Silvertown Tunnel proposals is in full swing. Here’s what we’re doing while all this is going on – and a couple of things you can do, too. Khan backed the Silvertown Tunnel after becoming mayor, but the final decision isn’t down to him. We’re now in a six-month process of…
Plans to regenerate areas like the Royal Docks are going ahead without spending £1 billion on a road tunnel What are you doing on Thursday 13 October? Come and share your views on the Silvertown Tunnel at the planning inquiry’s open public session at ExCeL in the Royal Docks. Now the planning process for the Silvertown Tunnel has got under way, there’s a lot of work for us to do – such as sifting…
A new tunnel feeding into this A102 southbound queue can only make congestion and pollution worse. Sadiq Khan’s backing for the Silvertown Tunnel is a betrayal of those who voted for him believing he would clean up London’s air, campaigners said today. The London mayor has announced he will support the £1bn project to create a new road tunnel between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Dock, after…
Terry was one of the volunteers who helped us with our first two pollution studies, putting up tubes like the one above We at No to Silvertown Tunnel were saddened to hear of the death of Terry Grant, who helped our campaign get off the ground and provided significant support to us. Terry GrantA former police sergeant, Terry was a lynchpin of the successful campaign to stop the Thames Gateway…
