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Tunnelling machines for London line - KHL Group
... “Helen will bore the 2.6km southbound running tunnel to Kennington Park. Amy will bore the 2.4km northbound tunnel to Kennington Green.” ...
Socialist Party :: South London march against community centre closures ... 150 south London residents marched to oppose the closures of their community centres on 21 January. Hyde Housing Group plans to close centres in Stockwell and Kennington in Lambeth, and seven others across London. ... The march is only the beginning of the campaign as residents seek a judicial review to the closures in Stockwell and Kennington, and plan further lobbies of Hyde Housing head office at London Bridge. A petition launched after Christmas already has 2,500 signatures. ...
Hundreds bid sad final farewell to historian Stephen Humphrey - Southwark News
... Throughout the ceremony, pillars of sunlight pierced through the stained glass windows of the cathedral that was a short walk from Stephen’s home in Kennington, and where he grew up in Elephant and Castle. ... Stephen was found dead in his flat in Otto Street, Kennington, on November 30 after suffering a heart attack. ...
Joanna Lumley joins the fight to save the Stockwell community centre
... Two of the threatened community centres are at Stockwell and Kennington, and on Saturday The Ab Fab and Avengers actress Joanna Lumley OBE joined campaigners outside Stockwell tube station, recording a special video backing the campaign to save the Stockwell Centre. ... Hyde have announced plans to sell off or demolish the Stockwell Centre and the Kennington Park Centre in Lambeth, The Hub and Pavilion in Brent as well as The Arc and The Ringcross centres in Islington. ... Campaigners are also applying to list the Stockwell Centre and Kennington Park Community Centre as Assets of Community Value (ACV) under the scheme which would provide additional protection from development and a moratorium of six months on any sale of the centres. ... The Kennington Park Community Centre is earmarked for demolition, and plans from Hyde say they intend to build 100% luxury private homes which will be unaffordable to local residents.
Chair of Kennington Park Estate Tenants Association and former Leader of Lambeth Council, Joan Twelves:
I have lived next door to our community centre for over 30 years. My son went to kids karate there. Now I organise keep fit and computing classes for pensioners. The destruction of Kennington Park Community Centre will be more than a real loss to our community. It will damage the cohesion and social fabric of our Estate and we are calling on Hyde to reconsider.
Sadiq Khan confirmed news of tunnelling for the first major Tube line extension since the 1990s as two gigantic tunnel boring machines were unveiled in Battersea. The two 650-tonne machines, each the length of a football pitch, will create two 3.2km underground tunnels to extend the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line from Kennington to Battersea, via Nine Elms. ...
Two 650-tonne boring machines (each the length of a football pitch just FYI) from French firm NFM Technologies will create two 3.2km underground tunnels to extend the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line from Kennington to Battersea, via Nine Elms. ...
Tunnelling for Northern Line extension to begin in March - BBC News
... The Northern Line extension will run on the Charing Cross service through Kennington ... The extension, which will run west from Kennington, will be the first major expansion of the Tube since the Jubilee line in the late 1990s. ...
Sat 21 Jan: Councillors and residents fight to save Stockwell and Kennington park community centre
... Hyde have announced plans to sell off or demolish the Stockwell Centre and the Kennington Park Centre in Oval, The Hub and Pavilion in Brent as well as The Arc and The Ringcross centres in Islington. ... The Kennington Park Community Centre is earmarked for demolition, and plans from Hyde say they intend to build 100% luxury private homes which will be unaffordable to local residents. ... Chair of Kennington Park Estate Tenants Association and former Leader of Lambeth Council, Joan Twelves, said:
I have lived next door to our community centre for over 30 years. My son went to kids karate there. Now I organise keep fit and computing classes for pensioners. The destruction of Kennington Park Community Centre will be more than a real loss to our community. It will damage the cohesion and social fabric of our Estate and we are calling on Hyde to reconsider.
Protest to save Stockwell and Kennington community centres
... Hyde has announced plans to sell or demolish the Stockwell Centre and the Kennington Park Centre in Oval, The Hub and Pavilion in Brent as well as The Arc and The Ringcross centres in Islington. ... The Kennington Park Community Centre is earmarked for demolition, and Hyde intends to build luxury private homes which many say will be unaffordable to local residents. ...
Transport News | Publications > Local Transport Today > News > Transport Good for Property >
... On 12 January, London’s Evening Standard’s property supplement made great play of the benefits to potential new home buyers of new transport links in the capital. “Where railway lines go, home buyers turn up. One live project is the Northern line extension from Kennington to Battersea, opening in 2020. It [Kennington] has been gentrifying for decades but hasn’t reached the heights of fashionability. However, the Northern line spur may accelerate its popularity.” ...
Turnpike on Kennington Common, St Mark's behind around 1827
The area in and around what is now know as the Oval and Kennington Park has a rich and varied past – some good and some bad, writes Laurence Marsh who is the vice-chairman of the chairman of the Herne Hill Society. ... The land here was known as Kennington Common. A part survives today as Kennington Park. ...
Socialist Party :: Residents protest at plans to close nine community centres
... Instead, Hyde plans to bulldoze the Kennington Park Community Centre for luxury flats and lease the Stockwell Community Resource to a new provider - with absolutely no guarantees that its present service will be accommodated in the new deal. ...
Is Sherlock at the end of the road? He was if you were in South London
... There was a hair-raising scene in the London Sea Life Aquarium in County Hall, where episode three climaxed in a shooting in front of some hungry-looking sharks. And for another scene, Watson took the bus from Stop G in Kennington Road. ...
Childcare minister's Lambeth Walk boosts REAL literacy campaign
... The minister’s visit comes one day after the Government announced investment of more than £350,000 in two childcare schemes in Lambeth, through its capital grant funding. This will allow an extension project at Clapham Manor Children’s Centre Day Care and conversion work at Hurley Pre-school in Kennington. ...
Stephen Humphrey The funeral is at 10 a.m. on Thursday 19th January at St. George's Cathedral, St. George's Road SE1 7HY. (The coffin will be received at the Cathedral on January 18th after 5.45 p.m., when members of the public will be able to pay respects privately and leave flowers.) A reception will follow the ceremony, at approximately 11.30 a.m., at the Horse & Stables Pub, 122-124 Westminster Bridge Road. This is located near Lambeth North underground station. Please note Lambeth North station is closed, so the nearest tube for travel is Elephant & Castle. The burial will take place in Tillington, Petworth, at the All Hallows Churchyard at about 2 p.m.
Prices from £1,375,000:Georgian-stylehouses at St Agnes Place beside new-look Kennington Park
KENNINGTON With dramatic change taking place around it, Kennington itself has been stuck in time. Less than a mile from Parliament, the district’s Victorian terraces and Georgian squares act as a block on big development projects. It has been gentrifying for decades, but hasn’t reached the heights of fashionability. However, the Northern line spur may accelerate its popularity.
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Alongside refurbished Kennington Park is a rare new-build scheme, St Agnes Place, with Georgian-style houses priced from £1,375,000. Call 0333 0033 660.
Kennington also butts up against the Thames, right where ancient Lambeth Palace stands, and where an ugly office block has been bulldozed to make way for Palace View — 55 apartments with full-height glazing to maximise the vista. ...
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