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• TfL to merge Edgware bus station into shopping centre redevelopment

  07-09-2022 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Plans to redevelop Edgware town centre’s shopping centre could also include the neighbouring bus station after Transport for London (TfL) agreed to merge its property with the shopping centre, owned by Ballymore.
  Ballymore bought the shopping centre in July 2020 and has been gathering ideas about how to redevelop the site via a public consultation. There had been expectations that they would take the opportunity to expand the 13-acre site by including the bus station and garage next to it.
  
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• Tunnelling starts on East London’s Silvertown road tunnel

  07-09-2022 16:23 via ianvisits.co.uk
  After several years of work to prepare the ground, tunnelling has started on the Silvertown road tunnel linking Blackwall and North Greenwich. Due to open in 2025, it aims to reduce road congestion in the approaches to the existing Blackwall Tunnel, but it hasn’t been without controversy over concerns of increased pollution and the cost of the tunnel.
  Map of the Silvertown tunnels (c) Riverlinx
  Since construction work on the Silvertown Tunnel project began in 2020, a huge amount of work ha
  
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• Jurassic World exhibition opens at the ExCeL London

  07-09-2022 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Based on the movie franchise, Jurassic World: The Exhibition is an immersive experience that will bring you face-to-face with life-size dinosaurs, brought to life like never before.
  (c) Jurassic World exhibition
  Fans will enter via the world-famous Jurassic World gates, where they’ll enter a Lost World of prehistoric creatures and interactive scenes inspired by the films. Walk through the park and watch your surroundings come to life. Get up-close with a Brachiosaurus; tread carefully when
  
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• Step-free access completed at East Grinstead station

  07-09-2022 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The railway station in the commuter town of East Grinstead has gained step-free access following several years of local campaigning. To do that, an old open-air concrete footbridge has been removed and a brand new covered footbridge with two large lifts has been constructed as a replacement.
  A special guest on the opening day
  As well as the completion of the £4.5m project, funded by the Government’s Access for All scheme, a plaque was unveiled in memory of campaigner Eric Mackie MBE,
  
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• Embankment’s 400-year old York Water Gate

  07-09-2022 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Sitting a decent walk from the edge of the Thames is a grand stone gateway, the York Watergate that was once right next to the river. It’s not the gate that moved though, but the river.The York Watergate has stood on this location ever since it was built in 1626 as a grand entrance linking the river to York House, one of the many grand manor houses that fronted the Thames at the time.
  York House had a long history, having been first built for the Bishops of Norwich by at least 1237. When K
  
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