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• The London Buzz – 13th August 2024

  13-08-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s round-up of what’s happening in London:
  Westminster Council has released a draft planning enforcement plan and is seeking feedback from residents through an online survey and an events Fitzrovia News
  A visit to Saffron Close, a small cul-de-sac within the London Borough of Sutton that can only be accessed through the neighboring Borough of Croydon, making it one of several exclaves in the area created due to historical boundary decisions. Diamond Geezer
  London has two new be
  
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• New public garden and viewing tower for Regent’s Park

  13-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Regent’s Park in central London is about to get a viewing tower, as approval has been granted to create a new garden and reuse an old water tower for the public.
  New garden and tower (c) HTA Design LLP
  The water tower stands in a disused plot of land that was the Royal Park’s former nursery but has been disused since 2018 when a replacement opened in Hyde Park, leaving behind empty greenhouses and warehouses.
  After showing off the plans last year, planning approval has now been grant
  
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• HS2 slides a 450m long bridge across the Wendover Dean viaduct

  13-08-2024 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A new railway viaduct has been completed just outside London, as part of the HS2 railway passing near Wendover.
  Aerial image of completion of 8 month Wendover Dean Viaduct deck slide August 2024 (c) HS2
  The Wendover Dean Viaduct passes over a wide valley just south of Wendover and was constructed by building a series of piers first, then sliding the bridge – all 3,700 tonnes of it – onto the piers from the northern end.
  The deck of the Wendover Dean Viaduct – which stretches fo
  
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• Tickets Alert: More dates for Sandhurst military academy tours

  13-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Not far outside London is Sandhurst, the British Army’s military training centre for officers, and they hold occasional tours for the public of the grand buildings hidden behind high walls.
  The tours are a mix of learning about the military heritage, looking around several grand and impressive buildings, and seeing the grounds that are usually off-limits to the public.
  I visited in 2023 – review here.Tours take place at 10am on select dates, need to be booked in advance, and once a d
  
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• Hampton Court Palace’s Chapel Royal filled with scaffolding to conserve its Baroque carving

  13-08-2024 12:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Hampton Court Palace’s ornately decorated Chapel Royal has closed to worshipers for the first time in two decades to allow a rare chance for conservation work to be carried out.
  Conservation at Hampton Court Palace’s Chapel Royal (c) Historic Royal Palaces.
  First built in 1514 for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey on the site of a chapel used by the Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem, the Chapel Royal was later enlarged and embellished for Henry VIII and then for William II & Mary
  
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• New funding found to build a new Overground station at Surrey Canal Road

  13-08-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Plans for a new London Overground station at Surrey Canal Road have been amended to allow the nearby housing developer to contribute more to the cost of building the station. However, the agreement will see a reduction in the number of affordable houses being included in the Surrey Canal Triangle development area.
  Location of new station on existing tube map
  The housing development around the Millwall football club is being delivered in five phases, and the additional contribution by the develop
  
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