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No more trip hazards: Enfield pilots safe in-pavement electric car charging system

21-08-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

Enfield Council has become the first in London to trial a new way of allowing people to charge their street-parked electric cars without running a power cable across the pavement.
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For electric car owners who park their cars on the road, normally, the only way to recharge the battery is to use a third-party charger elsewhere or run an electric mains cable from the home to the car. However, trailing a power cable across the pavement can be a trip hazard. Sensible car owners will p

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Easier access to South Merton railway station being planned

21-08-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

The busy road outside South Merton railway station could be easier to cross later this year after residents persuaded the council to take action to improve the situation.The road is only one lane each way but very busy, and the only crossing is a traffic island in the middle of the road. On my visit the other day, it took several minutes before a gap in the traffic appeared long enough to allow pedestrians to safely cross the road, so it clearly needs improving.
Merton Council has now drawn up p

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Croydon’s “50p building” could be converted into flats

21-08-2024 09:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

One of Croydon’s most distinctive office blocks could be converted into residential flats, according to plans put forward by the building’s owner.The office block, officially called No. 1 Croydon (formerly the NLA Tower) but best known as the “50p Building”, was built in 1968-70 next to East Croydon station to a design by Richard Seifert & Partners. The current owners, Britel Fund Trustees, want to use permitted development rights brought into effect in 2021 to conver

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The story behind Walthamstow’s high street griffins

21-08-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk

A row of recently renovated Walthamstow shops is decorated with what looks like a row of dragons. In fact, they’re not dragons, but griffins — the difference being that griffins come with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion, and the head and wings of an eagle with its talons on the front legs.
The mistake is easy to understand as that’s one of the least eagle-like heads I have ever seen on a griffin.The griffins all appear on a long row of shops at the St James end of Walth

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