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• The London Buzz – 11th September 2024

  11-09-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Hackney library staff are urging the council to solve “extreme heat” in several buildings and bring temperatures in line with other libraries across the borough. Hackney Citizen
  Over the weekend TfL withdrew bus route 549, extended route W13 and substantially restructured routes W12 and W14. Diamond Geezer
  Herzog & de Meruon’s revised plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station will be ‘substantially different’ to the hugely
  
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• English Heritage – Some of our Blue Plaques are Missing

  11-09-2024 17:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  London is littered with Blue Plaques on buildings announcing to all that pass that Someone Famous once lived or worked there. But quite a lot of them have gone missing over the years, and now English Heritage wants to know what happened to them.
  Now, English Heritage is calling on the public to help uncover information which could lead to the return of lost plaques, if they survive.
  Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash
  Plaques that are no longer installed on a building may have been lost due t
  
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• Grand Central promises more services and new trains for longer contract

  11-09-2024 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Grand Central, the railway operator that runs services between London and the North-East has applied to expand its services and has offered to buy a fleet of new trains to support them.
  (c) Grand Central
  The company says that its plans would improve connectivity between key destinations in the North East and West Yorkshire with London, offering increased frequency and new direct journey opportunities.
  They plan to offer up to two additional daily return services between London and West Yorkshire
  
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• Lambeth to pedestrianise the busy road behind the Southbank Centre

  11-09-2024 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The busy road at the back of the Southbank Centre is about to be pedestrianised as part of a wider project to improve the area’s appearance.
  Concert Hall Approach (c) Lambeth Council
  The Concert Hall Approach is the road from the back of the Royal Festival Hall and leads via the railway underpass to Waterloo station. Although it looks like a rather shabby pavement, it’s actually a road and was often used by buses turning up to the Waterloo roundabout.
  Despite being a road, according
  
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• Blackheath station car park could be developed for housing

  11-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A property developer is proposing plans to turn Blackheath station’s car park into housing. The car park is next to the railway station and, at weekends, hosts a lively farmers market.
  Blackheath station car park – source: Acorn/JPA
  The housing plans, put forward by the property developer, Acorn with designs by John Pardey Architects, would replace much of the car park with a long row of 45 new homes. Naturally, building on a car park means fewer parking spaces, and the proposals sim
  
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• TfL prepares for major Tram upgrade with improved accessible trams

  11-09-2024 11:30 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is about to order a fleet of 24 new trams for use across South London, to replace the aging trams that started in service when the tram network first opened in May 2000.
  Tram wildlife corridor (c) TfL
  The new trams will offer customers a more comfortable and reliable service along with several improved features including a redesigned interior, air-conditioning, real-time travel information, and mobile device charging points. The new trams will include a multi-use area
  
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• London’s Pocket Parks: Virginia Gardens, E2

  11-09-2024 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  This small, neglected pocket park can be found just around the corner from the famous Columbia Road Flower Market in Tower Hamlets.Unsurprisingly, this particular plot of green was once housing, and in fact, it was some of the earliest housing to be laid out in this part of London when the area was first being developed.
  The rest of the fields were fully developed by the 1830s, with rows of tightly packed terraced housing. The area swiftly became famous for its poor conditions, lack of sanitatio
  
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