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• Golf club to tennis courts: Wimbledon’s controversial expansion wins approval

  27-09-2024 20:45 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A controversial plan to substantially enlage a public park in southwest London by taking land from a golf club has been approved by two councils and a Deputy Mayor for London.
  The reason you might not have immediately recognised the news is that it’s the golf club next to the Wimbledon tennis courts, and the remainder of the golf club will be turned into a large expansion of the tennis courts.
  Rough map of the current usage
  Rough map of the approved site
  The aim is to avoid the need to use
  
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• The London Buzz – 27th September 2024

  27-09-2024 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Today’s London news round-up:
  A well-loved city farm in Merton has been saved from closure after community donations raised £50,000 in just 48 hours. SW Londoner
  Developers ‘pause’ plans for shopping ‘pavilion’ at Coal Drops Yard Camden New Journal
  Graham Norton reveals he was stabbed and ‘left for dead’ in London street (in 1989) Joe
  Lambeth Council has classified seven out of ten of its major policy areas as being at “major” risk lev
  
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• V&A Museum planning £4 million revamp of its South Asia galleries

  27-09-2024 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  The V&A Museum has announced plans for a £4 million revamp of its South Asia Gallery that could see an important Indian ceiling that’s been in storage for 70 years put on display again.
  Panel from the Kochi ceiling depicting Shiva. (c) V&A Museum
  The Kochi Ceiling is a painted and carved 19th-century wooden temple ceiling from South India that was on display in the Eastern Galleries until they were demolished in 1955. Since then, the ceiling has been in storage, unseen by any
  
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• Westminster Abbey corrects Brontë Sisters’ memorial mistake – 85 years after it was made

  27-09-2024 11:35 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A mistake on Westminster Abbey’s memorial to the Brontë sisters has been driving a researcher a bit dotty since it was spotted, and now, it’s been fixed.
  Stonemason Mark Croll correcting the memorial (c) Westminster Abbey / David Jacobson
  The Brontë memorial was installed in Poets Corner on 8th October 1939 without much ceremony as it was on the outbreak of WWII. Paul de Labilliere, then Dean of Westminster, wrote in a letter to The Times that “I should greatly wish t
  
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• Historic WWII bunker faces demolition for new hotel

  27-09-2024 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A WWII command bunker could be demolished and replaced with a hotel, if planning permission is granted to the building’s owner.
  Surface buildings above Oxgate Admiralty Citadel (c) ianVisits
  Known as the Oxgate Admiralty Citadel, the deep level bunker was built between 1937 and 1940 as a command bunker for the Royal Navy as a backup in case they needed to evacuate their Whitehall bunker.
  North London was used for several reserve bunkers, with Paddock, a fairly modest walk away in Dollis Hi
  
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• The satellite spectrum battle that could shape the new space economy

  27-09-2024 06:00
  Elon Musk’s SpaceX is pushing to loosen power limits on transmissions in low Earth orbit, a move that some fear could give upstart US operators more power
  
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