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• The London Buzz – 11th April 2025

  11-04-2025 18:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Today’s London news round-up:
  Lambeth Council is preparing to spend at least £120,000 on a new strategy to reshape the heart of Brixton — complete with ‘reimagined’ streets, more car-free days, and a ‘public realm framework’. Brixton Buzz
  Hackney Council is to review all blue badge applications it has rejected since last year after a watchdog found its assessments have gone against government guidelines. Hackney Citizen
  A new report supported by some of
  
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• Gas boilers now biggest source of air pollution in central London, study shows

  11-04-2025 13:28 via ianvisits.co.uk
  The reduction in road vehicle pollution since ULEZ was introduced in central London has a side effect: it’s easier to identify where the rest of London’s pollution is coming from.
  Until recently, road pollution was so high that it effectively drowned out all the other sources of pollution in London’s air, but a bit like the tide going out, it’s much easier to see what’s left behind when you remove the road vehicles.
  A new study by the University of York has revealed
  
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• Tickets Alert: The ballot to visit 10 Downing Street’s garden has opened

  11-04-2025 11:02 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Each year, the private gardens at the back of 10 Downing Street are opened to the public for a tour, and the ballot for tickets has opened today.
  Photo by Jordhan Madec on Unsplash
  The Downing Street tours are organised by London Open Gardens, a weekend where over a hundred of London’s private gardens are open for the public to look around.
  Tickets for London Open Gardens are on sale now, and a ticket gets you into all the gardens on their list — except 10 Downing Streetm which is fr
  
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• HS2’s northwest London portal designed to eliminate sonic booms from high speed trains

  11-04-2025 10:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Contractors building the HS2 railway have completed work on a pair of innovative extensions to the southern portal of its longest tunnel to eliminate the possibility of ‘sonic boom’ being created by high-speed trains entering the tunnel at up to 200mph.
  (c) HS2
  The structures, built at the southern end of the railway’s 10-mile Chiltern Tunnel next to the M25 motorway are nearly identical to those now under construction at its northern portal in Buckinghamshire.
  All trains enter
  
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