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Great Suffolk Street to host London's first Open Streets event

After a couple of false starts last year, Southwark will this month host London's first Open Streets event.

Tweets on 18 May 2015

Here's a Storify of our tweets from the @TCOSLondon #GardenBridge meeting this evening https://t.co/Rl3xxHns9i

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Dickens_Estate Dickens Festival 15 Aug on the Dickens Estate Riverside pic.twitter.com/GvdkDD4rJv

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Elephant & Castle subway mural picture of the day pic.twitter.com/2g5Y6GB5U1

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Whether you agree with them or not, @TCOSLondon have done amazing job assembling v broad anti coalition & huge public interest

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Don't think there has been such a turnout for a meeting about any development controversy in Waterloo for many years.

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And that's it from the meeting

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Residents of the Coin Street housing co-operatives are meeting at London Nautical School next week re

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Michael Ball urging people to lobby their MP re - not just a local issue as £30m is coming from HM Treasury

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Lambeth's @P_McGlone will take decision tomorrow on whether to start negotiations with & @CoinStreet re South Bank land

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opponents at meeting being urged to text Lambeth's cllr @P_McGlone urging him not to agree lease for South Bank land

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Lambeth Council could stop by not giving lease to the bridge trust for South Bank land

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Land ownership of South Bank side of being explained. See our story here about Lambeth Council role: london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8240

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The judicial review will be heard at High Court on 10 and 11 June, Michael Ball announces

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Campaign against : "This is one we can win, and we have to win" says @natalieben (Green leader)

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South Bank has "great history" of resisting developers says @natalieben - urges people to fight: "The case is just so strong"

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"If I get the chance of being mayor, I will stop instantly" says @wolmarforlondon (running for Lab mayoral nomination)

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Christian Wolmar @wolmarforlondon reminds audience that Heatherwick also designed the Boris bus - also "wasteful" project

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Over 30 mature trees will be felled to make way for , @CarolinePidgeon reminds the audience

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RT @darryl1974: Final 15 mins of streaming from anti- #GardenBridge meeting at http://t.co/TrvZ9IpwED

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Criticism from the floor of @CoinStreet Community Builders support for

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Chair of Lambeth parks forum points out the savage cuts to borough's open space budget under proposals

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longitude0 @se1 @CarolinePidgeon On p 214 of June "Country Living" magazine, Joanna Lumley refers to it as "my Garden Bridge project" ...

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There's been an "obscene lack of scrutiny" of plans says @isaby of @the_tpa

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Now @isaby of @the_tpa says will be a "grotesque white elephant"

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Boris said that opponents have "Taliban-like hatred of objects of beauty" - quoted by @CarolinePidgeon

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Here's Joanna Lumley's handwritten note to Boris Johnson just mentioned by @CarolinePidgeon at #GardenBridge meeting: http://t.co/mpWUphLeDV

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@CarolinePidgeon says she has "real reservations" about the selection process which chose Heatherwick to design bridge

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South Bank resident says that the noise from the borehole rig in the Thames is already unbearable pic.twitter.com/AzrMz8yOA7

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Bridge designer Cezary Bednarski : "fails on every single count" - "ungainly" + not functional

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Bridge engineer says that Trust claim that they HAVE to start before the is built is bogus

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"a private garden platform pretending to be public bridge" says expert bridge engineer

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@DamianWild To be fair was billed as an anti bridge meeting, not a debate on the pros and cons

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CarolinePidgeon Superb to see so many people at the community meeting against the Garden Bridge inc @mariaadderley @Juvelad pic.twitter.com/btqZbKwXFm

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Green leader @natalieben on : "This is going to be a really important battle on a huge scale about the future of London"

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Phil Marson of Inner London Ramblers - "The Ramblers Association in London is against this bridge" - will spoil @TheThamesPath & views

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raheli01 @TCOSLondon Iroko housing co-op sharing their views about the Garden Bridge pic.twitter.com/D3Pz3yt6I4

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Andrew Richardson says the is a shopfront to sell the concept to other cities around the world

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Gavin Stamp: Heatherwick's has "banal and ponderous" design

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Writer Gavin Stamp: "the whole point about the Thames is that it's a river, not a garden"

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WHurst1 Packed meeting on tonight in Waterloo. Cross party condemnation of scheme pic.twitter.com/aaUpaznQRa

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"will not work for anybody other than those who were at the dinner party where it was dreamed up" says @ValShawcross

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"This is very much a Boris project" says @ValShawcross - doesn't know any TfL officers who are keen on it.

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will spoil "gorgeous ... sweeping vista" of the Thames says @ValShawcross

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"proposal has not come from any strategic thinking" says @ValShawcross - much more sense to put bridge further east or west

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South Bank already "like Oxford Street" at peak times says @ValShawcross - projected post increase "completely unacceptable"

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South Bank residents most affected by are part "real residential community with longstanding links" says @ValShawcross

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Next @ValShawcross explains she submitted 6-page objection to planning application - says she tries to take a measured view

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Now Cllr @jenwrenmosley says crowds will make it like New Year's Eve every day

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Cllr @jenwrenmosley says Bishop's ward used to have lowest crime in Lambeth - now it's the highest due to tourism boom

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Resident @claresolomon73 worried that trust isn't democratically accountable despite huge public funds

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Clare Solomon - @OxoTowerWharf resident - says it's a disgrace to put £60m public money toe when hundreds of TfL jobs being cut

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Gillian Melling: "I feel so strongly that river is for all Londoners" - views, space etc - "gaudy" is embarrassing to London

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Local resident Gillian Melling says South Bank already "really unpleasant" at times due to overcrowding - will make it worse

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- "public money = public spaces, that's what we should be saying" says @natalieben

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amounts to "privatisation" of the River Thames says @natalieben

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Applause for @natalieben as she raises the privatisation of public spaces - patrolled by wardens enforcing no-picnic rule

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Green leader @natalieben: is "very literal form of greenwash"; supposed environmental benefits "don't stack up"

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Now guerrilla gardener @Richard_001 says he is "dead against" the - will put too much pressure on TfL

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RT @darryl1974: If you want to hear the anti- #GardenBridge meeting, I'm streaming audio at http://t.co/TrvZ9IpwED

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will be as crowded every day as the Chelsea Flower Show, warns Hugh Johnson

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Hugh Johnson: "on a bridge in the middle of the river the horticultural possibilities are ... limited"

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Hugh Johnson @littlestjames of Metropolitan Public Garden Association - - it's not a bridge and not a garden either

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Michael Ball shows pics of the grass and trees on South Bank that will be removed for

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Instead of £30m toe TfL should give £30k each to lots of small scale greening projects in London streets say@wolmarforlondonon

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The business plan is a "dishonest document" written to meet pre-set agenda, @wolmarforlondon tells meeting

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"doesn't help London become a better connected city" says @wolmarforlondon - it's a "vanity project"

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Now @wolmarforlondon: - "This is not a bridge - it is a garden plonked in the middle of a river"

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Man from CTC London says that is waste of time - footfall will be so high that garden will be in the way

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darryl1974 Live audio from anti- meeting at St John's, Waterloo mixlr.com/darryl1974

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@branchenergy of @StopKillingCycl echoes the concerns that so much public money is being spent on river crossing w no cycling

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Now hearing from @annkenrick - chair of @london_cycling Campaign - extremely concerned that no provision for cycling on

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RT @darryl1974: Already very busy at #GardenBridge protest meeting at Waterloo. http://t.co/yKEUcXo7oa

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Jason_Cobb Decent turn out for @TCOSLondon meeting pic.twitter.com/L5cbV3hEJX

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proposal also discussed in Joanna Lumley's 2004 autobiography

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Michael Ball is explaining that proposal goes back to 1998 when J Lumley proposed Diana memorial bridge.

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At least 200 people at public meeting.

Chaired by Tim Wood.

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Panel at anti meeting includes Green leader @natalieben, Labour's @ValShawcross @wolmarforlondon and Lib Dem @CarolinePidgeon

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Big turnout of people unhappy about the Garden Bridge at @TCOSLondon meeting in @stjohnswaterloo pic.twitter.com/hO8iFq9n3M

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Queue to get in to the @TCOSLondon anti Garden Bridge public meeting at @stjohnswaterloo pic.twitter.com/cOTy30LA9p

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Aerial footage of County Hall, South Bank & Westminster in 1982: https://t.co/X9f1WMccR9

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Tour guides picket Shakespeare’s Globe in first London theatre strike since 1977 https://t.co/ngq1mOLK2R via @thestage

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Just published - Five hours of car-free fun in Great Suffolk Street with @OpenStreetsLDN goo.gl/fb/ocpzZ5

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OXO lettering at @OxoTowerWharf will be replaced with LOL tomorrow for @jennyeclair's in aid of @macmillancancer @npowerhq

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RT @wolmarforlondon: Delighted to be on the panel at anti-Garden Bridge event at St John's Church, Waterloo Road tonight.An outrageous way …

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tuppenwaterloo Stop the Garden Bridge meeting tonight 7pm pic.twitter.com/0W2SQAojWe

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RT @rosannadownes: Impressive line up for tonight's public meeting on the garden bridge, including @london_cycling chair @annkenrick: http:…

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RT @ThamesBaths: .@Kickstarter campaign finishes 22/05. Every £1 helps us, to help LDN towards floating #lido. https://t.co/Es9C7AwKTs http…

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RT @SimplyMrPerfect: @StolenRide black Apollo Highway, w silver pannier frame. Stolen Webber St SE1 night of 17/5. Info most appreciated ht…

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Four sculptures of horses proposed for Thames foreshore at Albert Embankment by @TotallyThames http://t.co/2DnWL5W8LB

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Garden Bridge access should be charged via Oyster card system argues Paul Finch: http://t.co/B7H6XIyfsF

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Garden Bridge being "pushed through with a combination of bullying and schmooze" says @rowanmoore: http://t.co/B7H6XIyfsF

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What @boroughmarket looked like 15 years ago in the early days of the weekend retail market pic.twitter.com/zPL15BHlZM

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Win a family ticket to Adventures in Wonderland @AliceUnderLDN in The Vaults at Waterloo: http://t.co/BmOxLpYf6c

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TfLTrafficNews London Bridge - Lane one northbound blocked by a vehicle.

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KenningtonPOB What progress is being made with the Cycle Hub at Waterloo, announced in 2009 and 2012? london-se1.co.uk/news/view/5947

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stuartensor Filming a on the Thames for @Airbnb_uk pic.twitter.com/h7M2WwpN8M

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StarEventsLtd Has anybody else spotted the on the Thames? @StarEventsLtd has! pic.twitter.com/sNn7OSUsAM

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curtisprofits Floating house on the Thames, courtesy of @Airbnb_uk. That's one way to reduce the electricity bill. pic.twitter.com/ysheNt2Q6q

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chazwut The just went past my window. Cue office pandemonium. pic.twitter.com/Y1u5EnN8rc

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KeltieLLP Just another normal day on the Thames! Guess this counts as a flood risk area? @se1 pic.twitter.com/WBRETeGRSY

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RT @peterwalker99: Meeting tonight opposing Garden Bridge includes such disparate types as Labour, @london_cycling & @the_tpa http://t.co/t…

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RT @isaby: I'm on a cross-party panel at St Johns Waterloo tonight opposing the proposed Garden Bridge. See here for details: http://t.co/9…

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Strong lineup of guests/speakers for tonight's anti Garden Bridge public meeting organised by @TCOSLondon: http://t.co/Z0eviyUhp4

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Tour guides at Shakespeare's Globe are on strike today bectu.org.uk/news/2395

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[Job vacancy] Volunteering and Events Coordinator, Bankside Open Spaces Trust @bostse1: http://t.co/DimD09yFN1

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ICYMI - last night's James Bond filming on the Thames - london-se1.co.uk/news/view/8269

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