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Living Bankside
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Most of the information on these pages predates the COVID-19 emergency. Please check before relying on any specific details.For more than 10 years Living Bankside has been bringing together residents and Southwark's MP, councillors, officials, local interest groups and developers.
Everyone has been working to ensure that Borough and Bankside is not only a beautiful, exciting, vibrant place but is as well-designed and well-built as it possibly can be - a place where people are happy and eager to live.
Members of Living Bankside (it's free) receive regular invitations to Open Forum meetings and newsletters highlighting key issues in the area.
Web: www.livingbankside.orgNews & features about Living Bankside
- Minerva House: riverside offices to be extended 6 June 2023
- Marion's Way: Gambia Street Garden named after Marion Marples 23 October 2021
- Green light for expansion of Bankside's Hilton hotel 19 October 2021
- Bankside's Great Get Together reinvented as marathon radio show 29 June 2020
- TfL's Southwark Street development gets the green light 18 June 2020
- Decision day looms for TfL's Southwark Street development 13 June 2020
- London Bridge terrorist attack victims remembered three years on 3 June 2020
- Bermondsey & Old Southwark candidates face the public at hustings 11 December 2019
- Vauxhall candidates face Waterloo voters at SE1 hustings 4 December 2019
- Vigils held to remember Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones 2 December 2019
- London Bridge attack: second anniversary commemorated 3 June 2019
- Marion Marples 1950-2019 7 May 2019
- Save the RV1: locals march on City Hall to show support for bus 25 February 2019
- 35 homes for TfL Southwark Street site where Sadiq pledged 120 12 February 2019
- Bankside Cycle Club to receive TfL funding 22 January 2019
- Interview with Nick Stanton, Southwark Lib Dem leader 21 April 2006
- Obituary: Eric Tucker 18 January 2006
- Bankside travel group launched 15 November 2005
- Residents propose re-routing of Thameslink to save Borough Market 18 October 2005
- Concern over Cathedral's plan to build alongside community garden 8 June 2005
- Tate Modern hoardings brightened up by EDF Energy 24 October 2004
- Tower block proposed for Park Street 16 October 2004
- First picture of Blackfriars Road tower 10 September 2004
- Celebrating 100 years of Nelson Square Garden 4 July 2004
- Big Bankside Information Day 4 September 2003
- Southwark shows off goods seized from illegal traders 4 September 2003
- Borough Market wins London Tourism Award 19 August 2003
- Better Bankside launches website 23 January 2003
- Canon Helen to be Archdeacon 11 September 2002
- Southwark Jubliation 10 June 2002
- Golden Jubilee events in SE1 - complete guide 29 May 2002
Forum discussions about Living Bankside
- Ocean Diva
- Linden Homes Blackfriars Road development (was: Garages on Pocock Street)
- Have your say about Great Suffolk Street
- Pulse
- Southwark Council Planning Department
- Playing bridge in SE1
- Could Borough High Street be more pleasant?
- Bankside Residents Forum
- Improving Borough High Street
- Thameslink 2000 @ Borough Market & Blackfriars
- Coin Street's plan for 48-storey tower - a betrayal of their founding principles?
- All Hallows Church, Copperfield Street
- Southwark Planning
- Skyscraper next to Christ Church
- 1 Blackfriars Road [Beetham Tower/Jumeirah Hotel]
- Caesars OKR
- Development and Planning legislation
- 56 Southwark Bridge Road
- DO-GOODING
- St Christopher's House
- COMMUNITY GROUPS
- Victims of gentrification
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