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Thames Gateway chair hits out at ‘slow’ progress
13 March 2009
By Joey Gardiner
Former Dome chief Lord Falconer pins hopes on Crossrail and Olympics to kick-start programme
The peer who oversaw work on London’s Millennium Dome has branded progress on the Thames Gateway “disappointingly slow” on the eve of his return to involvement in the £9bn regeneration project.
Former lord chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton, who was in charge of the Thames Gateway programme between 2001 and 2002 as minister for housing and planning, has been appointed chair of the Thames Gateway London Partnership (TGLP), which is relaunching next week.
Falconer, who engineered the sale of the Millennium Dome to US entrepreneur Philip Anschutz in 2001, said he accepted there was private sector cynicism about the Gateway’s potential, due in part to the “great clutter of organisations” in the region and the 10 to 20-year timescale.
He said: “The importance of the Thames Gateway for London remains high, but progress has been disappointingly slow.”
However, he added that it was still possible to dispel cynicism about the project by starting to deliver on its aims to build 160,000 homes by 2016 and create 225,000 jobs.
He added: “Crossrail and the Olympics are a very major pair of projects which give us an opportunity that most parts of the country don’t have.”
The TGLP represents the 11 London boroughs inside the Gateway to national and London government. Falconer, whose appointment was announced last autumn, said the body will focus on core priorities such as skills, infrastructure and housing.
The chief executive of the government’s Thames Gateway Delivery Unit, Judith Armitt, was forced to leave in 2007 after a disagreement with then housing minister Yvette Cooper over the delivery plan for the programme.
Postscript :
For more on the Thames Gateway, visit www.building.co.uk/archive
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Friday, November 16, 2007
AADHIKARONLINE FROM THE HEART OF INNER CITIES UK IN THE EAST END OF LONDON DURING SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2007
By©Muhammad haque
0620 HRS GMT LONDON SATURDAY 17.11.2007
ITEMS TO BE REPORTED BY AADHIKARONLINE FROM THE HEART OF INNER CITIES UK IN THE EAST END OF LONDON DURING SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2007 INCLUDE THESE:-
1. what future the London e1 area generally and the street and neighbourhood associated with brick lane? how has the khoodeelaar! campaign and defence of the area has raised the image and focussed attention n the many aspects of the inner city uk today?
2. where is the democratic representation of the people in and of the east end of London in the uk institutions and what should be changed and how
3. .khoodeelaar! dissecting the latest CRASSRail lies done via the promotion of 'Thames gateway’ degeneration propaganda by the Gordon brown administration reacting to the very tame ‘criticism’ by a group of mps as published during Wednesday 14 November 2007.
4. The about-turn in the past 5 days by the misleadingly named ‘crisis’ ‘homeless’ ‘charity’ organisation [plausibly ‘head quartered’ in the London E1 area’ – which tactic by the 'Crisis' 'charity' is very deceptive indeed] over the high rise building planned in the middle of a community neighbourhood in Columbia road, Bethnal green just a week before a controversial ‘appeal’ was due t be heard via the ‘planning inspectorate’ – what underlay the apparent retreat? What lessons the east end community can learn from the events s far and how to defend the community from the dangerous ‘planning’ takeover of the east end of London. We examine the campaign against the Trojan horse style bid to date and as look at the repeated ‘failures’ by the ‘cal’ newspaper the ‘east London Idiotiser’ to report the key facts – is there a hidden agenda that has so far prevented the facts from being reported n the pages of the ‘east London Idiotiser’?
5. Khoodeelaar! Campaign updates
[To be continued]
0620 HRS GMT LONDON SATURDAY 17.11.2007
ITEMS TO BE REPORTED BY AADHIKARONLINE FROM THE HEART OF INNER CITIES UK IN THE EAST END OF LONDON DURING SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2007 INCLUDE THESE:-
1. what future the London e1 area generally and the street and neighbourhood associated with brick lane? how has the khoodeelaar! campaign and defence of the area has raised the image and focussed attention n the many aspects of the inner city uk today?
2. where is the democratic representation of the people in and of the east end of London in the uk institutions and what should be changed and how
3. .khoodeelaar! dissecting the latest CRASSRail lies done via the promotion of 'Thames gateway’ degeneration propaganda by the Gordon brown administration reacting to the very tame ‘criticism’ by a group of mps as published during Wednesday 14 November 2007.
4. The about-turn in the past 5 days by the misleadingly named ‘crisis’ ‘homeless’ ‘charity’ organisation [plausibly ‘head quartered’ in the London E1 area’ – which tactic by the 'Crisis' 'charity' is very deceptive indeed] over the high rise building planned in the middle of a community neighbourhood in Columbia road, Bethnal green just a week before a controversial ‘appeal’ was due t be heard via the ‘planning inspectorate’ – what underlay the apparent retreat? What lessons the east end community can learn from the events s far and how to defend the community from the dangerous ‘planning’ takeover of the east end of London. We examine the campaign against the Trojan horse style bid to date and as look at the repeated ‘failures’ by the ‘cal’ newspaper the ‘east London Idiotiser’ to report the key facts – is there a hidden agenda that has so far prevented the facts from being reported n the pages of the ‘east London Idiotiser’?
5. Khoodeelaar! Campaign updates
[To be continued]
"Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign. Khoodeelaar! defends the community in the East End of London against the Crossrail hole attacks.
By©Muhammad haque
0620 HRS GMT LONDON SATURDAY 17.11.2007
ITEMS TO BE REPORTED BY AADHIKARONLINE FROM THE HEART OF INNER CITIES UK IN THE EAST END OF LONDON DURING SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2007 INCLUDE THESE:-
1. what future the London e1 area generally and the street and neighbourhood associated with brick lane? how has the khoodeelaar! campaign and defence of the area has raised the image and focussed attention n the many aspects of the inner city uk today?
2. where is the democratic representation of the people in and of the east end of London in the uk institutions and what should be changed and how
3. .khoodeelaar! dissecting the latest CRASSRail lies done via the promotion of 'Thames gateway’ degeneration propaganda by the Gordon brown administration reacting to the very tame ‘criticism’ by a group of mps as published during Wednesday 14 November 2007.
4. The about-turn in the past 5 days by the misleadingly named ‘crisis’ ‘homeless’ ‘charity’ organisation [plausibly ‘head quartered’ in the London E1 area’ – which is very deceptive indeed] over the high rise building planned in the middle of a community neighbourhood in Columbia road, Bethnal green just a week before a controversial ‘appeal’ was due t be heard via the ‘planning inspectorate’ – what underlay the apparent retreat? What lessons the east end community can learn from the events s far and how to defend the community from the dangerous ‘planning’ takeover of the east end of London. We examine the campaign against the Trojan horse style bid to date and as look at the repeated ‘failures’ by the ‘cal’ newspaper the ‘east London Idiotiser’ to report the key facts – is there a hidden agenda that has so far prevented the facts from being reported n the pages of the ‘east London Idiotiser’?
5. Khoodeelaar! Campaign updates
[To be continued]
0620 HRS GMT LONDON SATURDAY 17.11.2007
ITEMS TO BE REPORTED BY AADHIKARONLINE FROM THE HEART OF INNER CITIES UK IN THE EAST END OF LONDON DURING SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2007 INCLUDE THESE:-
1. what future the London e1 area generally and the street and neighbourhood associated with brick lane? how has the khoodeelaar! campaign and defence of the area has raised the image and focussed attention n the many aspects of the inner city uk today?
2. where is the democratic representation of the people in and of the east end of London in the uk institutions and what should be changed and how
3. .khoodeelaar! dissecting the latest CRASSRail lies done via the promotion of 'Thames gateway’ degeneration propaganda by the Gordon brown administration reacting to the very tame ‘criticism’ by a group of mps as published during Wednesday 14 November 2007.
4. The about-turn in the past 5 days by the misleadingly named ‘crisis’ ‘homeless’ ‘charity’ organisation [plausibly ‘head quartered’ in the London E1 area’ – which is very deceptive indeed] over the high rise building planned in the middle of a community neighbourhood in Columbia road, Bethnal green just a week before a controversial ‘appeal’ was due t be heard via the ‘planning inspectorate’ – what underlay the apparent retreat? What lessons the east end community can learn from the events s far and how to defend the community from the dangerous ‘planning’ takeover of the east end of London. We examine the campaign against the Trojan horse style bid to date and as look at the repeated ‘failures’ by the ‘cal’ newspaper the ‘east London Idiotiser’ to report the key facts – is there a hidden agenda that has so far prevented the facts from being reported n the pages of the ‘east London Idiotiser’?
5. Khoodeelaar! Campaign updates
[To be continued]
"Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign. Khoodeelaar! defends the community in the East End of London against the Crossrail hole attacks.
"Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign. Khoodeelaar! defends the community in the East End of London against the Crossrail hole attacks. The area includes Brick Lane, Whitechapel, and Stepney London E1. This is the experience of the past almost 4 years of the Khoodeelaar! campaign [so far] against CrossRail. ..."
extracted from Khoodeelaar! statement on the Crossrail hole-backing role of the 'local' Tower Hamlets Council, October 2007
extracted from Khoodeelaar! statement on the Crossrail hole-backing role of the 'local' Tower Hamlets Council, October 2007
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