**Minutes of the STRA AGM 2020 are here. **
The Council has begun work on upgrading the whole street lighting network in the Shad Thames area. This is a strand of the wider Streets Project that has been in the works since 2017. (The project is on hold during the Covid pandemic).
The current lighting, which has reached the end of its life, will be upgraded or replaced with more sustainable and efficient systems which will reduce carbon emissions and save on energy and maintenance costs. The project is still scheduled to complete by the end of March 2021. Here is the Council’s latest update.
During the build temporary lighting may be installed so as to make sure the area is well lit and safe for movement. This will be used sparingly and for the shortest time possible.
3 December 2020
The Tide Line – an evocative landscape designed by Ludwig Willis Architects with Structure Workshop and Howard Miller Landscape and Design – has been revealed as the winning concept in the LFA and Butler’s Wharf Riverside Trust’s ‘Reimagining Butler’s Wharf’ competition.
Full details here:
https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/competition-winner-revealed-reimagining-butlers-wharf/
STRA has supported BWRT in principle and through financial contributions since its inception. The announcement of the winner is a major step forward for this project.
You can also follow BWRT on Twitter (@bwriverside) and on Instagram (@butlerswharfriverside) and visit their website: www.butlerswharfriverside.org
We get a number of queries about the trees that have been removed from Curlew Street in the last 12 months.
The Council's Arboricultural Services have, of January 2021, replaced four trees on this section of Curlew Street.
STRA held a meeting regarding EWS1 regulations on 12 November. A note of the meeting is opposite.
At the Council Assembly Ordinary Meeting Wednesday 25 November 202 07.00 pm there was the following motion:
MOTION FROM COUNCILLOR HUMAIRA ALI (Seconded by Councillor Graham Neale)
End our cladding, external wall fire review formEWS1 and snagging scandal
See p23.
Following the meeting Cll Humaira Ali tweeted:
The Government clarified the EWS1 Regulations on 21 November. See the press release below.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-steps-in-to-help-homeowners-caught-up-in-ews1-process
St John’s Churchyard has re-opened following a programme of upgrade works to the Park, carried out by Potters Fields Park Management Trust.
Full details along with images can be found here:
If you are troubled by noise
nuisance, the document opposite gives some advice from our local Councillors.
In addition it always helps to log your issue with STRA - just click here for more details.
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In order for the Police to have an accurate picture of anti-social behaviour in our local area, please use the link below for reporting anything you see:
https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/asb/asb/report-antisocial-behaviour/
At the STRA AGM a question was asked about what can be done about helicopter noise in the area.
Anood, our local Councillor, contacted Caroline Pidgeon at the GLA, and received the following reply. Anood will follow up in the New Year.
You will see from the links below that this is a problem that is receiving London-wide attention.
"Caroline will indeed ask some Mayoral Questions in the New Year, however in the meantime I thought this information from her website might be useful.
http://www.carolinepidgeon.org/node/1019
Caroline also asked a couple of written Mayoral Questions back in September. I thought they might be useful.
http://questions.london.gov.uk/QuestionSearch/searchclient/questions/question_289305
http://questions.london.gov.uk/QuestionSearch/searchclient/questions/question_289304
I also enclose a written Parliamentary Question asked by Tom Brake:
http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2016-09-15/46592
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Mark Morris
Office of Caroline Pidgeon AM
Liberal Democrat London Assembly Member
City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London SE1 2AA
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