Those opposed to the tall buildings approved for Hammersmith are gathering on the Thames path outside City Hall on Wednesday 14 December at 10am.
The plans approved by Hammersmith & Fulham Council will spoil the skyline from the Thames Path. SOS, Save Our Skyline campaign, is appealing to the Mayor of London Boris Johnson to use his power to call in the scheme.
It is understood that he may be making the decision tomorrow following the Mayor’s Questions session in the chamber .
The Thames Path running under Blackfriars Railway Bridge reopened during the night.
The bridge now carries platforms from bank to bank and today the station’s new Bankside entrance opened at 5am.
The station entrance is now on the Thames Path.
See the story on the London SE1 website.
Permission has been given for a tall building which will breach the Hammersmith skyline when viewed from the towpath.
Full details of the continued campaign are here.
HMS Belfast, moored in the Pool of London, has been closed to the public after the gangway plunged into the river at lunchtime on Tuesday.
The Thames Path outside Southwark Crown Court was closed to enable emergency vehicles to be brought to the riverside.
Visitors on board the ship had to be ferried to the nearby pier.
See London SE1 report.
The Thames Path route will return to the riverside at Bankside next Monday 5 December.
From early morning it will be possible to walk from in front of Tate Modern to Oxo Tower Wharf without leaving the waterside.
Thameslink railworks have for some time forced walkers to go inland into Southwark Street.
The new access to Blackfriars Station from the south bank opens on the same day.
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Proposals for the new Thames Tunnel to intercept untreated sewage overflows have raised construction problems.
The west to east underground route is roughly below the River Thames with access points.
The good news is that revised plans for the works leave the Thames Path largely untouched.
Worksites on the key right bank (or south) have been moved or even set back from the river.
So, for example, the towpath at Barn Elms is now unaffected.
The biggest objections have been downstream of Tower Bridge where the green grass of King’s Stairs Garden at Rotherhithe was to have been closed for some time. Now the work will be just upstream on Chambers Wharf. This is a ‘brownfield’ site so far not opened up to the Thames Path.
At present the wharf is built out into the river but after tunnel work is complete the wharf would be reduced in size with provision for the Thames Path. This must be a good decision even if some local people are opposing it.
There are two worksites off Nine Elms Lane but the Thames Path will still briefly return to the river at Tideway Walk by Nine Elms Pier.
Southwark Council has removed the statue of Dr Salter’s daughter and the cat on the river wall for safety.
Last weekend the sculpture of Dr Alfred Salter was stolen overnight.
Meanwhile the council is offering a reward for the return of the much-loved figure.
Anyone with news of the whereabouts of the sculpture should phone 020 7525 1501.
Darryl of Greenwich has the latest news on the peninsula’s western path between the Dome (O2) and Greenwich.
Southwark Council leader Peter John has confirmed that the Alfred Salter sculpture has been stolen and not just removed for maintenance.
If anyone has any news of its whereabouts let us know.
Disturbing news that the much-loved Dr Alfred Salter statue on the path between Rotherhithe and Tower Bridge may have been stolen.
It was not there last night and local opinion is that it was been stolen.
Dr Salter was the local doctor and MP in the first half of the 20th century who pioneered better living conditions.
I believe that his daughter and cat sculptures are safe so far.