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So, whatever did happen to the No to Silvertown Tunnel campaign?

We fought the tunnel through the consultation and planning process

It’s 17 months since the Silvertown Tunnel was given planning approval by the secretary of state for transport. Since then, rather a lot has happened, but curiously, no digging has started – and the opening day for the tunnel slips further away.

Earlier this year, we decided to wind up our campaign. We began with a petition,…

Silvertown Tunnel approved: Sadiq Khan must think again, campaigners say

Traffic heading away from the Blackwall Tunnel regularly clogs up east and south-east London’s roads

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has today approved London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s plans to build the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road under the Thames from the Royal Docks to the Greenwich Peninsula.

The No to Silvertown Tunnelcampaign has been challenging these plans for nearly five years, conducting…

Silvertown Tunnel decision delayed again: Time for Sadiq Khan to show leadership and scrap this toxic tunnel

Pollution over the A102 on Thursday 2 November. This would be a key route to the Silvertown Tunnel The decision on whether the Silvertown Tunnel will be built has been delayed again – this time until May 2018 – to allow issues surrounding air quality to be considered further. We think this gives London mayor Sadiq Khan and his deputy mayor for transport, Val Shawcross, the ideal chance to show…

A decision on whether the Silvertown Tunnel will be built has been delayed until November to allow for further consideration of air quality issues. Today is six months since the end of the public examination into the scheme. An announcement had been due to be made this morning. But Transport Minister Paul Maynard has released a written statement to the House of Commons extending the deadline…

The Silvertown Tunnel planning examination is over – what happens next?

We’re coming to the end of Transport for London’s application to build the Silvertown Tunnel. The public examination into the scheme – effectively a fast-tracked planning inquiry – closed on 11 April. The inspectors have three months to give their recommendations to the Secretary of State for Transport, then we should get a final decision by early autumn. We’ve had volunteers present at most of…

Left: No to Silvertown Tunnel volunteer Ian Blore outside Meridian Primary School in Greenwich. Right: Our committee members Chris Taylor and Jill Austen in Peartree Way, also in Greenwich. Have you ever wondered just how pollution affects your neighbourhood? We’re offering local communities the funding to carry out their own air pollution tests in the New Year. Since 2013, the No to Silvertown…

What’s happening with the Silvertown Tunnel? A quick update…

Wednesday afternoon smog over the A102 heading away from the Blackwall Tunnel The public examination into Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Silvertown Tunnel proposals is in full swing. Here’s what we’re doing while all this is going on – and a couple of things you can do, too. Khan backed the Silvertown Tunnel after becoming mayor, but the final decision isn’t down to him. We’re now in a six-month process of…

Plans to regenerate areas like the Royal Docks are going ahead without spending £1 billion on a road tunnel What are you doing on Thursday 13 October? Come and share your views on the Silvertown Tunnel at the planning inquiry’s open public session at ExCeL in the Royal Docks. Now the planning process for the Silvertown Tunnel has got under way, there’s a lot of work for us to do – such as sifting…

A new tunnel feeding into this A102 southbound queue can only make congestion and pollution worse. Sadiq Khan’s backing for the Silvertown Tunnel is a betrayal of those who voted for him believing he would clean up London’s air, campaigners said today. The London mayor has announced he will support the £1bn project to create a new road tunnel between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Dock, after…

Terry was one of the volunteers who helped us with our first two pollution studies, putting up tubes like the one above We at No to Silvertown Tunnel were saddened to hear of the death of Terry Grant, who helped our campaign get off the ground and provided significant support to us. Terry GrantA former police sergeant, Terry was a lynchpin of the successful campaign to stop the Thames Gateway…

Got a few minutes spare? Here's how to tell the planning inspectors you don't want the Silvertown Tunnel

The Silvertown Tunnel will do nothing to stop queues like this, heading south to the Blackwall Tunnel at Bromley-by-Bow Your voice can help stop the Silvertown Tunnel – and you’ve got until the end of August to sign up as an objector to the scheme. Despite growing objections to the tunnel – from residents, politicians and campaign groups – London mayor Sadiq Khan has allowed the proposal to stay…

The South Circular as it enters Catford: we think polluting vehicles should be banned from here too Have you got 10 minutes free? If you do, then you can do something quick that’ll tell Sadiq Khan that if he takes air pollution seriously, he needs to scrap the Silvertown Tunnel. A few weeks ago, London’s mayor launched a consultation into what to do about our city’s air pollution problem. He has…

Join us at Lewisham @PeoplesDay in Mountsfield Park this Saturday

Last year’s Lewisham People’s Day in Mountsfield Park We’re pleased to announce we’ll be at south-east London’s biggest community festival on Saturday 9 July – so come and say hello to us at Lewisham People’s Day. The Silvertown Tunnel is as much a threat to Lewisham as it is to Greenwich, Newham or Tower Hamlets – generating more traffic and increasing congestion and pollution on roads such as…

Roads in Newham and Tower Hamlets will be flooded with new traffic from the Silvertown Tunnel We’re holding a public meeting in Canning Town on Thursday 9 June, and we’d love to see you there. TfL’s Silvertown Tunnel plans will dump new traffic in Silvertown, Canning Town and Poplar, providing a new route for HGVs to cross the river and add to pollution and congestion in communities close to its…

We’re launching a new petition today to demand new mayor Sadiq Khan withdraws the Silvertown Tunnel from the planning system ahead of his promised review of TfL’s river crossing schemes. During the election campaign, Mayor Khan pledged to look again at the proposals, acknowledging worries about the air pollution and congestion a new road crossing between the Royal Docks and Greenwich Peninsula…

The Silvertown Tunnel is no solution for the Blackwall Tunnel's failures #blackwalltunnel

The Blackwall Tunnel closure caused gridlock across south-east London – but a new tunnel at this point is not a serious solution to these problems It’s the nightmare that haunts hundreds of thousands of drivers. And it happened on Tuesday morning, right as the rush hour began. A mobile crane managed to shed a load of diesel and hydraulic fluid all over the northbound Blackwall Tunnel. Cue huge…

Congratulations to London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, on winning this month’s election. He’s been busy setting out his agenda, and we’ve been busy watching what he’s doing. TfL has been busy too. In the dying days of Boris Johnson’s administration, it submitted its planning application for the Silvertown Tunnel. Considering the terrible impact the tunnel would have on air quality, it was sadly…