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Adele – what she's singing about on 25

Edit The Guardian 19 Nov 2015
River Lea ... The Lea rises near Luton and flows south, though north east London, to the Thames, passing through Tottenham, where Adele grew up. Its valley is symbolic of the changes to London across the centuries – in the 17th century, a manmade tributary of the Lea, the New River, was made to divert clean drinking water to London; this century, the lower Lea Valley was completely reshaped for the 2012 Olympics....

Mayor launches ‘City in the East’ masterplan (Greater London Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Oct 2015
(Source. Greater London Authority). The Mayor of London Boris Johnson today (22 October) released a new framework that aims to transform East London and deliver more than 200,000 homes and 250,000 jobs ... In 2004, the Mayor's Office estimated East London had the capacity for 52,000 new homes ... Maps are available here. https.//www.flickr.com/photos/mayorspressoffice/ ... - Ends - ... Upper Lea Valley 20,000 15,000 ... Lower Lea Valley 32,000 50,000....

New book questions legacy of London 2012 (Leeds Metropolitan University)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Oct 2015
(Source. Leeds Metropolitan University). A new book asking probing questions of the 2012 London Olympic Games has been published by a Leeds Beckett University researcher. In his book, 'The London Olympics of 2012 ... There is a big downside to the contemporary Olympic Games and problems have been growing since the 1980s ... The losers were the people who lived in and around the Lower Lea Valley, who lost their homes, businesses and open spaces....

The Ginger line: Iain Sinclair on the London Overground

Edit The Guardian 13 Jun 2015
Might the secret of the new London be revealed tracking the circuit of the railway for a single day – or just a large number of artisan bakeries?. The London Overground leaves Dalston Junction station. Photograph. Joel Knight/Arcaid/Corbis. Iain Sinclair. Saturday 13 June 2015 09.00 BST ... Ford had worked, walked and self-published reports from east London’s lower Lea Valley, home of the Olympics ... Walkers navigate by sound ... Related ... popular ... ....

Laing O'Rourke forms powerful joint venture for HS2 (Laing O’Rourke plc)

Edit noodls 01 Jun 2015
(Source. Laing O’Rourke plc). 01 June 2015. Major construction companies Laing O'Rourke, FCC Construcción and Murphy form joint venture to bid for future HS2 contracts ... Joint venture partners background ... J ... J ... Other major projects have included the Lower Lea Valley Cable Tunnels project for the Olympic Village, the Thames Tunnels for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, major power cable tunnels and infrastructure for National Grid and EDF Energy....

The Line: East London's new modern art walk

Edit The Daily Telegraph 22 May 2015
It’s been a busy week for art handlers in East London’s Lower Lea Valley. Today, the last of eight new sculptures will be lowered into place on The Line, a new three-mile walking and cycling trail stretching from the Greenwich Peninsula to Stratford ... Perhaps more importantly, one section of the Lower Lea is still blocked off, as is one bridge, and both will probably remain so for some time....

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra’s First Tour to Europe Together Serves as Foundation for Shared Economic and Cultural Exchange read more (Philadelphia Orchestra)

Edit noodls 12 May 2015
(Source. Philadelphia Orchestra) ... The Orchestra partners with Water City CIC, a new neighborhood in East London that brings together the businesses and residents that call the seven-mile network of rivers, canals, and docks across the Lower Lea Valley home ... The Philadelphia Orchestra continues its decades-long tradition of presenting learning and community engagement opportunities for listeners of all ages across the Delaware Valley....

Barbican Film: September 2014 highlights (Barbican Centre)

Edit noodls 30 Jul 2014
Following the critical success of their first 'cinematic hymn to London' (Observer), Finisterre in 2002, three years later the filmmaking collective was invited by the Barbican to create a film set in the future site of the Olympic games - the east end's Lower Lea Valley ... The greenhorn here is fisherman Julio who arrives in Manila looking for his girlfriend, and is soon plumbing the city's lower depths....

Pioneering care service reaches north Hertfordshire (Hertfordshire County Council)

Edit noodls 22 Jul 2014
(Source. Hertfordshire County Council). A new rapid response service to help people stay well and independent comes to north Hertfordshire from 22 July 2014 ... HomeFirst brings together health and social care services to deliver ... The new service in north Hertfordshire builds on a HomeFirst scheme in the Lower Lea Valley area which has been running since November 2012 with excellent feedback from staff, GPs and people using the service....

Working together for better health and social care (Hertfordshire County Council)

Edit noodls 31 Mar 2014
Dr Nicolas Small, chair of Herts Valleys CCG, said ... Plans agreed by the Health and Wellbeing Board will build on innovative work already undertaken in the county.  This includes Homefirst provided by Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust and the county council.  Homefirst is a rapid response service coordinating care and support for patients in their own homes in the Hertsmere and Lower Lea Valley areas....

Agreement to acquire first site in London for Private Rented Sector Portfolio (Sigma Capital Group plc)

Edit noodls 10 Feb 2014
(Source. Sigma Capital Group plc) Agreement to acquire first site in London for Private Rented Sector Portfolio. Monday, February 10, 2014. AIM. SGM ... Announces ... The Barking Riverside development is a major new neighbourhood being created alongside two kilometres of Thames river frontage in the heart of the Thames Gateway at Barking Riverside, near Barking town centre and close to the City of London, Canary Wharf and the Lower Lea Valley....

Regeneration objectives at risk from LLDC funding gap (Greater London Authority)

Edit noodls 18 Dec 2013
(Source. Greater London Authority) ... Gareth Bacon AM, Chairman of the London Assembly Regeneration Committee, said.. "Regenerating East London and the Lower Lea Valley is important not just to meet the London 2012 legacy objectives, but for the benefit of the people of East London who will be a crucial part of building the community for years to come. "We believe in the short term the Mayor should continue to invest and support the LLDC....

American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light by Iain Sinclair – review

Edit The Guardian 04 Nov 2013
... But where his previous mad travellings were symbolic exorcisms of creeping urban homogenisation – walking anticlockwise around the M25, pedalling a plastic swan from Hastings to the Lower Lea Valley in the company of film-maker Andrew Kötting – this time round he's created a collage journey to and through the sources of his sorcery....
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