18th January 2018

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TRUNK CALL

Issue 1360

Established: 1987

Protests and 7 hour meeting end with no approval for controversial shopping centre plans, but vote will be held again this month

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January 18 2018

www.southwarknews.co.uk

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Rotherhithe residents ‘living in fear’ after fire

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By Chiara Giordano

chiara@southwarknews.co.uk

CONTROVERSIAL PLANS to redevelop Elephant and Castle shopping centre failed to get approval by a council committee after a tense, packed-out sevenhour meeting on Tuesday evening. Protestors demonstrated outside the council’s Tooley Street HQ, and

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managed to get in to the foyer, as the meeting began on Tuesday evening. Councillors voted four against and three in favour of passing developer Delancey’s plans, while one abstained, prompting many campaigners to celebrate – but the following morning the council confirmed the decision did not mean the plans had been rejected. Full story on page 8

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