Month: October 2019

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Nativeland’s billion pound investment to develop Southbank

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Finally product of plans

A project to develop the Bankside Yards, which is worth approximately £1 billion, has the full commitment of developer Nativeland.

This project involves bringing Southbank and Bankside closer than ever for the first time in over a hundred years, by constructing a £1 billion mix-use development featuring 1.4 million square foot of workspaces, homes and independent shops with a cultural space within 14 restored railway arches.

London based developer Nativeland are going to making this new development open up a new path along the river as they start building their first development called the Arbor which will be an office based building. With the help from their international business partners, the company is getting the backing of international companies meaning an increase of international influence and confidence within London.

Featured in the new development will be an open space which is based within 14 restored railway arches. Which would be a new pathway as there is currently no access due to it being block by Blackfriars, this would be the final missing piece to the south of the river as the access with supply locals with jobs with businesses along the public railway arches such as shops and eateries.

Alasdair Nicholls, Chief Executive of Native Land, mentioned: ‘Bankside Yards will draw together Bankside’s established cultural, commercial, retail and residential worlds around a new neighbourhood where people will work and live, visit or just spend time by the riverside. We are opening up an important piece of London with amazing transport connections and, as locally-based developers, we are keen to contribute to the rich mix of the area by creating a place that’s accessible, enjoyable and productive.’ 

Nativeland continues into becoming more successful as they main focus is to build affordable homes for the future. Their commitment to affordable housing has made them be able to build deliver more than 167 homes which has produced more than £20 million across the boroughs in London

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Diabetes UK

Will Stone from Brixton

Four colleagues work together to raise money for a charity which is close to their hearts.

Will Stone, 25, a surveyor from Brixton and 3 of his colleagues have completed the One Million Step challenge for Diabetes UK.  They have all enjoyed working  together as a team as well as individually to help fundraise and create awareness for Diabetes UK, as they each have close friends or family who are suffering from diabetes. Andrew Shepard, one of the colleagues has said: “Everyone in the team has their own experience of how diabetes can affect our loved ones and ourselves.”

Diabetes is the most devastating and fastest growing health crisis of our time, affecting more people now  than any other serious health condition in the UK before. It affected more people than dementia and cancer combined. There is currently no known cure for any type of diabetes.

Diabetes UK have been asking people to step out of their comfort zone and complete 1 millions steps over the course of 3 months ending in September and encourage people to get sponsored for every stride.  Diabetes is a condition where there is too little or too much glucose to the point where the body can’t function properly.  

Andrea Baganz-Pritchard, Diabetes UK Fundraising Manager, said: “We’re really grateful to the team at AS Retail for supporting our work to fund ground-breaking research, care services and campaigns that can change the lives of those living with diabetes. The One Million Step Challenge is perfect if you want to take steps towards a healthier you.”

 

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The rebels are coming

Thousands of activists from Extinction Rebellion are joining forces all over London to make demands to the government about deteriorating state of the environment.

Extinction Rebellion describe themselves as a “non-violent civil disobedience activist movement” who are looking for answers from the government about how they are going to deal with climate crisis. They have activist groups in all 32 boroughs in London and are expanding as we move. Not even a year old and they are demanding the government to take action on this crisis. They have built protest sites all over Central London from Trafalgar Square to Whitehall and City Airport with the total of 12 sites across Central London.

Speaking to Hayden from Extinction Rebellion Hackney he said: “the government are not delivering, we want them to communicate with us to see what action they are going to take and we are not stopping until they listen.” The activist group have only three demands of the UK government. They want the government to tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, to stop biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse emissions by 2025 and create a national citizen assembly on climate and ecological justice.

One of the activist, Mark, 45, has been campaigning to push legislations on climate change for 30 years. He has said: “Nothing has been happening, something needs to happen.” 50 years he has been a non-violent activist and has seen these protest all before. He has mentioned “The rise of Greta Thunberg has brought people together. The public are starting to listen and realise there is a big problem. However, the government keep giving us false hopes. The more people realise, the more people will act and the more the government will have to raise attention to this.”

As well as the biggest protests happening in London, Extinction Rebellion are based in 23 location all over the world and just keep expanding. Greta Thunberg has become the poster girl for this movement and keeps on shining even though she has faced much criticism from famous figures as powerful as world leaders. Only 16, she has created movements such as ‘school strike for climate change’ where she encouraged millions of student to walk out and protest for their future. She’s impacted millions to protest around the world to take action.

Another activist, Grant, 24, has said: “The system is toxic. We’re destroying life as we speak. I was inspired by Greta Thunberg. She has made this movement so fast growing it’s not even a year old. We need to start educating people about this crisis.”