19/02/2017 London News


19/02/2017

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Certain cars could be banned from London's roads in an effort

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan refused to rule out

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the possibility in a bid, he says, 'to save lives'.

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Meanwhile an entrepreneur has succeeded in getting enough crowd

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funding to set up thousands of new charging points

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Sarah Harris has been speaking to him.

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The Mayor of London says there needs to be a complete rethink

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in the way our city operates in an effort to combat

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Sadiq Khan refused to rule out banning some cars

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One London based entrepreneur has making the shift to green cars

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easier by setting up thousands of charging points

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Just five days into 2017 and the capital had already

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Funding over the next five years has been doubled by the Mayor of London

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Green electric vehicles are part of radical plans to improve things,

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We've got plans to run over the next few years for more charging points.

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We have to make sure that the electric that

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comes to the points is as clean as possible.

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We'll save up energy for Londoners to make sure we have

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sustainable forms of generation of electricity in London.

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We've got to rethink the way our city operates.

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Sandy Baker converted to an electric car a year ago.

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But living in a flat, he can't charge the vehicle

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He believes more needs to be done to make the switch away from petrol

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and diesel cars and reduce nitrogen oxide and particulates.

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There is no dedicated parking space for you that you can

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The only way you can have an electric car,

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for the vast majority of Londoners, well, central Londoners,

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certainly, is if you have lots and lots of public

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London-based entrepreneur Eric Fairburn believes he has the answer.

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Partly through crowdfunding, his firm is providing thousands

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of charging points across London, at airports, supermarkets

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and housing developments to make electric car driving a practical

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We really think that electric vehicles are just about to hit mass

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market and that means we need to put thousands of charge points

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everywhere you park for an hour or more.

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So this investment is a fundamental change in our ability

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The latest technology may make drivers in the capital think again

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about owning their own car, with sharing becoming more the norm.

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Electric car technology is changing all the time.

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For example, if I want to put the heating on in the car,

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I can do it from inside the house using my phone.

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And if I press this button twice on the motorway,

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While campaigners accept private and public initiatives are steps

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in the right direction, many are calling for action now

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to make the capital's air cleaner and protect Londoners' health.

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Former boxer, Michael Watson, and his carer have been injured

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during an attempted carjacking in east London.

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Mr Watson, who was left partially disabled

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after a bout in 1991, had a substance sprayed in his face

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Police are appealing for information.

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Low-cost houses that measure 4 metres by 8 metres are to be built

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in Chelmsford for people who might otherwise be homeless.

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They're a modern version of the old-fashioned 'prefab' -

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with the local authority promising that rents will be kept low.

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By the spring, this parking lot will be one of two council-owned

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sites where the first 18 prefab homes will be assembled for some

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It will be people who are mainly on our waiting list and in desperate

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need of immediate accommodation, people who will have become homeless

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from their present accommodation for a variety of reasons.

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So this is a start, really, for a slightly different approach

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And I believe many other councils are in the same position as us.

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Would you like to build more of these?

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The interesting thing about this unit is it was assembled

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What we've got here is a separate bedroom, a living area here,

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and you can see through here we have got a shower room within a bathroom,

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and of course in the kitchen, the fridge, washing machine already

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Now, it can be assembled on-site in half a day

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NEWS FOOTAGE: A factory-made showhouse.

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A prototype of half a million promised by Mr Churchill...

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Construction methods have come a long way since prefabs first

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Generated by a housing crisis then and again now.

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Manufacturers say the modules can be built at less than half the cost

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of a traditional brick house and are far more energy-efficient.

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Between them, neighbours Brian and Sandra have clocked up 94 years

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They live just a stone's throw from where the new modules will go.

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It's all on one level, it is large in size,

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the garden's huge, and as a child we used to go around and climb

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This is very much a quick fix for a local council.

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But the housing industry will be taking note of this because so many

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young people are unable to afford to get onto the property ladder.

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So these prefab homes could be a game-changer.

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And tomorrow will be mild from the start.

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Dry as well with just a bit of cloud.

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The only real change - the temperature - as it picks up

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on and on. It is because of the direction of the wind. Tomorrow's

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temperatures might be higher than today by a couple of degrees. There

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has been a lot of cloud. But we had some lovely pictures coming in. Some

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sunshine, but predominantly the clouds

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