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Certain cars could be banned from London's roads in an effort | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan refused to rule out | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
the possibility in a bid, he says, 'to save lives'. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
Meanwhile an entrepreneur has succeeded in getting enough crowd | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
funding to set up thousands of new charging points | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Sarah Harris has been speaking to him. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
The Mayor of London says there needs to be a complete rethink | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
in the way our city operates in an effort to combat | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
Sadiq Khan refused to rule out banning some cars | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
One London based entrepreneur has making the shift to green cars | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
easier by setting up thousands of charging points | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
Just five days into 2017 and the capital had already | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
Funding over the next five years has been doubled by the Mayor of London | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Green electric vehicles are part of radical plans to improve things, | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
We've got plans to run over the next few years for more charging points. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
We have to make sure that the electric that | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
comes to the points is as clean as possible. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
We'll save up energy for Londoners to make sure we have | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
sustainable forms of generation of electricity in London. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
We've got to rethink the way our city operates. | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Sandy Baker converted to an electric car a year ago. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
But living in a flat, he can't charge the vehicle | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
He believes more needs to be done to make the switch away from petrol | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
and diesel cars and reduce nitrogen oxide and particulates. | :01:44. | :01:45. | |
There is no dedicated parking space for you that you can | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
The only way you can have an electric car, | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
for the vast majority of Londoners, well, central Londoners, | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
certainly, is if you have lots and lots of public | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
London-based entrepreneur Eric Fairburn believes he has the answer. | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
Partly through crowdfunding, his firm is providing thousands | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
of charging points across London, at airports, supermarkets | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
and housing developments to make electric car driving a practical | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
We really think that electric vehicles are just about to hit mass | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
market and that means we need to put thousands of charge points | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
everywhere you park for an hour or more. | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
So this investment is a fundamental change in our ability | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
The latest technology may make drivers in the capital think again | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
about owning their own car, with sharing becoming more the norm. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Electric car technology is changing all the time. | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
For example, if I want to put the heating on in the car, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
I can do it from inside the house using my phone. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
And if I press this button twice on the motorway, | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
While campaigners accept private and public initiatives are steps | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
in the right direction, many are calling for action now | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
to make the capital's air cleaner and protect Londoners' health. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
Former boxer, Michael Watson, and his carer have been injured | :02:51. | :03:01. | |
during an attempted carjacking in east London. | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
Mr Watson, who was left partially disabled | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
after a bout in 1991, had a substance sprayed in his face | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
Police are appealing for information. | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
Low-cost houses that measure 4 metres by 8 metres are to be built | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
in Chelmsford for people who might otherwise be homeless. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
They're a modern version of the old-fashioned 'prefab' - | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
with the local authority promising that rents will be kept low. | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
By the spring, this parking lot will be one of two council-owned | :03:29. | :03:41. | |
sites where the first 18 prefab homes will be assembled for some | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
It will be people who are mainly on our waiting list and in desperate | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
need of immediate accommodation, people who will have become homeless | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
from their present accommodation for a variety of reasons. | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
So this is a start, really, for a slightly different approach | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
And I believe many other councils are in the same position as us. | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Would you like to build more of these? | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
The interesting thing about this unit is it was assembled | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
What we've got here is a separate bedroom, a living area here, | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
and you can see through here we have got a shower room within a bathroom, | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
and of course in the kitchen, the fridge, washing machine already | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
Now, it can be assembled on-site in half a day | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
NEWS FOOTAGE: A factory-made showhouse. | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
A prototype of half a million promised by Mr Churchill... | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
Construction methods have come a long way since prefabs first | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
Generated by a housing crisis then and again now. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Manufacturers say the modules can be built at less than half the cost | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
of a traditional brick house and are far more energy-efficient. | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
Between them, neighbours Brian and Sandra have clocked up 94 years | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
They live just a stone's throw from where the new modules will go. | :04:57. | :05:04. | |
It's all on one level, it is large in size, | :05:05. | :05:24. | |
the garden's huge, and as a child we used to go around and climb | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
This is very much a quick fix for a local council. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
But the housing industry will be taking note of this because so many | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
young people are unable to afford to get onto the property ladder. | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
So these prefab homes could be a game-changer. | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
And tomorrow will be mild from the start. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Dry as well with just a bit of cloud. | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
The only real change - the temperature - as it picks up | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
on and on. It is because of the direction of the wind. Tomorrow's | :05:51. | :06:22. | |
temperatures might be higher than today by a couple of degrees. There | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
has been a lot of cloud. But we had some lovely pictures coming in. Some | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
sunshine, but predominantly the clouds | :06:32. | :06:32. |