:00:15. > :00:23.Hello, you are watching Inside Out London. Here is what is coming up
:00:23. > :00:28.on tonight's show. The Olympics are greatest logistical challenge
:00:28. > :00:32.London has faced since World War Two. We are going to the command
:00:32. > :00:36.centre to find out how London will cope. We are trying to bring
:00:36. > :00:42.together the operators into one place so we can have a co-ordinated
:00:42. > :00:48.response. Why this thriving High Street is in danger of becoming
:00:48. > :00:55.ancient history. We have been here for 78 years. You can't replicate
:00:55. > :01:03.that in another location. Has the mystery of Lord Lucan finally been
:01:03. > :01:13.sold? Instructions were to make arrangements for Lord Lucan to see
:01:13. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:25.In a little over five months, London will be hosting one of the
:01:25. > :01:28.largest sporting extravaganzas of all time, and it doesn't take a
:01:28. > :01:34.genius to work out that the transport system is going to be
:01:34. > :01:37.absolutely chocker. But, despite being under immense strain, it's
:01:37. > :01:45.still got to get 9 million spectators, as well as hundreds of
:01:45. > :01:48.thousands of athletes and officials, to the Games on time. Truly an
:01:48. > :01:51.awesome task. So, what plans are Olympic organizers making to
:01:51. > :01:55.prevent the capital going into meltdown? Marc Ashdown went to find
:01:55. > :02:00.out. London, 1948. The 14th Olympiad of
:02:00. > :02:04.the modern era. They say the past is a foreign
:02:04. > :02:12.country. They do things differently there. Back then the roads were
:02:12. > :02:20.empty, and the Tube, well it only carried 145,000 passengers a day.
:02:20. > :02:23.Today it's 28 times that, a whopping 4 million. And during the
:02:23. > :02:29.Games it'll be even busier, with the road and rail network stretched
:02:29. > :02:31.to breaking point. And remember this? Olympic organisers in Atlanta
:02:32. > :02:37.have been heavily criticised. Redgrave described transport
:02:37. > :02:41.arrangements to and from the rowing venue as diabolical. The Atlanta
:02:41. > :02:44.Olympics in 1996 - a transport nightmare. Spectators couldn't find
:02:44. > :02:52.the venues, bus drivers got lost and some athletes even missed their
:02:52. > :02:57.events. Now London 2012 organisers are determined not to make the same
:02:57. > :03:01.mistakes, so they've come up with this - the Olympic Transport Plan.
:03:01. > :03:04.Now it is quite heavy reading, and worth a go if you can't sleep, but
:03:04. > :03:11.then the Olympic and Paralympic games is reckoned to be the largest
:03:11. > :03:14.logistical challenge the country's faced since World War Two. And it's
:03:14. > :03:21.being masterminded from here - TFL's state of the art Transport
:03:21. > :03:24.Co-ordination Centre in Southwark. We're investing �6.5 billion in the
:03:24. > :03:27.transport network to ensure that we're ready to host a great Olympic
:03:27. > :03:30.and Paralympic games this summer, just as importantly as making sure
:03:30. > :03:36.that we're able to keep regular users of the transport network on
:03:36. > :03:39.the move as well. And one of the key things we've done is to try and
:03:39. > :03:42.bring together all of the operators responsible for moving people about
:03:42. > :03:44.London into one place so that we can come up with a co-ordinated
:03:44. > :03:50.response to making sure the transport network functions really
:03:50. > :03:53.well during the Games. If there is an incident, we're able to focus in,
:03:53. > :03:56.see what's actually happening there and then we're able to tweak
:03:56. > :03:59.traffic signal timings around there, dispatch police, make sure we can
:03:59. > :04:05.relieve pressure in that particular part of the network so that London
:04:05. > :04:13.keeps on moving. Central to the plan is the Olympic Route Network,
:04:13. > :04:18.or ORN. It's a relatively small part of the road network, 109 miles,
:04:18. > :04:20.linking the key venues in London. The whole purpose of the ORN is to
:04:20. > :04:26.make sure that athletes, officials, and media get around London for
:04:26. > :04:29.events reliably. Controversially, a third of the Olympic Route Network
:04:29. > :04:36.has been set aside exclusively for Olympic traffic, the so called
:04:36. > :04:44.Games Lanes. All traffic is able to make use of the Olympic Route
:04:44. > :04:48.Network. It's only Games Lanes that Games family vehicles and emergency
:04:48. > :04:50.services vehicles only have access to. So that means, if you're an
:04:50. > :04:53.athlete at the peak of physical fitness, one of several thousand
:04:53. > :04:56.Games organisers, or one of the copious corporate sponsors checking
:04:56. > :04:58.on how your money's being spent, you could be travelling in
:04:58. > :05:08.chauffeur-driven luxury, safe in the knowledge you'll get to your
:05:08. > :05:09.
:05:09. > :05:14.VIP seat or starting blocks in good time. And that makes sense. After
:05:14. > :05:17.all, no one wants the athletes missing out on medals. Now we won't
:05:17. > :05:21.be able to use the Games lanes, but if you fancy chancing it, think
:05:21. > :05:26.twice - there'll be lane cameras and �200 fines. Many people aren't
:05:27. > :05:36.happy. This is John Lewis from Cheshunt. He's been a cabbie for 26
:05:36. > :05:40.years and goes all over, wherever the fares take him. So what do you
:05:40. > :05:43.think of these Olympic lanes then? I actually think they're going to
:05:43. > :05:46.be a nightmare for my customers, there's going to be so much
:05:46. > :05:49.disruption and it's going to give a lot of delays getting people to
:05:49. > :05:53.where they need to be, to stations, to business meetings and just
:05:53. > :05:56.getting into the office in the mornings. One big worry for John is
:05:56. > :05:59.that the Games lanes will end up squeezing more traffic into less
:05:59. > :06:06.road. They're just going to be very restrictive in that you can't cross
:06:06. > :06:09.them. You wont be able to. Mainly going to be that you can't turn
:06:09. > :06:13.right because the Olympic lane is always going to be the outside lane
:06:13. > :06:16.so all the normal traffic will be moved to the inside. But say like
:06:16. > :06:19.you live in Wapping, if you're travelling from the west to the
:06:19. > :06:22.east you won't be able to turn right to get into Wapping, you're
:06:22. > :06:24.going to have to go through the Limehouse link, out to Cotton
:06:24. > :06:28.Street, round the roundabout, back through into the Limehouse link,
:06:28. > :06:31.back onto the highway and then turn left to where ever you live.
:06:31. > :06:33.that's going to be a nightmare of a journey? Absolute nightmare, yeah,
:06:33. > :06:36.absolute nightmare. And it's not just London's cabbies who could
:06:36. > :06:39.fall foul of Olympic congestion. Lunchtime at the Plume of Feathers,
:06:39. > :06:42.the oldest pub in Greenwich. It's a good old fashioned London boozer.
:06:42. > :06:50.Behind the bar is Susan Rose. She's been pulling pints here since the
:06:50. > :07:00.'80s. I take great care of the beers and the pipes so that we can
:07:00. > :07:00.
:07:00. > :07:03.really produce, we hope, the best pint in London. And since 1691, the
:07:03. > :07:13.beer has kept flowing. Yes, for over 300 years these cellars have
:07:13. > :07:15.never run dry. But the pub faces its biggest challenge yet. It's on
:07:15. > :07:18.the Olympic Route Network and there's no stopping, which means
:07:18. > :07:21.deliveries from the drey men might dry up. We're only 150 yards
:07:21. > :07:24.approximately from the gates of the equestrian eventing. It would be
:07:24. > :07:27.disastrous for us if the deliveries couldn't get through or my staff
:07:27. > :07:31.couldn't get through to work. I could be the pub with no beer, the
:07:31. > :07:34.pub with no pork pies, the pub with no nothing. Because of parking
:07:34. > :07:44.restrictions, the only way of getting the beer through is at
:07:44. > :07:44.
:07:44. > :07:48.night. But the brewers are finding this hard to swallow. It's not been
:07:48. > :07:51.handled anything like as well as it could be. This is the thing that is
:07:51. > :07:54.really worrying some of my members. It is very, very expensive to put a
:07:54. > :07:58.night shift in, and also if they lose 20, 30, 40% productivity
:07:58. > :08:01.during the day, we are not going to be anybody who is making money out
:08:01. > :08:04.of the Olympic Games. Well let's hope night deliveries do the trick.
:08:04. > :08:08.As for TFL, well they're confident they can keep the beer and traffic
:08:08. > :08:15.flowing. How? By asking spectators to leave their car keys at home -
:08:15. > :08:19.none of the venues have car parks anyway. London is going to be a
:08:19. > :08:28.100% public transport Games. All of the venues are fantastically well-
:08:28. > :08:30.served by public transport. Obviously we've got the Tube - key
:08:30. > :08:33.lines, jubilee, district and central lines serving the park and
:08:33. > :08:36.other venues. There's the DLR, there's national rail services.
:08:36. > :08:39.We'll also be promoting people to walk and cycle to venues. For those
:08:39. > :08:45.people coming from further afield there'll also be park and ride
:08:45. > :08:47.facilities. Now if you are going to the Games, there's a handy website
:08:47. > :08:52.with all the information you need. Just go to
:08:52. > :08:57.www.getaheadofthegames.com. And it tells you how to avoid getting
:08:57. > :09:01.snarled up in all the pinch points. Two of the busiest days to steer
:09:01. > :09:11.clear of are the 3rd and the 13th of August, the day after the
:09:11. > :09:11.
:09:11. > :09:14.closing ceremony. Of course nobody knows for sure but at key stations,
:09:14. > :09:17.places like Waterloo, Canary Wharf, London Bridge, there could be
:09:17. > :09:21.delays of up to half an hour, and that's got some people thinking we
:09:21. > :09:24.should have a new Olympic sport - things to do while you're stuck on
:09:24. > :09:30.the underground. Freestyle fencing. Synchronised sudoku. And let's not
:09:30. > :09:33.forget the three-yard dash. Seriously though, the transport
:09:33. > :09:36.network needs to cope with an extra 3 million trips on the busiest
:09:36. > :09:46.games days, and despite all the upgrade work, at peak times it'll
:09:46. > :09:49.come under pressure. TFL says we all need to plan ahead. People can
:09:49. > :09:53.sort of actually think about what makes most sense for me during the
:09:54. > :09:57.Games, and it's not going to be the same answer for everyone. For some
:09:57. > :10:07.people it may well be, you know, starting their work day a little
:10:07. > :10:12.
:10:12. > :10:15.bit earlier and finishing a little bit earlier. Others it might be
:10:15. > :10:18.starting a bit later and finishing a bit later. For some, they might
:10:18. > :10:22.be able to walk or cycle to work, as opposed to taking the Tube.
:10:22. > :10:24.There's no escaping that some parts of London are going to be really
:10:24. > :10:27.busy, but by planning ahead we're confident that the transport
:10:27. > :10:31.network is going to cope. And one final piece of advice from TFL...
:10:31. > :10:34.If you are worried about the rush hour crush, grab a pint, relax and
:10:34. > :10:36.go home a bit later. That is assuming the drey men haven't got
:10:36. > :10:41.snarled up in the Olympic Route Network. Cheers.
:10:41. > :10:47.Still to come: the council now wants to demolish this entire row
:10:47. > :10:53.of shops. Prime minister, I challenge you to come over here.
:10:53. > :10:58.Lord Lucan has been the subject of feverish fascination ever since he
:10:58. > :11:03.disappeared in 1974, shortly after the murder of his children's nanny.
:11:03. > :11:08.Since then, his mysterious fate has been the subject of endless
:11:08. > :11:12.speculation and innumerable unconfirmed sightings. Now, Inside
:11:12. > :11:22.Out has uncovered fresh evidence as to what really happened in the
:11:22. > :11:28.Cold cases don't get any colder than this one, and they don't get
:11:28. > :11:35.any more mysterious either. But with the passing of time, the truth
:11:35. > :11:38.has a habit of surfacing. Now, this is a brave claim to make,
:11:38. > :11:48.but I think I can tell you what happened to Lord Lucan after he
:11:48. > :12:00.
:12:00. > :12:04.fled this house on the night of 7th Early on a theory was put forward
:12:04. > :12:14.that Lord Lucan committed suicide after attempting to murder his
:12:14. > :12:23.
:12:23. > :12:25.estranged wife. But nobody was ever washed up. The second theory was
:12:25. > :12:27.that John Aspinall, casino owner and founder of Howlett's Zoo in
:12:27. > :12:37.Kent and Sir James Goldsmith, multi-millionaire businessman,
:12:37. > :12:37.
:12:37. > :12:40.somehow smuggled Lucan out of the country to escape justice. John
:12:40. > :12:50.Aspinall for one, made no secret of his loyalty towards his old
:12:50. > :12:50.
:12:50. > :12:53.gambling friend, Lord Lucan. John Aspinall and Sir James Goldsmith
:12:53. > :12:55.are now both dead. Neither uttered a word in public about the role
:12:55. > :12:57.they played in Lucan's disappearance. But behind closed
:12:57. > :12:59.doors, both Aspinall and Goldsmith knew far more than they were
:12:59. > :13:02.letting on and this woman was party to some of those secret
:13:02. > :13:04.conversations. She has asked that we change her name and conceal her
:13:04. > :13:14.identity as she recounts the inside story as to what really happened to
:13:14. > :13:33.
:13:33. > :13:36.Lord Lucan. Instructions were to make arrangements for John Bingham,
:13:36. > :13:39.also known as Lord Lucan, to see his children. And to do that I had
:13:39. > :13:42.to book his two eldest children on flights to Africa. Now I don't know
:13:42. > :13:44.the exact dates, it was between '79 and '81 and it was two occasions
:13:44. > :13:47.that I booked the flights. We had duplicate passports for the two
:13:47. > :13:50.older children. I did ask why Camilla, the youngest one, wasn't
:13:50. > :13:53.going and it was said that she was on her mother's passport and she
:13:53. > :13:57.couldn't. Anyway, she was too young to travel on her own, so just the
:13:57. > :14:05.older two. They would go to Kenya to the Treetops resort, they would
:14:05. > :14:08.have a little holiday there. As far as they were concerned, they were
:14:08. > :14:12.going on a safari type holiday. And they would also fly internally to
:14:12. > :14:14.Gabon, at some point. And I believe it was in Gabon, from what I
:14:14. > :14:18.understand, their father would observe them and see them which is
:14:18. > :14:22.what he wanted to do. Just see how they were growing up and look at
:14:22. > :14:25.them from a distance. It was quite clear that he wouldn't meet them or
:14:25. > :14:27.speak to them or make himself known to them, because that would make it
:14:27. > :14:37.difficult for them going back to their mother saying, "I've seen
:14:37. > :14:40.
:14:40. > :14:43.daddy" or something, so that was it. Did you realise that this was a
:14:43. > :14:46.huge manhunt? Lord Lucan was still in '79 and '80 the most wanted man
:14:46. > :14:52.in Britain and here you are arranging for him to go and see his
:14:52. > :15:00.children furtively over in Africa? I just had no idea of the enormity
:15:00. > :15:03.of it, as you say now. It was just me doing a job amongst many other
:15:03. > :15:07.things that I did in that casino world were quite alien to me, you
:15:07. > :15:17.know. And it seemed in a way quite a nice thing to do, to facilitate a
:15:17. > :15:17.
:15:17. > :15:19.father seeing his children. If I now put it in the context that he
:15:19. > :15:21.was a murderer or there was a murder committed and Sandra
:15:21. > :15:31.Rivett's family have obviously suffered enormously. It doesn't
:15:31. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:38.seem the same. But how do we know that what Jill
:15:38. > :15:42.says is true? Well what I can tell you is that she certainly did work
:15:42. > :15:46.for John Aspinall here at his Casino in Knightsbridge. And I can
:15:46. > :15:48.introduce you to this man. His name is Bob Polkinghorne and he's the
:15:48. > :15:54.former Detective Inspector in charge of the Lucan case file
:15:54. > :16:01.during the 1980s. Now retired and living in Kent, we tracked Bob down,
:16:01. > :16:03.hoping he could shed more light on what really happened to Lord Lucan.
:16:03. > :16:13.This is the first time he's publicly divulged what his
:16:13. > :16:14.
:16:14. > :16:17.investigation unearthed. I made a few inquiries around and
:16:17. > :16:24.it was quite obvious that people were aware that Lucan wasn't dead
:16:24. > :16:30.and the word was he was in Africa. Lady Lucan, I am quite convinced,
:16:30. > :16:35.didn't think he was dead. In fact, she said to me he was a gambler,
:16:35. > :16:37.gambler's don't commit suicide, they always win the next hand.
:16:37. > :16:43.Shortly afterwards, Bob received further confirmation that Lucan was
:16:44. > :16:46.indeed alive and well. This time, a sighting from a reliable source, an
:16:46. > :16:53.eyewitness who had followed one of Lucan's close acquaintances as he
:16:53. > :17:00.holidayed in Africa. He was surprised to see this
:17:00. > :17:08.acquaintance standing on a bridge. After two or three minutes, he was
:17:08. > :17:16.joined by another man who he is adamant was Lord Lucan. What did
:17:16. > :17:18.you do with this new evidence? For some reason I was then later told,
:17:18. > :17:28.a few days later, "Discontinue the inquiry, you haven't got approval
:17:28. > :17:28.
:17:28. > :17:31.to continue". Why do you think that happened? I definitely think he was
:17:31. > :17:41.spirited out of the country, I think he was his gambling
:17:41. > :17:59.
:17:59. > :18:02.fraternity friends spirited him out the country. But in hindsight, do
:18:02. > :18:05.you wish that you hadn't sat on this information for so long?
:18:05. > :18:13.knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have sat on it for so long,
:18:13. > :18:15.definitely. Yes, there is some regrets. Why have you asked us to
:18:15. > :18:18.conceal your ID? We haven't paid you any money for this interview,
:18:18. > :18:20.you could have gone to one of the national newspapers and made
:18:20. > :18:23.thousands. I don't want to make anything from it. I simply want to
:18:23. > :18:26.pass on a message, that is all. it sunk in now that you assisted in
:18:26. > :18:29.a conspiracy when a man who was wanted by Scotland yard for murder
:18:29. > :18:32.was alive in '79 and 1980? I mean, does that worry you now?
:18:32. > :18:36.because I have got a clear conscience. It doesn't worry me. I
:18:37. > :18:39.mean, I wasn't assisting in Lord Lucan escaping or anything. I mean,
:18:39. > :18:42.it wasn't really all over the press in 1979 and '81 that they were
:18:42. > :18:45.desperately searching for the runaway Lord Lucan. So my
:18:46. > :18:55.conscience is clear and as I say, all I want to do is pass on the
:18:56. > :18:57.
:18:57. > :19:00.information that I have to whoever it may be of interest to.
:19:00. > :19:02.Some of our capital's High Streets, like Camden's here, are weathering
:19:02. > :19:06.the economic downturn pretty well, thanks to their fiercely
:19:06. > :19:11.independent spirit. But in other parts of London, distinctive local
:19:11. > :19:15.shops are under serious threat. Just at a time, ironically, when
:19:15. > :19:17.the Government is trying to champion traditional high streets.
:19:17. > :19:27.Lucinda Lambert visited a parade of Shepherds Bush shops that's deeply
:19:27. > :19:40.
:19:40. > :19:47.fearful for its future. This is Goldhawk Road, Shepherds
:19:47. > :19:50.Bush. It has occupied a place in my heart for many years, it was
:19:50. > :20:00.immortalised in the film Quadrophenia. The original album
:20:00. > :20:01.
:20:01. > :20:04.was actually dedicated to the kids of the Goldhawk Road.
:20:04. > :20:11.Today it is not top notch glamour, but it has had such a rich past and
:20:11. > :20:19.with this somewhat run down row of shops, a unique present.
:20:19. > :20:27.Eel and Pies have been eaten here since 1891. And in here survives
:20:27. > :20:30.the only 1960's Wimpy furniture in the whole land. And in there lies
:20:30. > :20:34.some of the materials that made some of the costumes for the Harry
:20:34. > :20:36.Potter films. We've had everybody for the last 30
:20:37. > :20:40.years. We've had Zandra Rhodes, the queen's dressmaker, Stuart Parvin,
:20:40. > :20:45.Stella McCartney. Ask any designer around the world and they say
:20:45. > :20:47.Goldhawk Road. Lots of people make pilgrimages to here and
:20:47. > :20:51.particularly the Mods. Pete Townshend's a regular visitor,
:20:51. > :21:00.Jimmy Page comes in. Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols likes to have his
:21:00. > :21:03.lunch here. I love this place so much my wife said to me, "I think
:21:03. > :21:08.I'm your second wife and Zippy is your first wife." Just around the
:21:08. > :21:10.corner is Shepherds Bush market. If you want a suitcase of gigantic
:21:10. > :21:15.proportions, and many more strange and wonderful things, this is the
:21:15. > :21:18.place for you. But with the massive complex Westfields opening up just
:21:18. > :21:22.down the road, developers and the local council want to glitz the
:21:22. > :21:30.market and nearby Goldhawk Road up. Meaning these shops will be pulled
:21:30. > :21:33.down. Hammersmith and Fulham council want to redevelop this area
:21:33. > :21:40.and us small businesses, we don't and us small businesses, we don't
:21:40. > :21:43.want to lose our businesses. And they are going to threaten us with
:21:43. > :21:48.compulsary order purchase, which we have opposed. It's almost
:21:48. > :21:51.unbelievable in this day and age. We will be one of the first stages
:21:51. > :21:57.to be demolished and they want to build 212 flats. 212 flats, instead
:21:57. > :21:59.of these delightful shops. Because of the associations with this shop,
:21:59. > :22:03.Quadrophenia was filmed here in 1979, and a lot of people come from
:22:03. > :22:07.all over the world to see it. It just won't be the same if we are
:22:07. > :22:12.forced to relocate somewhere else. Of course it won't be the same.
:22:12. > :22:15.This has got an authenticity that it could never possibly be replaced.
:22:15. > :22:17.Although it has both feet planted firmly in the past, it is still a
:22:17. > :22:21.flourishing business and never more so than when local football team,
:22:21. > :22:25.QPR, play at home. And their fans aren't looking forward to its
:22:25. > :22:30.proposed demolition. Here, I mean, Rangers fans come
:22:30. > :22:35.back before home games. It's part of their ritual to pass down. They
:22:35. > :22:37.come in with their kids as well. There are so many pie and mash
:22:37. > :22:41.shops around London and the surrounding areas that are just
:22:41. > :22:44.year by year having to close up. It's not as if it was going down
:22:44. > :22:49.the spout. They're not. They're up and running there, vibrantly up and
:22:49. > :22:51.running. The fabric shops, as I understand it, they are a big part
:22:51. > :22:56.of the fashion business. People travel from all over the place, you
:22:56. > :22:59.know, to buy their fabrics. Having been working in this been
:22:59. > :23:02.working in this shop for over 30 years, the council now wishes to
:23:02. > :23:06.demolish this entire row of shops. When you have developers and the
:23:06. > :23:09.council working side by side, hand in hand, how can that be fair? We
:23:09. > :23:12.live in a Millenium age, we get up to find we are now living in feudal
:23:12. > :23:15.times. The prime minister waffles about saving independent shops.
:23:15. > :23:18.Well, Mr Prime Minister, I challenge you to come over here.
:23:18. > :23:27.The Prime Minister's wife is the head of the council. Where's her
:23:27. > :23:35.sense of support? All the pictures, like at the back,
:23:35. > :23:37.you'll see they're about 45 years old. I kept it in 1960's style. My
:23:37. > :23:43.customers, they love it so much they keep telling me, "Don't change
:23:43. > :23:47.it", because they love it, they like it. I love it so much but
:23:47. > :23:51.obviously in the business you can't do that just because you like it.
:23:51. > :23:55.It's because the people love it. After a warming cup of coffee in
:23:55. > :24:05.Zippy's diner, I couldn't help but agree with his customers. This is
:24:05. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:10.the retro style at its finest. It's not fake, it's the real thing.
:24:10. > :24:15.These tables, these walls, the signs, these are all from the '60s
:24:15. > :24:22.the '70s. You can't remake something like that. Places like
:24:22. > :24:24.this offer something that a modern variation of it can't offer. It is
:24:24. > :24:31.traditional and it forms the cultural identity of London and its
:24:31. > :24:39.people. Without places like this, it might as well be any other town
:24:39. > :24:41.in any other city, anywhere else. At the very beginning of all this,
:24:41. > :24:43.though, everybody thought, "Great, the council are at last going to
:24:43. > :24:49.smarten up Shepherds Bush Market without losing its character" and
:24:49. > :24:56.the community were consulted. Local resident Kimmy De Castro remembers
:24:56. > :24:59.those consultations. It was like, would you like the
:24:59. > :25:04.market refurbished? Absolutely. Would you like better lighting?
:25:04. > :25:05.Hell, yeah. Would you like public toilets? Oh, for sure. And then a
:25:05. > :25:09.document came out, the final supplementary planning document
:25:09. > :25:11.came out with all of that in it and on top of that the demolition of
:25:11. > :25:21.the Goldhawk Road shops and the building of 212 private luxury
:25:21. > :25:22.
:25:22. > :25:27.flats and immediately people went Based on that document, the
:25:27. > :25:29.shopkeepers are going to a judicial review. The planning application
:25:29. > :25:33.has already been approved by Hammersmith and Fulham council,
:25:33. > :25:37.though. But the council leader was at least able to offer the
:25:37. > :25:40.shopkeepers some hope. What I'd expect is huge sensitivity
:25:40. > :25:45.on how we can sustain the heritage of those shop fronts, recognising
:25:45. > :25:48.they'll now be modern shop units, as opposed to what we have today.
:25:48. > :25:50.There will be more retail space and so every single shopkeeper on the
:25:50. > :25:56.Goldhawk Road will be able to return to that parade of shops and
:25:56. > :25:59.trade again. I was very keen to ensure that we
:25:59. > :26:01.got these assurances from the developers. I am glad to say that
:26:01. > :26:11.before that, before the planning application was approved, it was
:26:11. > :26:17.
:26:17. > :26:23.made absolutely clear that was the case.
:26:23. > :26:28.The shopkeepers would love it if things were quite that simple.
:26:28. > :26:31.the moment we're all freeholders, we don't pay rent. The fact that
:26:31. > :26:33.they're going to build super flats and they're all going to be sold at
:26:33. > :26:36.premium prices, the chances are that their rents are going to be
:26:36. > :26:40.premium. And they will outprice us, we won't be able to afford to come
:26:40. > :26:44.back in. With the new premises you will be
:26:44. > :26:46.offered, how will the furniture fare in that? First of all, this
:26:46. > :26:53.furniture I don't think is moveable because it is already stuck on the
:26:53. > :26:59.floor, so it is very difficult. All this furniture, most of it is
:26:59. > :27:01.going to be in the bin. If you've had over 10,000
:27:01. > :27:07.signatures saying we do not wish to be demolished, doesn't that say
:27:07. > :27:09.something that the council is doing something wrong?
:27:09. > :27:11.While these shops are not of the same architectural glory and
:27:11. > :27:13.idiosyncracies as those that I usually celebrate, they are places
:27:13. > :27:23.with extraordinary individuality, colour, cosiness and charm that do
:27:23. > :27:26.
:27:26. > :27:28.an inestimable service to the people of west London.
:27:28. > :27:36.And how awful it will be if one day we walk past here uttering
:27:36. > :27:43.plaintiff wails of "Why did we let that lovely eel and pie shop go?
:27:44. > :27:47.How could we have lost it?" Well, that's nearly all for tonight's
:27:48. > :27:52.programme. Before we go though, here's a quick look at what's
:27:52. > :27:57.coming up on next week's show. It's the country's biggest
:27:57. > :28:04.infrastructure project of modern times. But is tearing up the
:28:04. > :28:09.capital to make way for HS2 really the answer?
:28:09. > :28:19.Taking the heart out of Euston and turning it into a nightmare for 10
:28:19. > :28:20.
:28:20. > :28:28.years is not sustainable. The unscrupulous car sellers
:28:28. > :28:30.shifting their debt to Clonmany clients. I have lost �8,000. And
:28:30. > :28:38.the secret sanctuary that's offering a lifeline to these
:28:38. > :28:47.endangered species. This is what it is all about, to produce something
:28:47. > :28:52.And that's all from tonight's Inside Out London. If you missed