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Welcome to BBC London News.

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I'm Alex Bushill.

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The Mayor of London is facing

growing opposition from outer London

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boroughs over plans to build 600,000

new homes in ten years.

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City Hall says its an answer

to the housing crisis.

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But some boroughs say

Sadiq Khan's plans will threaten

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green spaces and lead

to uncontrolled development.

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In the borough of Richmond there is

an old college playing field where

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they have started digging, and some

green space will be lost to make way

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for new schools and business hub.

But the council leader is happy

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about it.

It is a development that

works because it has been thought

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through, local partners have been

brought together and we have planned

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it.

But what has not been thought

through, he claims, is the Mayor of

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London's plans for many new homes,

which he believes could

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lead to uncontrolled development

that wrecks the borough's character.

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He has written an open letter to

residents saying this. This plan, if

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implemented as currently proposed,

will have an enormous impact on our

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borough. The Mayor of London's plan

is for 600,000 new homes in ten

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years, with 8000 in Richmond

Borough, one of the greenest in

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London. But looking at the map the

council leader says such a dash for

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growth will come at a cost.

We have

got playing fields and green spaces

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which are under threat already so

additional pressure of small site

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development, local infill, without

the ability to strategically plan is

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going to put pressure on all of our

other remaining local green spaces

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and playing fields.

And it is not

just in Richmond that they are

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rebelling. Over in south-east

London, Bexley Council says it's

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suburban streets could be changed

forever.

It certainly is a rebellion

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against the plan.

The counsellor,

who has lived here for more than 30

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years, says in some areas developers

could just buy up and knock down the

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semis like dominoes.

You see the

houses behind big? This would be an

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ideal location for a developer to

come along and buy those two houses,

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knock them down and put a block of

flats there with no parking. I could

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see a lot of these houses completely

disappeared, just blocks of flats.

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An independent calculation prepared

for some councils claims the target

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in inner

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London is up 41% and in outer London

it is up 114%. So far, Richmond,

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Kingston, Bexley and Bromley are

known to be unhappy, and it is

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understood at least eight councils

are making formal objections.

If

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bloggers are saying they do not

agree with the plan they are either

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saying build on the green belt or

they do not have an answer to the

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housing crisis.

Responses to the

plan have to be in by the end of the

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month, then City Hall will consider

its final strategy.

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Plans to increase the number

of passengers using Stansted Airport

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have been lodged with

the local council.

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Managers want to raise the cap

limiting the maximum number

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of passengers a year.

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But a campaign group in opposition

to expansion says the existing noise

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is already bad enough.

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Richard Smith sent this report.

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In the heart of the terminal at

Stansted today, builders are making

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space for new check-in desks outside

the first of 20 new ad Kraft stands

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are taking place. The start of a

£600 million transformation,

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including a new arrivals terminal.

All vital, they say, to prepare

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Stanstead Airport for future growth.

What we are doing is matching the

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timing of our development with

demand, and we think now is the

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right time to start planning for

that demand, the right time to give

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airlines and stakeholders the

confidence and clarity as to what

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Stansted is going to be for the next

ten to 15 years.

Stanstead Airport

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handles around 26 million passengers

a year. It is allowed to handle up

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to 35 million. It is applying to

lift that capped a 43 million

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passengers a year, close to the

capacity of its current single

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runway. A decade ago Stanstead

Airport went through a public

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inquiry and a long legal battle for

permission to increase passenger

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numbers. The campaign group which

opposed that expansion is

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considering the airport's new

request to grow.

It is bad enough as

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it is now with the planes flying in,

lots of complaints about the noise.

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And the number of flights would go

up, as I say, by 45% so you can

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imagine the impact that would have.

If its applications are approved,

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Stanstead Airport could operate more

flights, although no more than

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currently allowed. The airport seeks

no change to noise limits and

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believes the impact on communities

would be minimal. Stansted says 2018

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will break records, Emirates will

begin flying from Stansted in June,

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transatlantic flights resume in

weeks thanks to a Danish carrier.

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The district council will now

consider Stansted's application.

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Richard Smith reporting there.

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What's the best way to remember

those who died at Grenfell

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and ensure promises made to support

the survivors are honoured?

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Well, a nearby theatre company

thinks they can help by staging

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a play based on the views of locals

living near Grenfell Tower.

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Ayshea Buksh reports.

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Nancy come again I get my usual?

One

pint of lager coming up.

The setting

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is a pub in the shadow of Grenfell

Tower, the drama onstage between

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locals and housing officials in the

lead up to last summer's fire.

You

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boys, smashing glasses...

Boys Will

be boys!

The actors all live

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locally, one performer lost a close

friend in the fire and says taking

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part in the production has been a

healing process.

It is tough, the

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Greeks are dealing with what

happened over the summer.

Just

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remember a couple of things, moment

where people talk over each other...

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It allows you to act out scenarios

and deal with it in a way that is

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different to just talking about it.

The short play has been produced by

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a theatre company in North

Kensington, Britain by young

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performers after interviewing

residents on a state in the area.

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Raphael Joseph was one of them, he

lives on the Lancaster West Estate

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next to the Grenfell Tower.

We still

feel like nothing has been done,

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even the lots. In terms of support,

but in terms of trying to refurbish

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our flat as well, everything is

going at a slower pace but at the

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same time we have to be grateful for

our lives and just keep on moving

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forward.

The community Theatre

company is based in a housing estate

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in Kensal rise and the artistic

director says they are passionate

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about giving people in social

housing a voice.

We want to raise

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the profile of social housing, we

want to show the value of council

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estates. At the moment more than 100

of them in London are being

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earmarked for demolition.

We believe

that the people living and working

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in social housing need to be

empowered. The next step is to take

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the play and perform it out on

location, and around local estates

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close to the Grenfell Tower.

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Now, with a warning of snow

and sub-zero temperatures

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on the way, here's Elizabeth Ritzini

with a look at the weekend weather.

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Good afternoon, it was a cold and

frosty start to the day, a

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widespread frost of course earlier

on this morning, Tom temperatures as

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low as minus five Celsius. There is

still some sunshine for the rest of

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the day but also an awful lot of

cloud, the best of the sunshine is

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in the West and we have a chilly

easterly wind as well. Temperatures

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only fall five Celsius, it will of

course look older than that with the

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wind chill and quite bitter,

particularly where we have the cloud

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out

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towards central and eastern areas

for the most part but at least it

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will stay dry. Overnight tonight the

skies will largely clear once more

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and once again we are looking at a

widespread hard frost into tomorrow

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morning. Temperatures could get as

low as -4 -5 once more but tomorrow,

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a cold and frosty start but actually

it is going to be quite a pretty

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looking day with lots of sunshine

around, as you can see on the map,

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hardly a cloud in the sky but what

you cannot see is the strengthening

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easterly wind, that will pick up

through the day, an awful lot of

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wind chill tomorrow afternoon coming

in from the east. We will see

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temperatures between four and seven

Celsius but in reality it could be

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subzero for much of the day. Even

colder air coming our way on Sunday,

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pushing in from Siberia, so it will

feel absolutely bitter, temperatures

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only one or two Celsius, feeling

subzero all-day, that is where the

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temperatures will stake as we head

into the start of next week and we

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have a Met Office weather warning

out for some snow showers on Monday

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and Tuesday.

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