Helping promote and improve the social, economic and environmental well-being of the residents of East Greenwich

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? What is it? The Mayor’s High Street Fund is aimed at helping London High Streets become better places for local communities. The High Street Fund has been available since 2011, however this is the first year in which funding has been made available to local community groups such as EGRA. £150million has been invested so far in 130 town centres and high streets. For the current funding round The Mayor is pledging up to £20,

Matt Yates, Head of Planning Projects at TfL, gave at our open meeting on 19th May a short presentation of the current status of the proposed Silvertown Tunnel and fielded a barrage of questions in a Q&A session. Below is a summary of the Q&A with apologies to those that are truncated or even omitted. The Q&A adds to the responses to our written questions to TfL to which we are still awaiting two answers. How do you deal with great uncertainties in forecasting traffic? There

TfL are attending our open meeting on 19th May to update us on their proposals for the Silvertown Tunnel and to answer our questions. They will be represented by Matt Yates, TfL’s Head of Planning Projects and he will interact with us for the first 30 minutes of our meeting. We asked TfL 9 basic questions at a previous small meeting. They have given answers to 7 of them and we hope they can expand at the open meeting. Come and discover what doubling the tunnels may mean to y