About Deptford
Deptford is a district of south London, England, located on the south bank of the River Thames. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne, and from the mid 16th century to the late 19th was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Navy Dockyards.
Deptford and the docks are associated with the knighting of Sir Francis Drake by Queen Elizabeth I aboard the Golden Hind, the legend of Sir Walter Raleigh laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard Resolution, and the mysterious murder of Christopher Marlowe in a house along Deptford Strand.
Though Deptford began as two small communities, one at the ford, and the other a fishing village on The Thames, Deptford's history and population has been mainly associated with the docks established by Henry VIII.
Transport
Deptford is served by National Rail and Docklands Light Railway services. The National Rail service is operated by Southeastern on the suburban Greenwich Line at Deptford railway station (just a few minutes walk from the church), the oldest passenger only railway station in London, and St Johns, as well as nearby New Cross. The DLR stations are at Deptford Bridge and Elverson Road.
Thames Tunnel Consultation
Please see below the text of a letter received from Thames Water, Customer Relations:
Dear Friar Durugbo,
Thank you for your letter and for the enclosed 256 signature petition against the proposed Thames Tunnel work site at Deptford Church Street . Please accept my response on behalf of Phil Stride and be assured that your response has been sent to the Thames Tunnel team for their ongoing consideration and information. We understand the concerns that you and the local community have raised and wish to reassure you that we take those concerns very seriously.
Further information on why Deptford Church Street is our preferred site rather than Borthwick Wharf Foreshore is available in our Phase Two Scheme Development Report – Appendix U
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The Preliminary Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) is effectively a snap shot in time during the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process to facilitate effective consultation and contains assessments to date including, traffic impact, air quality, noise and odour, the historic environment as well as socio-economic aspects of the respective sites. The proposed sites will continue to be assessed for further review and analysis; information gathered during our consultation will help inform this work. documents.scribd.com.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/49jq6cg1c0188zxb.pdf?t=1320260197
The EIA work which we are undertaking includes an assessment of potential air quality, dust and noise effects during construction. The assessment considers both the potential effects which may arise at the construction site itself as well as potential effects of construction traffic using the local road network. In undertaking the assessment we identify those receptors closest to a site which are representative of sensitive land uses as well as those receptors along the route which construction traffic might take to the strategic road network. In relation to the consideration of community facilities such as schools, in addition to the air quality and noise work described above, our assessment work includes consideration of how the everyday use of facilities might be affected by the proposed works. We are consulting with operators of local community facilities to determine how we can design our work to limit potential adverse effects.
Turning to construction timescales, I thought it may be helpful to clarify a point around duration of the main construction works being three and a half years. This is a headline figure but as you see from our site information paper, more information on construction timescales is available on page ten. We consider the most active part of our works to be shaft construction which would last approximately a year, this part of our work also has the higher number of lorry visits.
Phase two consultation started on 4 November 2011, it will last for 14 weeks closing at 5pm 10 February 2012 and will inform our development consent order application. We expect to publicise our proposed application in mid 2012, having incorporated any changes we make as a result of this second phase of consultation. You will have another chance to comment on our proposals at that stage. We will continue our dialogue with consultees to ensure that we keep interested parties informed up to, and following, the submission of our application, expected to be late 2012. Subject to approval, our provisional start date for construction is 2016.
Your comments and personal details will only be used for the purpose of conducting the consultation exercise. The information will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and all applicable laws and will not be used for any other purpose without your permission.
If you would like to speak to a member of the Thames Tunnel project team please contact us on 0800 0721 086.
If you need to contact Customer Relations again regarding this matter, please telephone me on 08457 200897. Our offices are open between the hours of 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday.If I am unavailable when you call then you can either leave a message for me or one of my colleagues will be pleased to assist.
Yours sincerely
Charlotte Ross
Customer Relations
