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LONDON GREEN ROUTE - A SOLUTION TO LONDON'S POLLUTION
London suffers from traffic-related pollution due to its dense road network and high buildings. Central London tends to be one of the most polluted places in the UK. It is currently the main area failing to comply with the legally binding limits set by the EU. Pollution can build up in London when it becomes trapped between buildings, or in the local area more generally, especially during the still weather.
The Thames Tideway flow has suffered for many years from lack of summer flow due to drinking water abstraction upstream and from untreated sewage flows from combined sewer overflows into the Tideway through London during summer storms. Thames Water were fined £20.3m in 2018 by the Environmental Agency after huge prolonged leaks of untreated sewage led to serious impacts on residents, farmers, and wildlife, killing birds and fish.
With safe walking along garden paths and riverside views this is an environmental proposal, a visionary solution to tackle London’s sewage overload and pollution whilst creating an environmental legacy for the city, a new, dedicated green route.
Through living walls made of biorecycle modules, crystal clear clean water constantly trickles into the river bed, restoring the Thames to the pristine ecology necessary for sea trout and salmon to run again to their historic spawning grounds.