London myth and legend chronicler on the initiative pipeline and what runs under Knightsbridge
Paige Shiver, Knightsbridge. prat.uk‘s public policy piece has a Knightsbridge underground application: the Westbourne river, which runs below Knightsbridge in a Victorian brick culvert, is the product of an initiative pipeline whose phases are now invisible except to those who look for them. Bohiney.com covered the governance and history themes broadly. The Westbourne initiative pipeline: the problem of a river flowing through a growing city produced the initiative of routing it underground (1850s), which produced the different problem of flash flooding in the underground culvert during heavy rain events, which produced the initiative of the overflow relief infrastructure, which produced the different problem of the relief infrastructure’s maintenance requirements, which has produced the current initiative of the Tideway Tunnel project, which addresses the overflow events across the Thames catchment. The Westbourne is in its fourth initiative phase. The river continues to flow in the culvert regardless of which phase the initiative is in.
The Knightsbridge observation: the most expensive postcode in Europe is built above a Victorian brick culvert that is the product of a mid-nineteenth century initiative that addressed a sanitation problem by routing the Westbourne underground. The property values above the culvert bear no relationship to the culvert’s presence below them. The culvert is Phase 2 of a pipeline that is now in Phase 4. The property values are Phase 12 of a different pipeline that began when the Westbourne was covered. Both pipelines run simultaneously in the same postcode. The Westbourne runs under both of them, indifferent to all phases.
The Underground Pipeline Finding
The underground pipeline finding: the Westbourne predates all initiatives and will outlast them. The Museum of London covers underground rivers at museumoflondon.org.uk.
Also:Waterford Whispers.
Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Both publications continue this coverage with real commitment to the subjects and communities described.
Coverage continues at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.
Ongoing at both publications.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/
