SECTION 48 PLANNING ACT 2008 REGULATION 4 INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING (APPLICATIONS: PRESCRIBED FORMS AND PROCEDURE) REGULATIONS 2009

Notice publicising a proposed application for a development consent order for the Thames Tideway Tunnel.
Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Water), whose registered office is at Clearwater Court, Vastern Road, Reading, Berkshire RG1 8DB, intends to make an application (the proposed application) to the Secretary of State for a development consent order to authorise the construction, operation and maintenance of the Thames Tideway Tunnel project (the Project). The project involves intercepting flows from existing combined sewer overflows (CSOs) to tackle untreated sewage overflowing into the tidal River Thames and comprises the following elements: astewater storage and W transfer tunnels between: Thames Waters existing operational sites at Acton Storm Tanks and Abbey Mills Pumping Station ('the main tunnel'); the tunnel would run from Acton Storm Tanks to the River Thames and then underneath the river as far as Rotherhithe where it would divert to the north east via the Limehouse Cut terminating at the Abbey Mills Pumping Station. King George's Park in Wandsworth and the proposed main tunnel site at Carnwath Road Riverside in Fulham ('the Frogmore connection tunnel') via the CSO drop shaft at Dormay Street; Thames Water's existing operational site at Greenwich Pumping Station and the proposed main tunnel site at Chambers Wharf in Southwark ('the Greenwich connection tunnel') via the CSO drop shafts at Deptford Church Street and Earl Pumping Station: hafts to be used for the construction, s operation and maintenance of the main tunnel and the Frogmore and Greenwich connection tunnels as described in Table 1; SO drop shafts, short connection C tunnels and associated development for the interception of flows from existing CSOs and the diversion of those flows into the main tunnel or the Frogmore or Greenwich connection tunnels as described in Table 1; orks to modify Thames Waters w existing Shad Thames Pumping Station at Maguire Street in Southwark rovision of a shaft and modifications p to the existing sewer at Bekesbourne Street in Tower Hamlets; ssociated development to facilitate a construction of the tunnels and shafts described above including: creation of construction sites and access from the public highway including works to the public highway provision of new utilities and services and diversion of existing utilities provision of temporary cofferdams, construction of new river walls, slipways and jetties, campsheds and the relocation of existing moorings provision of air management plant and equipment including ventilation columns, electrical and control kiosks provision of drainage, hard and soft landscaping. The project is an Environmental Impact Assessment development. The proposed application will include an environmental statement.
Table 1: Shaft location description Acton Storm Tanks, south of Canham Road and west of Cobbold Road, London Borough of Ealing Hammersmith Pumping Station, east of Chancellors Road and south of Distillery Road, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Barn Elms, on the south eastern perimeter of the Barn Elms Playing Fields, London Borough of Richmond Putney Embankment Foreshore, on the foreshore north of Lower Richmond Road and west of Putney Bridge, London Borough of Wandsworth including site of temporary slipway to the west of the drop shaft site Carnwath Road Riverside, south of Carnwath Road, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Purpose of shaft To receive the main tunnel from Carnwath Road Riverside and to intercept and divert flow from Acton Storm Relief CSO. To intercept and divert flow from the Hammersmith Pumping Station CSO. To intercept and divert flow from the West Putney Storm Relief CSO. To intercept and divert flow from the Putney Bridge CSO.

The project is an Environmental Impact Assessment development. The proposed application will include an environmental statement.
Table 2: Tunnel Section / Site Main tunnel route Acton Storm Tanks Hammersmith Pumping Station Barn Elms Putney Embankment Foreshore Carnwath Road Riverside Frogmore connection tunnel route, Dormay Street, King Georges Park and Falconbrook Pumping Station Cremorne Wharf Depot and Chelsea Embankment Foreshore Kirtling Street and Heathwall Pumping Station Albert Embankment Foreshore Victoria Embankment Foreshore Location and format of information available Hounslow Civic Centre, Lampton Road, TW3 4DN*; Chiswick Library, Dukes Avenue, W4 2AB*; and at all other locations specified below Ealing Town Hall, Perceval House, 14-16 Uxbridge Road, W5 25Y*; Ealing Central Library, 103 Ealing Broadway Centre, The Broadway, W5 5JY**; Acton Library, High Street, Acton W3 6NA** Hammersmith and Fulham Town Hall, King Street, W6 9JU*; Hammersmith Library, Shepherds Bush Road, W6 7AT** Richmond upon Thames Civic Centre, 44 York Street, TW1 3BZ*; Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 2PU*; Castelnau Library, 75 Castelnau SW13 9RT**; Richmond Information Centre, Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, TW9 1TP** Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 2PU*; Putney Library, 5/7 Disraeli Road, SW15 2DR** Hammersmith and Fulham Town Hall, King Street, W6 9JU*; Fulham Library, 598 Fulham Road, Fulham, SW6 5NX**; Sands End Library, The Community Centre, 59 Broughton Road, Fulham, SW6 2LE** Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, London SW18 2PU*; Wandsworth Town Library, 11 Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, SW18 4AQ**; York Gardens Library, 34 Lavender Road, SW11 2UG** Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall, Hornton Street, W8 7NX*; Chelsea Library, Chelsea Old Town Hall, Kings Road, SW3 5EZ**; Kensington Central Library, 12 Phillimore Walk, Kensington W8 7SA** Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, SW18 2PU*; Battersea Park Library, 309 Battersea Park Road, SW11 4NF**; South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, SW18 1QP** Lambeth Council, Phoenix House, St George Wharf, Wandsworth Road, SW8 2LL*; South Lambeth Library, 180 South Lambeth Road, SW18 1QP** Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, SW1E 6QP*; Victoria Library, 160 Buckingham Palace Road, SW1W 9UD**; Pimlico Library, Rampayne Street, SW1V 2PU** City of London, Gresham Street, London EC2P 2EJ*; Guildhall Library, 5 Aldermanbury, EC2V 7HH**; Shoe Lane Library, Hill House, Little New Street, EC4A 3JR** Southwark Council, 160 Tooley Street, SE1 2QH*; John Harvard Library, 211 Borough High Street, SE1 1JA**; Canada Water Resource Centre, 21 Surrey Quays Road, SE16 7AR** At the locations specified for Earl Pumping Station, Deptford Church Street and Greenwich Pumping Station Lewisham Town Hall, 5th Floor, Laurence House, Catford Road, London SE6 4RU*; Canada Water Resource Centre, 21 Surrey Quays Road, SE16 7AR**; Pepys Resource Centre, Old Library, Deptford Strand, SE8 3BA** Lewisham Town Hall, 5th Floor, Laurence House, Catford Road, SE6 4RU**; Canada Water Resource Centre, 21 Surrey Quays Road, SE16 7AR**; Lewisham Library, 199-201 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6LG**; Pepys Resource Centre, Old Library, Deptford Strand, SE8 3BA** Royal Borough of Greenwich, Town Hall, Wellington Street, SE18 6PW*; West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8NN**

To receive the main tunnel from Kirtling Street and the Frogmore connection tunnel from Dormay Street and to drive the main tunnel to Acton Storm Tanks. To drive the Frogmore connection tunnel to King Georges Park and to Carnwath Road Riverside and to intercept and divert flow from the Frogmore Storm Relief Bell Lane Creek CSO. To intercept and divert flow from the Frogmore Storm Relief Buckhold Road CSO. To intercept and divert flow from the Falconbrook Pumping Station CSO.

Dormay Street, north of Dormay Street and west of The Causeway, London Borough of Wandsworth

King Georges Park, south of the intersection between Buckhold Road and Neville Gill Close, London Borough of Wandsworth Falconbrook Pumping Station, east of York Road and west of Lavender Road, London Borough of Wandsworth

Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore Chambers Wharf and Shad Thames Pumping Station Greenwich connection tunnel route Earl Pumping Station Deptford Church Street

Cremorne Wharf Depot, east of Lots Road between the River To intercept and divert flow from the Lots Road Pumping Station CSO. Thames and the Lots Road Pumping Station, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Chelsea Embankment Foreshore, on the foreshore south of the Royal Hospital Chelseas South Grounds and partly within Chelsea Embankment and Ranelagh Gardens, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Kirtling Street, either side of Cringle Street, London Borough of Wandsworth Heathwall Pumping Station, on the foreshore west of Elm Quay and north of Nine Elms Lane, London Borough of Wandsworth Albert Embankment Foreshore, on the foreshore to the west of Albert Embankment between St Georges Wharf and Tintagel House, London Borough of Lambeth Victoria Embankment Foreshore, on the foreshore east of Victoria Embankment between Northumberland Avenue and Horse Guards Avenue, London Borough of Westminster To intercept and divert flow from the Ranelagh CSO and control and divert flow from the northern Low Level Sewer No.1. To drive the main tunnel to Carnwath Road Riverside and to Chambers Wharf. To intercept and divert flow from the Heathwall Pumping Station CSO and South West Storm Relief CSO. To intercept and divert flow from the Brixton Storm Relief CSO and the Clapham Storm Relief CSO. To control and divert flow from the northern Low Level Sewer No.1.

Greenwich Pumping Station

King Edward Memorial Park Foreshore and Bekesbourne Street

Newham Town Hall, 1000 Dockside Road, E16 2QU*; Tower Hamlets Council Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, E14 2BG*; Tower Hamlets Ideas Store, Gladstone Place, Bow, E3 5ES**; Tower Hamlets Idea Store, Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, E14 5RB**

Abbey Mills Pumping Station Newham Town Hall, 1000 Dockside Road, E16 2QU*; Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, Stratford E15 1EL** and Beckton Sewage Treatment Works

To intercept and divert flow from the Fleet Main Blackfriars Bridge Foreshore, on the foreshore south of Victoria Embankment between Temple Avenue and Blackfriars CSO and control and divert flow from the northern Bridge and adjacent to Paul's Walk, west of Blackfriars Station, Low Level Sewer No.1. City of London Chambers Wharf, on the foreshore and north of Chambers To receive the main tunnel from Kirtling Street and Street to the west of Loftie Street, London Borough of Southwark the Greenwich connection tunnel from Greenwich Pumping Station and to drive the main tunnel to Abbey Mills Pumping Station. Earl Pumping Station, east of Croft Street, south of Chiltern Street and south of Yeoman Street, London Borough of Lewisham Deptford Church Street, west of Deptford Church Street and north of Crossfield Street and south of Coffey Street, London Borough of Lewisham To intercept and divert flow from the Earl Pumping Station CSO. To intercept and divert flow from the Deptford Storm Relief CSO.

Asterisks indicate the format in which the documentation is available for viewing at each of the specified locations above. * hard copies of documents, plans and maps **electronic copy of documents, plans and maps on the project website (see below for website address) The documents, plans and maps showing the nature and location of the proposed development are available for inspection from 16 July to 5 October 2012 at the locations specified in Table 2 during their published opening hours. A CD or hard copies of these documents, plans and maps are available on request and copies can be made available in large print, Braille or audio format. To request copies of the documents please contact us using the details specified below. The proposed application will also seek authorisation for the compulsory acquisition of land and interests in and rights over land, overriding easements and other rights, the temporary use of land, the temporary and permanent stopping up of highways and the interference with public rights of way and navigation. A telephone translation helpline service is also available. Please contact us on 0800 0721 086. All responses to the publicity of the proposed application must be submitted by 5 pm on 5 October 2012. Only written responses can be accepted. They should be submitted as follows: y post to: Thames Tunnel, Thames Water, B Freepost SCE 9923, PO Box 522, Swindon SN2 8LA y email to: B thames.tunnel@thameswater.co.uk nline via the project website: O www.thamestunnelconsultation.co.uk When deciding on the final form of the application for the development consent order for the project, we will take into account any response to this publicity of our proposed application that is received before the specified deadline. Details of responses to the publicity exercise will be made public in accordance with the requirements of the Planning Act 2008.

Greenwich Pumping Station, west of Norman Road and north To intercept and divert flow from the Greenwich of Greenwich High Road and including Phoenix Wharf to the Pumping Station CSO. north of the railway viaduct, Royal Borough of Greenwich King Edward Memorial Park Foreshore, on the foreshore and To intercept and divert flow from North East Storm to the south of The Highway and east of Glamis Road, London Relief Sewer CSO. Borough of Tower Hamlets Abbey Mills Pumping Station, east of Prescott Channel and west of Abbey Creek and Channelsea River and south of The Greenway, London Borough of Newham To receive the main tunnel from Chambers Wharf.