The team has recently covered the shaft that leads down to the new sewer. From February 2024 beams and pre-cast slabs have been placed onto the top of the shaft to gradually form the cover slab. Read more in our information sheet - March 2024.

Once the Tideway shaft, tunnelling and underground works at the Earl Pumping Station site are complete, a permanent electrical and control kiosk structure will be built above the ground, to house the equipment needed to operate the sewer.

In January 2023 we made a submission to Lewisham Council for the detailed design of the permanent above ground works at our Earl Pumping Station site. More information is available here. 

If you have any questions about this or our site at Earl Pumping Station please get in touch with our helpdesk on 08000 30 80 80 or [email protected]  

Extended hours are currently being used. These are:  

• Monday to Friday: 8am to 10pm 
• Saturday: 8am to 5pm 

Standard working hours are:

• Monday to Friday: 8am to 6pm 
• Saturday: 8am to 1pm 

There is a 1-hour mobilisation period before and after the times listed above.

Our last meeting was on 27 February 2023. If you would like to join the next meeting, email [email protected].

Presentation and notes from recent meetings can be found below.

• 27 February 2024 presentation and notes
• 22 February 2023 presentation and notes
• 15 June 2022 - Community Liaison Working Group drop in slides
• 1 November 2021 - Community Liaison Working Group notes and slides
• 8 July 2021 - Community Liaison Working Group minutes and presentation
• 20 October 2020 - Community Liaison Working group presentation

Previous minutes are available upon request, please contact the Tideway Helpdesk on 08000 30 80 80 or email [email protected]

• All static machinery and plant is screened or enclosed
• The excavated material handling area will be enclosed
• Vehicle movements outside of standard hours are restricted
• Hoarding erected on the site boundaries
• All concrete used at the site will be delivered premixed and no concrete batching will take place onsite
• A one-way transport system for all routine vehicles - entering the site from Plough Way, right turn into Yeoman St and right turn into the site; and exiting from Croft Street, along Chiltern Grove and Yeoman Street, then along Plough Way
• Footpath diversions clearly signposted

• Call our 24 hour Tideway Helpdesk 08000 30 80 80 or email [email protected]
• Read the latest updates on the noticeboards on our hoardings.
• Email our Community Relations team to answer your questions or meet with you, via [email protected]
• Join our Community Liaison Working Group meetings, to attend the meetings or receive the minutes and presentations from past meetings, email [email protected]. 

You can also sign up to receive information updates and newsletters via [email protected].

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The Tideway construction site sits within an existing Thames Water Pumping Station site. Once Tideway finishes construction the site will remain a Thames Water owned and operated site.

Artist Lubna Chowdhary has been commissioned by Tideway to create an artwork for Earl Pumping Station, read more here.