The company which owns the historic East Greenwich gasholder says it needs to demolish the structure for safety and security reasons. SGN Ltd told Greenwich Council last week that it plans to demolish the structure, which has stood on the Greenwich Peninsula for 130 years. The council now needs to decide whether SGN should apply […]
December 2017
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Can you help the bells at Christ Church in East Greenwich ring again?
It’s all gone quiet on Trafalgar Road. 853 reader DAVID THOMSON would like you to help him get the bells ringing again at Christ Church, East Greenwich. The bell chimes at Christ Christ on Trafalgar Road have been out of action for a number of years due a faulty system which is over 20 years […]
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Greenwich Council to release tower block fire safety assessments
Greenwich Council is to release the fire safety assessments for the tower blocks it manages following concerns raised after this summer’s Grenfell Tower disaster. The council manages 94 blocks of six storeys or above, but council officers did not release the assessments to councillors at a housing scrutiny panel last month. Officials then initially refused […]
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Storm in a toilet bowl: Councillors row over £600,000 Plumstead café plan
853 exclusive: A row has blown up inside Greenwich Council’s ruling Labour party after the borough’s deputy leader appeared to sign off over £600,000 in funding to convert a disused toilet in his ward into a café and community facility. Councillors received an email last month telling them that Danny Thorpe had approved the £580,000 […]
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Tesco tower campaigners appeal to council for more social housing in Woolwich
Wednesday night at the council: A 1,407-signature petition against plans for a 27-storey tower block in front of Woolwich Tesco was presented to Greenwich Council on Wednesday night, with protesters appealing to councillors to deliver more social rented homes in Woolwich. Woolwich Common councillor and cabinet member David Gardner presented the petition, gathered by campaign […]
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Greenwich Council’s Hyland brands Tory leader ’emasculated’ in angry Taxicard row
Wednesday night at the council: Greenwich Council leader Denise Hyland angrily lashed out at local Tory leader Matt Hartley in a town hall row over planned cuts to London’s Taxicard scheme, branding him “emasculated”. The row blew up at Wednesday night’s council meeting, when Hartley asked Hyland if she would raise the issue with London […]
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Greenwich Council’s anti-Donald Trump motion passes: Why the Tories were wrong not to back it
Memories of the British National Party’s presence in south-east London during the 1990s loomed over Woolwich Town Hall on Wednesday night as Greenwich councillors debated a motion urging the Government to overturn Donald Trump’s planned state visit to the UK. 853 editor DARRYL CHAMBERLAIN, the only journalist sat in the council chamber, sets the scene […]
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Greenwich councillor threatens libel action over developers’ cash blog story
A Greenwich Labour councillor has threatened a local blog author with legal action after he was criticised over the council’s record with large developments in his ward. Peninsula ward’s Stephen Brain, who recently took part in a photocall marking the start of work on the area’s new Ikea, hit back at the writer of From […]
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