Greenwich Council has eased back on a scheme to bring dockless cycle hire to the borough after two firms providing a scheme in Southwark scaled back their coverage. Southwark Council began a trial with Ofo and Mobike earlier this year to bring a hire scheme to its borough. Users download an app which controls locks […]
October 2018
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Greenwich’s Sam Manners House to close despite neighbours’ worries
Greenwich Council’s cabinet has backed plans to close a sheltered housing block in east Greenwich, despite neighbours’ worries that the building will be left empty for years. Councillors want the site of Sam Manners House, in Tuskar Street, to be used for new council housing if a bid to City Hall for funding is successful. […]
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Greenwich School Streets: Car bans delayed after council blunder
Greenwich Council has postponed the start of a scheme banning cars around four schools after it gave residents just few days’ notice of the plan. Two schools in Eltham and one each in Abbey Wood and Greenwich were due to be covered by the programme, which aims to cut pollution levels and make streets safer. […]
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Spray Street demolitions: Woolwich Public Market gets Grade II listed status
Controversial plans to knock down and redevelop Woolwich’s historic covered market have hit a setback after Historic England gave the 1930s structure a Grade II listing. A Greenwich Council-backed scheme seeks to demolish the 1936 Public Market and surrounding buildings – including scores of businesses run by and for black and ethnic minority communities – […]
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The lost Independent: A railway station sign that’s a piece of journalism history
Not a word from 853‘s turf investment advisor and special correspondent MERCURY MAN for a while. Can only assume he’s had a bad few weeks in the betting shop. But we’ve got none other than MERCURY WOMAN to step into the breach (apologies, MW, we’re struggling with the artwork…) A few years ago I was […]
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Greenwich sheltered housing block set to be replaced by new council housing
Greenwich Council signed off on its plans to build 750 new council homes last night – with a sheltered housing complex in east Greenwich set to be redeveloped as part of the scheme. The council’s cabinet agreed the plans, which include starting 750 new council homes before 2022 along identifying sites for a further 300 […]
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Music, horns and sirens as Woolwich Ferry bids farewell to its 1960s vessels
The vessels that have run the Woolwich Ferry for the past 55 years made their last trips on Friday night before the service closed for a three-month refurbishment. The three ships, the John Burns, the Ernest Bevin and the James Newman, have plied the route between Woolwich and North Woolwich since 1963. But they have […]
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Council and heritage trust sorry after bungled Greenwich archive closure
Greenwich Council and the Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust have apologised for the way they handled the closure of the borough’s archive after the issue threatened to hold up plans for the £31 million “creative district” in Woolwich. Angry archive users addressed Tuesday night’s planning board meeting, which gave approval for the change of use of […]
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