The Silvertown Tunnel risks becoming a fiasco like Boris Johnson’s collapsed Garden Bridge project, a London Assembly member has warned Sadiq Khan. Caroline Pidgeon, a Liberal Democrat, has pressed the mayor to halt work on the new road between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, telling him in a letter that she cannot understand why […]
May 2019
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Parents’ fury over academy chain’s cutbacks at Brooklands Primary School
Parents at a Blackheath primary school are accusing its academy chain of “a failure of competence” after it announced plans to cut staff who they say are vital to their children’s wellbeing. Two office staff at Brooklands primary school are understood to be at risk of losing their jobs after Maritime Academy Trust, which runs […]
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Only one parking ticket per day issued at notorious Plumstead Road troublespot
Greenwich Council has issued an average of only one parking ticket per day in the past year on a road which has become notorious for drivers blocking a bus lane with parked cars. Only 425 fixed penalty notices were issued on all of Plumstead Road between April 2018 and March 2019, according to an answer […]
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Only Labour councillors need to know about Greenwich cabinet roles, town hall told
Only Labour councillors need to know how Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe picks his cabinet, councillors were told last night after opposition members questioned why his deputy had been “downgraded” to “cabinet member for bollards”. The usually brief and uncontroversial annual general meeting – which chooses the ceremonial mayor and ratifies who will hold key […]
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Greenwich Council’s deputy leader to become cabinet member for bollards
The humble and much-maligned Greenwich Council bollard now has a new friend – the authority’s deputy leader David Gardner has become the cabinet member for public realm. Formerly the cabinet member for children’s services, Gardner’s new role is the biggest change in Danny Thorpe’s first cabinet reshuffle as council leader. With the poor state of […]
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Climate protesters stage Silvertown Tunnel protest at City Hall
Climate change activists have protested outside City Hall this morning as part of a new campaign against the planned Silvertown Tunnel. Protesters met London Assembly members Caroline Pidgeon (Lib Dem) and Caroline Russell (Green) and handed in a letter for mayor Sadiq Khan asking him to scrap the £1 billion project to build a new […]
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Abbey Wood businesses being ‘crucified’ by Crossrail delays
Struggling Abbey Wood businesses say they are being “crucified” by the ongoing delays to the opening of Crossrail. The major transport link was supposed to be up and running from December last year, but a series of controversial pushbacks have seen it delayed until spring 2020 at the earliest – and maybe as late as […]
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Over 50? Want to keep fit? Get down to Long Lane JFC’s Active 50 Club
853‘s Community Spotlight feature is here to tell you what local groups are up to. This week, it’s the turn of Long Lane Junior Football Club… The biggest junior football club in Greenwich borough has opened its doors for fun and fitness for the over 50s… for FREE. Long Lane JFC in Dursley Road, Kidbrooke […]
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