SE Londoners will be able to enjoy the £6.8 million regeneration of the area’s largest park from next weekend – including a much-anticipated new lake for wild swimming. Lewisham Council is putting the final touches to Beckenham Place Park ahead of a launch event on Saturday, with the restored Georgian lake the centrepiece of the three-and-a-half-year project. The […]
July 2019
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Hop Stuff Brewery sells out to Carling owner and leaves local investors with nothing
Woolwich’s Hop Stuff Brewery has gone into administration and been sold to beer giant Molson Coors, leaving local drinkers who invested in the company in its early days out of pocket. The company, which was founded in the Royal Arsenal in 2013, hit financial problems earlier this year after it failed to declare a move […]
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Football’s coming home? Greenwich Park set to host Euro 2020 fan zone
Greenwich Park could be hosting a “family-friendly” Euro 2020 fan zone next year as part of London’s co-hosting of Europe’s international football tournament. Part of the park could be closed in June and July next year as part of the plans, the first major event to be held there since the Olympic Games in 2012. […]
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Anger at five-year wait for outer London bus improvements
A review of outer London buses will take five years to complete, prompting outrage from politicians across the party divide. The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has now been accused of a “broken promise” for failing to prioritise transport in the outer boroughs. With bus use falling across the capital, Transport for London (TfL) recently reviewed central […]
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Morris Walk developer Lovell ‘let down’ Greenwich Council, housing chief says
Greenwich Council has been “badly let down” by the developer in charge of rebuilding the crumbling Morris Walk Estate, its senior councillor in charge of housing said last night as it approved plans to knock down the 1960s estate. The council entered into a 12-year deal with Lovell in 2012 to redevelop the Connaught Estate […]
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TfL drops Bakerloo objection to 35-storey Lewisham student tower
Transport for London has dropped its main objection to a 35-storey tower block next to Lewisham station after fears it would interfere with plans for the Bakerloo Line extension. Approval has already been granted for a scheme to build blocks of 16 and 30 storeys on the site of the former Carpetright store on Loampit […]
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Just one Greenwich Tory councillor joins Johnson’s ‘Back Boris’ list
Just one Greenwich Tory has put their name on a list of 1,000 councillors backing Boris Johnson’s push to be the next prime minister. John Hills, one of the three councillors for Coldharbour and New Eltham, is the only one of Greenwich’s 11 Conservatives included in what the Johnson campaign calls “an unprecedented level of […]
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Mercury Man: A little bit of Barcelona in Grove Park
I do some kidding in this column, mostly by way of a quirky, welcoming intro, but this time I don’t need to do any of that but just hand over to CAROL STAPLES, a former colleague at the Merc under Roger Norman’s regime in Deptford High Street. Carol, basically, was chief reporter and different class… […]
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