A small number of Extinction Rebellion demonstrators held a socially-distanced protest outside outside the Greenwich Council’s headquarters in Woolwich to tell it to “build back better” after the coronavirus emergency has passed. The 14 demonstrators, with masks and placards, each stood two metres apart on the steps of the Woolwich Centre in Wellington Street for […]
May 2020
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TfL bailout: Scrapping free child travel will cost us £16m, councils tell government
London’s 32 borough councils want the government to scrap the suspension of free travel for under-18s, complaining that it will cost them £16 million and will be impossible to administer before the new school year. Transport secretary Grant Shapps imposed the condition two weeks ago as part of a £1.6 billion bailout of Transport for […]
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Greenwich Foot Tunnel to open at weekends again after virus shutdown
Greenwich Foot Tunnel will stay open this weekend after several weeks of closures during the coronavirus lockdown. The tunnel, which runs between Cutty Sark Gardens in Greenwich and Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs, closed suddenly on 5 April because of crowds of people in the tunnel. It has been closed every weekend since […]
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Greenwich councillor criticises PM as he is stumped by benefits policy
A senior Greenwich councillor has turned on the prime minister after he appeared not to know about a government policy that leaves council taxpayers paying to support people who are refused benefits. Boris Johnson appeared not to know about the “no recourse for public funds” (NRPF) policy, which stops thousands of migrants from claiming most […]
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Limited access to Old Royal Naval College grounds from 8 June
The Old Royal Naval College will allow people to walk and cycle through its grounds again from 8 June – but only on weekdays, and only between 8am and 6pm. People have been banned from walking and cycling through the grounds since the beginning of the coronavirus emergency – a ban which was swiftly followed […]
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Greenwich Park to stay open to 9pm from next Monday
Greenwich Park will stay open until 9pm from next Monday in a slight easing of the lockdown measures caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The park’s closure time has been frozen at 7pm since the crisis began – in normal times the park would now be closing at 9pm. Crowds flocked to the park over the […]
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Pandemic delays work on new Leigh Academy Blackheath school buildings
Plans to open new school buildings in Blackheath have been hit by the coronavirus emergency, forcing an academy group to put up pupils in an old military building for a second time. A groundbreaking ceremony took place at Leigh Academy Blackheath in Old Dover Road in July 2019, eight months after a new free school […]
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‘It’s an insult to us all’: Greenwich Tory leader tells No 10 aide Cummings to go
The leader of Greenwich Council’s Conservative opposition has joined calls for Boris Johnson’s closest aide to resign – calling his actions in taking his family from London to Durham while his wife had coronavirus symptoms “a personal insult to us all”. Nigel Fletcher, a former adviser on education to the Tories, spoke out this morning […]
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