A disabled woman living in a Greenwich Council flat has been told to rely on volunteers to bring in food because her usual access route to her home has been cut off by contractors building new homes. Louise Noyce lives in a block of flats in Charlton next door to where Meridian Home Start, a […]
January 2021
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Don’t drive to Greenwich Park – stay local during lockdown, park bosses plead
The charity that runs Greenwich Park have pleaded with people not to drive to the park during this lockdown – and enjoy their local open spaces instead. Royal Parks has issued the plea alongside other park operators in London to try to reduce overcrowding in the capital’s green spaces. In Greenwich Park, the viewpoint at […]
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Get involved with £500m Catford redevelopment plans, locals urged
A senior Lewisham councillor has urged local people join online consultation events about plans for a major redevelopment of Catford town centre. Paul Bell, the cabinet member for housing and planning, spoke after residents raised concerns about a lack of publicity around the events. Lewisham Council plans to revamp the area as part of a […]
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Fast, free Covid-19 testing comes to Woolwich’s Waterfront centre
Greenwich borough residents who are not showing coronavirus symptoms can now book fast, free tests at the Waterfront Leisure Centre to see if they have Covid-19. The tests are being made available as part of a borough-wide community testing programme and are also on offer at locations in Greenwich, Charlton and Eltham. Results will be […]
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80 Greenwich Council homes approved as Brook Estate residents criticise ‘aggressive’ town hall
Controversial plans for 80 council homes on green space in Kidbrooke were finally approved last night – but with neighbours complaining that they had received “unnecessarily aggressive” communications from Greenwich Council as they tried to challenge the scheme. The development on Rochester Way, which is part of the Greenwich Builds programme to start work on […]
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Lewisham’s Ravensbourne Arms could reopen as community music venue
Lewisham’s closed Ravensbourne Arms pub could reopen as a community-run music venue if a Deptford record shop’s ambitious campaign is successful. The pub closed in October 2016, shortly after pub and property company Antic secured planning permission for flats above the bar on Lewisham High Street. The bar closed when Antic sold the property. Now […]
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Online memorial service marks 40 years since New Cross fire disaster
An online memorial service will take place today to mark 40 years since the New Cross fire disaster, which led to the deaths of 14 young people. Thirteen people died in the early hours of 18 January 1981 when the fire broke out at a 16th birthday in a house on New Cross Road. The […]
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Mercury Man: From Deptford High Street to the mayor of Wells
Local journalism isn’t normally the way to fame and fortune – but one hack from SE London’s long-gone local paper has made it big in the West Country. 853‘s special correspondent MERCURY MAN caught up with an old friend… Taxi outside. Zooming to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, about me knees. Not sure if I’m under […]
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