Greenwich Council’s new cabinet member for transport says that she disagrees with Boris Johnson’s support for “cracking on” with low-traffic neighbourhoods. Sarah Merrill spoke out after the borough’s opposition Conservative councillors announced they were holding a public meeting about the road schemes, which seek to cut rat-running in residential roads and to make it easier […]
July 2021
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Blackwall Yard: 39-storey block and 900 homes to be built across the Thames from the O2
By Alastair Lockhart, Local Democracy Reporter for Tower Hamlets A 39-storey tower block will be built across the Thames from the O2 after Tower Hamlets Council approved nearly 900 new homes at Blackwall Yard. The five buildings in the Poplar scheme, designed by three different architecture firms, will range between nine and 39 storeys tall, […]
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Plans for 18m-high sculpture next to Greenwich Peninsula cable car unveiled
An 18-metre high sculpture could be placed next to the Thames cable car if plans from the Greenwich Peninsula’s lead developer are approved. Knight Dragon, which controls much of the land on the peninsula, has applied for planning permission to build the figure just to the east of the Emirates Air Line terminal. In an […]
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Greenwich’s Tories to hold public meeting on low-traffic neighbourhoods
Greenwich’s Conservative councillors are to hold an online public meeting next weekend about low-traffic neighbourhoods – and are demanding “proper consultation of communities across the borough” about the schemes. Low-traffic neighbourhoods have been introduced with government funding to cut rat-running in residential areas and to encourage walking and cycling in the wake of the pandemic. […]
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Greenwich Heritage Centre may not move back to Woolwich’s Royal Arsenal
The future of the Greenwich Heritage Centre remains “under discussion” and it may not move back to the Royal Arsenal as promised, councillors were told last night, three years after it was evicted from its home in Woolwich to make way for a £31m arts centre. Thousands of artefacts and historical records have been stored […]
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Councillors get no answers on whether £31m Woolwich Works has blown its budget
Greenwich councillors have voiced concerns that Woolwich’s £31 million creative district may have gone way over budget – with one saying that the final bill could be as much as £50 million. Woolwich Works is due to open in the Royal Arsenal in September after being delayed for over a year by the coronavirus crisis, […]
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More than 900 London buildings need special fire safety measures – and number is growing
More than 900 buildings across London currently require a waking watch or other fire safety measures because of defects such as flammable cladding, the capital’s fire chief has said. Waking watches involve 24-hour patrols of buildings that are known to contain fire safety defects so that residents can be warned and evacuated in the event […]
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Nearly 300 homes and new Plumstead Road college set for council approval
Plans for 294 new homes – half for shared ownership or affordable rent – and a new base for a further education college in Plumstead have been recommended for approval by Greenwich planning officers. The existing London South East Colleges (LSEC) building on Plumstead Road would be demolished and replaced with five blocks of up […]
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