Plans to knock down Lewisham shopping centre and replace it with 1,700 homes and a new mall are set to take a small but vital step forward next week when plans for the council to compulsorily purchase the Citibank tower are discussed. Lewisham councillors backed the plans, put forward by the shopping centre’s owner Landsec, […]
Darryl Chamberlain
Journalist and SE Londoner. Founder/editor of The Greenwich Wire (also reporter, sub-editor, features editor, membership manager, head of finance and business development manager).
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Land deal could revive plans for more Deptford Creek towers
Long-delayed plans for more tall towers on Deptford Creek could be revived, with Lewisham Council set to sell a portion of land to the insurance giant Legal & General. Councillors had approved plans from the developers Kitewood and Galliard to build 393 flats in 26 and 30-storey towers at Copperas Street in November 2020. The […]
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Goldsmiths University to open campus in Catford’s Old Town Hall
Goldsmiths University is to open a campus in the centre of Catford – with more than 600 fine art and design students expected to move in. The university, which can date its history in New Cross back to Victorian times, is expected to take a ten-year lease in the Old Town Hall, across the road […]
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Noise complaints hit Greenwich Peninsula theatre – before it is built
A new theatre on the Greenwich Peninsula has attracted complaints about noise – before its stages and auditoriums have even been built. Councillors are due to make a decision on whether the Troubadour Greenwich Peninsula can go ahead at a meeting next week. Planning officers have recommended approving the scheme. Branded “London’s boldest new theatre”, […]
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Greenwich rated ‘red’ for its potholes — but council disputes the data
Greenwich has been named as one of the worst local authorities in England for the way it deals with potholes – but the council disputed the government’s figures and said it had concerns about how they were calculated. The Labour council is one of 13 rated “red” over the way it spends public money on […]
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Woolwich’s Old Town Hall set to become artists’ studios
Woolwich’s Old Town Hall is set to be turned into artists’ studios, two years after it was renovated as part of a £17.1 million project to rejuvenate the town centre. The building in Calderwood Street, which dates back to 1842 and is one of London’s oldest surviving local government buildings, is set to be leased […]
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‘Turquoise monstrosity’ flats near Oxleas Wood to change colour and lose floor
A new block of flats to be built close to Oxleas Wood will lose its distinctive colouring and have a floor lopped off under updated plans submitted to Greenwich Council. Meridian Home Start, a company spun off from the council nearly a decade ago, won permission in 2024 for a seven-storey block with 63 rented […]
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Greenwich Council’s clampdown on HMOs in Local Plan ‘lacks teeth’
Greenwich Council’s plans to clamp down on family homes being split into rented rooms “lack teeth”, according to the borough’s Conservatives. The council has proposed tightening rules on when it will allow homes of multiple occupation (HMOs) in its draft Local Plan, which residents can now comment on. All councils must have a local plan, […]
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