Greenwich Council leader Anthony Okereke has tightened his grip on the town hall in a cabinet reshuffle less than five months before the next election. As well as being leader, Okereke will now also be cabinet member for planning and regeneration, The Greenwich Wire can reveal. The deputy leader, Averil Lekau, has been effectively demoted […]
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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Zipcar’s planned closure ‘is a failure by London’s transport authorities’
Zipcar’s withdrawal from London represents a failure by the capital’s transport authorities, politicians at City Hall have said, with just one week left until the service is set to close. The car-sharing platform has about 550,000 members in London, who rent cars and vans by the hour or for a day via an app, and […]
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Greenwich Council scraps most of its ‘sustainable streets’ CPZ schemes
Greenwich Council has scrapped most of its “sustainable streets” plans to introduce controlled parking zones across a whole swathe of the borough after five months of controversy. The scheme would have involved introducing permit parking and paid parking, as well as space for bikes and car club vehicles in residential streets across much of the […]
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Danson Park could Go Ape with zip wire course planned
Zip wires could be coming to Danson Park after the outdoor adventure company Go Ape applied for permission to build a high ropes course. Go Ape, which already operates courses at Alexandra Palace and Battersea Park, plans to install the course in woodland to the north and west of the park in Bexleyheath. A changing […]
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Worries for Winter Garden as plans for Avery Hill boys’ school set to be axed
Plans to convert the University of Greenwich’s old Mansion site at Avery Hill into a school look set to be scrapped – throwing plans to refurbish one of southeast London’s hidden gems into uncertainty. The historic mansion and adjoining buildings next to Avery Hill Park in Eltham, once used as a teacher training college, was […]
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No plans to redevelop £1.4m Plumstead High Street car park, new owner says
The new owner of a car park offloaded for more than £1.4 million in a Greenwich Council “fire sale” says it has no plans to develop the site. Abery Street car park, off Plumstead High Street, was one of two car parks to be sold at auction last Thursday, with a “Mrs Y” named as […]
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Greenwich’s Borough Hall escapes licence suspension over noise
The historic Borough Hall in west Greenwich has escaped having its licence suspended after its neighbours complained about noise. Pat Slattery, a Labour councillor for Greenwich Park ward, had called for its licence to be suspended for three months after complaints about its customers disturbing neighbours when leaving the building, as well as noise from […]
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TfL bus fares frozen until summer as ‘cost of living measure’
Bus fares will be frozen again next year as an “emergency cost-of-living measure” – but only until the summer, London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has said. Tube, DLR, Elizabeth Line and London Overground fares will be going up by 10p or 20p after the Labour government agreed to give £2.2 billion in funding to TfL […]
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