A colourful immersive art show will come to Woolwich Works over Easter, featuring winding tunnels and cavernous domes to “encourage curiosity, play and innovation”. The inflatable Luminarium: Myriad, which will open on April 2 for five days, is billed as “a feast for the senses and an adventure for all ages”. Ambient music will play […]
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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Overmono are first act confirmed for Old Royal Naval College music festival
The electronic duo Overmono are the first act to be confirmed for the Labyrinth on the Thames music festival when it returns to the Old Royal Naval College for the first three weekends in August. Overmono – brothers Tom and Ed Russell – have played at Glastonbury and All Points East as well as a […]
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Potholes row: Greenwich Council’s roads were in ‘managed decline’, staff admitted
Greenwich Council officers described their borough’s road network as being in “managed decline” two years before the government gave it a “red” rating for the way it dealt with potholes. The Greenwich Wire can also reveal that only just over a year ago, councillors were warned that Greenwich’s budget for road maintenance was one of […]
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Lewisham shopping centre development set to inch forward with council deal
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, […]
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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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