It’s that time of year. News has emerged from Woolwich Town Hall that, once again, Greenwich Council is planning to celebrate the inauguration of another new mayor with another lavish bash at the Old Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall. The event’s scheduled for 22 May. Like most boroughs, Greenwich’s mayor is elected by councillors to […]
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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Revealed: Greenwich Council’s Eltham ‘DLR on stilts’ report
As Greenwich’s Labour councillors get ready to vote tonight on whether or not they’ll give long-serving leader Chris Roberts the heave-ho, here’s an example of the secretive culture that challenger John Fahy wants to overturn. Last December, the council agreed to spend £45,000 on further studies into a possible DLR extension to Eltham, which would […]
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Woolwich riot: The report Greenwich Council tried to hide
It’s seven months since Woolwich burned in last summer’s riots. So it seems a good time to share with you a document I had a bit of trouble obtaining – an internal report into how Greenwich Council handled the aftermath of the disturbances. The report was compiled for the 40 Labour Party councillors – the […]
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853 reader beats press and politicians to royal borough sums
I couldn’t be at Wednesday night’s Greenwich Council meeting, having been otherwise occupied for much of this week. So, instead of watching councillors row over debate our council tax bills, I was on the sofa with a laptop, the England match, and a chilled glass of Dioralyte. There’s a lot of it about, you know. […]
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No horses, no Irish – NOGOE goes back to the 70s
The latest communiques from NOGOE, the always open-minded opponents of the Olympics in Greenwich Park. If they’re trying to work out why nobody’s listening to their claims that the rebuilding of the Blackheath gates (and the remodelling of an iffy junction) is “Olympic vandalism”, then these might provide an answer… 9pm update: I’ve tidied the […]
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Sealed with our cash – Greenwich councillors get royal certificates
Thank you to the kind person who managed to sneakily snap this for me… Every Greenwich councillor was given one of these last week – a commemorative certificate, with a seal, to mark the fact that they are part of a council serving a royal borough. It’s worth remembering it’s the borough – which contains […]
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Watching Greenwich Council – if you don’t do it, nobody else will
The News Shopper did something unexpected last week. It published a story bemoaning the secrecy which surrounds Greenwich Council. All very good stuff. Of course, they’re entirely correct – huge decisions are being taken by senior councillors with very few checks and balances in place. What they’re not saying, though, is how the ailing local […]
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Council eyes 40,000-capacity arena for Greenwich Peninsula
Thought one concert arena was enough for the Greenwich Peninsula? Plans released by Greenwich Council reveal it’s giving serious consideration to a second, open-air, arena on the west side of the peninsula. The idea is floated in a new masterplan for Greenwich Peninsula West, designed to set out how the area could look in 15 […]
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