The Labyrinth on the Thames music festival plans to return to the Old Royal Naval College next year with a bigger event spread across nine days. This year’s dance and electronic music festival took place over the first two weekends in August. The Grammy-winning DJ Black Coffee was the first headliner, before the band Empire […]
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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TfL does not want to take over Greenwich’s foot tunnels, campaigners told
Transport for London is not interested in taking over the Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels, a Greenwich councillor has said. A petition calling for TfL to take over the two Thames crossings – which are currently run by Greenwich Council – passed 1,000 signatures on Friday afternoon. But Calum O’Byrne Mulligan, the interim cabinet member […]
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Clean up your language, council leader told after swearing in fly-tipping ad
Greenwich Council’s leader has been told to mind his language after releasing a sweary video to promote an anti-flytipping initiative. Anthony Okereke said that fly-tipping was “lazy and criminal, and we’re not putting up with this shit any more” in a press release and social media videos issued on Monday, with the offending word either […]
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Greenwich’s Ikea store could get a 20-storey tower as a neighbour
Greenwich’s Ikea store could get a 20-storey tower for a neighbour after the developers of the Millennium Village submitted new plans for the final phase of the site. But neighbours are unhappy because a planned green space would be built upon as part of the scheme. They say the development’s slogan of “village life in […]
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Greenwich Council spends £5m on fly-tipping in pre-election splurge
Greenwich Council is promising to spend £5 million on a fly-tipping crackdown as the ruling Labour group gets ready for its most difficult election in decades. The cash, to be spent over the next four and a half years, is part of a package of spending promises being announced by the council, with just six […]
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Bob’s Your Uncle! Tasty rent deal for Woolwich market square’s café
Greenwich Council has found a new operator for the new café in Woolwich’s revamped market square – but for less rent than it was hoping for. Bob’s Your Uncle, which has branches in Eltham and South Croydon, has been selected as the preferred operator for the space in the new pavilion on Beresford Square, which […]
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Woolwich Barracks plan ‘honours military history’, council leader says
Plans to redevelop Woolwich Barracks when the army moves out will honour “our borough’s unique military history”, Greenwich Council’s leader has said – even though it has ruled out using the main building for the civic archive. A consultation about the masterplan has now opened, with residents being asked for their views about what the […]
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Greenwich cable structure given same protection as Tower of London
A structure in Greenwich that was instrumental in the first transatlantic telephone calls has been given the same protection as Stonehenge and the Tower of London. The cable hauler and winding gear by the Thames at Enderby Wharf, last used in 1978, have now been declared a nationally-important historical site by Historic England, after a […]
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