Greenwich Council has reassured residents that it has no plans to sell or build on any of its allotments after a political row broke out at Westminster over the issue. Neighbouring Lewisham and Bexley also say they have no plans to do away with allotments, with hundreds of residents on waiting lists across the three […]
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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Last orders for never-opened Woolwich pub as plan for shops submitted
Hopes that Woolwich town centre would get a new pub look set to be dead without a pint being served after plans to turn the site into two shop units were submitted. The pub group Antic had long planned to open The Volunteer at the west end of Powis Street, next to the former Co-op […]
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Woolwich’s Poundstretcher store could be replaced by 160 co-living homes
Woolwich’s Poundstretcher store and a neighbouring shop could be pulled down and replaced with 160 co-living homes. The developers behind the scheme, Buccleuch Property and Packaged Living, announced that they had bought the site on Beresford Square earlier this year and held a brief consultation in May. Now plans to tear down the old supermarket […]
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Public hearing for row over Trafalgar Tavern’s riverside seats
A public hearing into a row between Greenwich Council and the owner of the Trafalgar Tavern pub over its expansion of its beer garden onto the Thames Path will begin next week. The council served an enforcement notice at the end of March demanding that tables and chairs should be cleared from the ramp at […]
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Eltham needs a banking hub, Greenwich councillors declare
Greenwich’s Labour and Conservative councillors have united to call for a banking hub to open in Eltham High Street. Santander closed last month and Halifax will shut in October, leaving Nationwide Building Society as the last financial institution with a presence in the area. Most banks across the borough of Greenwich have closed in recent […]
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Stop being negative about Woolwich, Greenwich Labour councillor says
A Greenwich Labour councillor has poured scorn on criticism of the revamped public spaces of Woolwich, telling one of her political rivals not to be so negative about the area. Jackie Smith said that residents needed to “behave” and not leave litter in the town centre, which has had a £17.1 million refurbishment with new […]
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Greenwich HMO crackdown is coming – but residents will have to wait
Greenwich Council plans a crackdown on family homes being converted into bedsits – but anxious residents could have to wait as long as three years for change to take place because of national planning laws. There are more than 800 licensed homes of multiple occupation (HMOs) in the borough, and the number is rising with […]
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Greenwich Council leader talking to Army about Olympic equestrian centre
Greenwich Council leader Anthony Okereke has said he is in talks with the Army about the Olympic legacy equestrian centre at Shooters Hill – three weeks after The Greenwich Wire reported that the military was interested in the site. The centre, which was opened in a blaze of publicity by Princess Anne in 2013, closed […]
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