Plans to close three of Greenwich Council’s staffed adventure play centres will go ahead after a challenge to the decision was thrown out – despite councillors being told of pleas from children to keep one of the venues. Users of the Coldharbour centre in Mottingham said they would feel unsafe without the centre, a scrutiny […]
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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Greenwich Council sorry after banning anti-LTN leaflet from town hall
Greenwich Council has apologised after town hall security staff banned people from bringing in copies of a leaflet criticising its decision to press on with a low-traffic neighbourhood. The council decided last month to make the rush-hour traffic scheme permanent after a series of consultations ended. The LTN stops drivers from using north-south roads either […]
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Green light for co-living homes to replace Woolwich’s Poundstretcher store
The Poundstretcher store in Woolwich is set to be knocked down and replaced with a six-storey block containing 156 co-living homes – and work could start this year. Greenwich Council’s planning board approved the scheme, which councillors were told would improve the look of Beresford Square, at its meeting last week. The block, which would […]
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Lewisham’s closed Ravensbourne Arms could be turned into ten-room HMO
Update, May 1: The planning application has been withdrawn, Salamander News reports. A pub in Lewisham that had been at the centre of a campaign to turn it into a community music venue could become a ten-room HMO if a developer is successful. The Ravensbourne Arms on Lewisham High Street closed in 2016 after the […]
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Developers apply to snuff out Charlton’s closed Pickwick pub for good
A long-closed pub in Charlton could be snuffed out for good after developers applied to turn it into commercial premises. The Pickwick, on Woolwich Road, has been shut since 2017 and has since had housing built on the site of its beer garden. Past plans to demolish the building were refused in 2018 after neighbours […]
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Plan for 20-storey tower behind Greenwich Ikea given go-ahead
Plans for a 20-storey tower behind Greenwich’s Ikea store have been approved by councillors, despite complaints from neighbours that the development would replace what was previously planned to be green space. The tower, which would be part of the final phase of Greenwich Millennium Village, replaces a plan for a six-storey commercial building that was […]
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Greenwich councillors approve 5 per cent council tax hike
Greenwich councillors signed off a 4.99 per cent council tax increase on Thursday – but Labour representatives were accused of laughing when the fate of the borough’s adventure play centres were raised. The increase is the maximum allowed without a referendum or special permission from the government – a 2.99 per cent rise plus a […]
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Deptford Creek student blocks thrown out by inspector over views from Greenwich
Plans for nearly 600 student rooms on Deptford Creek would cause serious harm to views from Greenwich’s historic town centre, a planning inspector has ruled. Greenwich Council’s planning board threw out Your Tribe’s plans for 13 and 17-storey blocks off Creek Road last year, but the developer appealed against the decision. After a four-day public […]
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