New Docklands Light Railway trains will finally return to service by late summer, Transport for London has announced – but parts of the network will need to be closed at times so further tests can take place. Three of the new B23 trains started running on the Stratford International to Woolwich Arsenal route in September […]
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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New plans for Morden Wharf deferred over plan to cut affordable housing
Greenwich councillors have deferred a decision on revised plans for the 36-storey Morden Wharf development after the company behind it said it wanted to cut the proportion of affordable homes on the site. The 1,500-home scheme, on the old Tunnel Refineries site on the west side of the Greenwich Peninsula, caused a furore when it […]
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Summer shutdown at Charing Cross and Waterloo East for track works
Charing Cross and Waterloo East stations will be closed for 22 days during the summer holidays so engineers can replace “increasingly unreliable” old track. Trains will still run, but will either terminate at London Bridge or be diverted to Victoria, Cannon Street or Blackfriars. The closure, between July 26 and August 16, includes the first […]
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Southeastern set to restore all-day link to Elizabeth Line in plan to reverse train cuts
Southeastern Metro trains in Greenwich and Bexley boroughs could mostly return to pre-Covid service levels by the end of the year – including bringing back an all-day direct link to the Elizabeth Line at Abbey Wood. “Rounder” services that linked the Greenwich and Sidcup lines on Mondays to Saturdays could be reintroduced as soon as […]
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Greenwich’s adventure play centres do not cut crime, council says
Greenwich Council has said there is no evidence that its five staffed adventure play centres have reduced crime in the borough, as councillors prepare to challenge a decision to close three of them. Conservative councillors Matt Hartley and Roger Tester have “called in” the closures, as have Green councillor Lakshan Saldin and independent Majella Anning. […]
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Greenwich Council set to privatise its traffic wardens
Greenwich’s Labour council has confirmed plans to privatise the borough’s traffic wardens to cope with possible growth in parking zones across the borough. Outsourcing parking enforcement would run contradict promises from Sir Keir Starmer’s government, made as recently as last month, to bring public services in-house, instead of contracting them out to private businesses. A […]
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Silvertown Tunnel buses will be free until May, TfL confirms
The three buses that run through the Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnels will remain free until May 27, Transport for London has said. The concession was introduced in April last year to promote the Silvertown Tunnel and the two routes running through it – the 129 between Lewisham and Great Eastern Quay and the SL4 between […]
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Kidbrooke council housing project shortlisted for architecture award
A development of council homes in Kidbrooke is on the shortlist foir a prestigious architecture prize alongside the new Sadlers Wells theatre and luxury housing in Chelsea. The 122-home development at Kidbrooke Park Road North, built by Greenwich Council, is one of 72 that have been nominated for the Royal Institute of British Architects London […]
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