Another tall student accommodation block could be built next to the Silvertown Tunnel entrance in Greenwich after planning documents were filed with the council. More than 2,000 students could be living close to the tunnel if three separate schemes in the area are built. Your Tribe, which recently had plans for student blocks by Deptford […]
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Labour’s £150 bike vouchers will transform lives, Greenwich councillor says
Greenwich Labour’s election pledge to give every child in the borough a £150 voucher to buy a new bike is an “incredible policy” that will transform children’s lives, one of the party’s councillors has said. Aidan Smith, who is seeking re-election in Greenwich Park, spoke out as the flagship policy came under criticism from rival […]
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Len Duvall: Late nights in the House of Lords are a ‘hard grind’
After Len Duvall underwent major heart surgery in 2021, he was planning to step down as Greenwich and Lewisham’s London Assembly member at the next election, three years later. But since then, Duvall, who is the only remaining member to have served on the assembly since it was created in 2000, has not only stepped […]
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Bus route 54 linking Woolwich and Lewisham hit by latest TfL cut
Another key bus route in Greenwich borough is being reduced in frequency as cash-strapped Transport for London makes more cuts to its network. Route 54, linking Woolwich with Elmers End, will be cut back from six buses an hour to five on weekdays, as part of a new timetable which begins this weekend. Evening and […]
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Traffic and housing raise hackles at busy Blackheath hustings
Traffic and housing were the hottest topics at a packed hustings for Blackheath Westcombe ward, held with a week to go until the Greenwich Council elections. Candidates from Labour, the Greens, Tories and Liberal Democrats responded to voters’ questions in front of more than 100 people at Mycenae House, while Reform stayed away. Mariam Lolavar, […]
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City Hall to investigate London’s soaring service charges
City Hall is to investigate how high service charges are affecting London’s housing crisis after assembly members found that an average household was paying nearly £4,000 per year in fees. The Greater London Authority, which is headed by the mayor, Sir Sadiq Khan, has approached the London Housing Panel – a group set up to […]
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Over 1,600 homes approved for site facing Greenwich Peninsula
A Newham councillor said she was “dismayed and heartbroken” at the low level of social-rent housing planned for a major new development opposite the Greenwich Peninsula. Property developer Ballymore won approval from councillors on Tuesday to build a new 1,667-home development at Knights Road in Silvertown on Tuesday, but just 153 homes for the borough’s […]
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Reform UK candidate criticised for already being a councillor in Kent
A Reform UK candidate in next week’s Greenwich Council elections has been criticised for standing in Woolwich when he is already a councillor in Kent. Alan Cecil, who is chair of Reform’s Greenwich branch, was elected to represent Wilmington, south of Dartford, on Kent County Council last year. He is now also on the ballot […]
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