Danson Park will get a Go Ape high ropes course after Bexley councillors approved plans to shouts and groans from the public gallery. Over 2,000 people had signed a petition while 650 people lodged objections to the plan to bring a woodland adventure park to the north and west of the open space, between Welling […]
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London City Airport expansion ‘should be paused to protect residents’
Plans to expand London City Airport should be put on hold until “robust, independent real-world assessments” have been carried out to see how residents will be affected, according to a London Assembly member. Two years ago the government approved a proposal to increase capacity from 6.5 million to 9 million passengers a year by putting […]
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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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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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My work in oil and gas is moving us away from fossil fuels, Green councillor says
A Greenwich Green councillor has defended his career in the oil and gas industry — insisting his work over the past decade has been focused on the transition to renewable energy. Lakshan Saldin joined the Green Party in January after resigning from the Labour Party last September, and is standing for his new party in […]
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We want half of the cash from London’s tourist levy, boroughs tell the mayor
London’s boroughs must keep half of all revenue raised from the incoming overnight tourist levy raised in their area, the mayor has been told. Claire Holland, the chair of London Councils, which represents the 32 boroughs, said that the local authorities who bear the costs of tourism must also reap the benefits. Rachel Reeves, the […]
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