Concerned parents have called for stability at a 340-year-old school at the centre of an ongoing row over becoming an academy. John Roan School in Blackheath was hit with an academisation order after a damning Ofsted report found it to be inadequate last year. The government has said that United Learning will take the school […]
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Schoolchildren plead with Sadiq Khan to scrap Silvertown Tunnel
Schoolchildren from Kidbrooke have pleaded for the Silvertown Tunnel to be scrapped, as protesters hit City Hall for a second time this morning. Pupils and teachers from the Thomas Tallis school joined environmental campaigners from Extinction Rebellion and the Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition to pressure London mayor Sadiq Khan to backtrack on the controversial […]
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Silvertown Tunnel: Greenwich Council’s leader shrugs off calls to oppose new road
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has played down growing pressure for the council to condemn London mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial Silvertown Tunnel. The council has consistently supported the new road between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, which is due to open in 2025, despite neighbouring Newham, Lewisham and Southwark opposing the crossing. Last week, […]
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‘World class’ Cycle Superhighway 4 gets Lewisham Council’s approval
Transport for London’s plans to build Cycle Superhighway 4 through Deptford have been given the green light by Lewisham’s elected mayor and cabinet. The segregated, two-way cycle route will run from Tooley Street down to Jamaica Road and onto Evelyn Street before ending at Deptford Creek Bridge, connecting Bermondsey, Rotherhithe, Deptford and west Greenwich. Work […]
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Revealed: (Some of) the words you can’t say to Greenwich councillors by email
Hundreds of words are banned from being sent to Greenwich councillors and officers to avoid abuse and harassment, it can be revealed. The authority has become the latest to release its list of barred words and phrases, following investigations by the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Birmingham City Council was the first to reveal its list […]
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Mayor Sadiq Khan objects to ‘polluting’ Belvedere incinerator scheme
Sadiq Khan has thrown his weight behind a campaign to stop a controversial incinerator being built next to a nature reserve in Belvedere. The Mayor of London has urged the government to pull the plug on Cory Riverside Energy’s proposed waste incinerator at their site near to Crossness Nature Reserve. Bexley councillors and wildlife enthusiasts […]
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Greenwich Council is listening more after my first year in charge, Danny Thorpe says
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe says the council has begun to listen more since he took charge of the town hall a year ago. Reflecting on his first year in charge of the Labour administration in the borough, Thorpe said when he took office that he wanted to change the way the council interacted and […]
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Abbey Wood businesses being ‘crucified’ by Crossrail delays
Struggling Abbey Wood businesses say they are being “crucified” by the ongoing delays to the opening of Crossrail. The major transport link was supposed to be up and running from December last year, but a series of controversial pushbacks have seen it delayed until spring 2020 at the earliest – and maybe as late as […]
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