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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Government fund to remove cladding ‘will lead to lottery’, campaigners warn
Vital funding announced by the Government today to replace flammable lining wrapped around more then 170 buildings will lead to a “cladding lottery”, an action group has warned. Nearly two years after 72 people died in a fire at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, 28 buildings in Greenwich borough still have combustible cladding. New Capital […]
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‘Poor door’ Greenwich Peninsula residents fear L&Q service charge hikes
Residents living in shared ownership flats on Greenwich Peninsula claim they will be priced out if service charges continue to be hiked. Neighbours in the Waterman Building and Bessemer Place claim their service charges have shot up 30 per cent over the last two years with little explanation from housing association L&Q. They say the increases […]
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‘Flooded gardens and broken promises’: Abbey Wood MP’s anger as Crossrail delayed again
Businesses in Abbey Wood have faced years of “broken promises” from Crossrail, its local MP has said, as the Elizabeth Line’s opening date has been put back still further. The line was due to launch in December but has been delayed after a series of problems. Yesterday it was announced the line from Abbey Wood, […]
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