Councillors have been asked to approve a plan to demolish the former Greenwich Police Station and replace it with a development of 59 flats. The six-storey development on the corner of Burney Street and Royal Hill would represent “less than substantial harm” to the Greenwich World Heritage Site and local conservation area, but this would […]
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Greenwich Council concerned over City Airport’s plan for more weekend flights
Greenwich Council has expressed its concern over London City Airport’s plans to scrap curbs on weekend flights. The Royal Docks airport wants to be allowed to handle an extra 40,000 flights per year on top of its current limit of 111,000, a figure it says it will reach in 2022. At present, no flights are […]
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Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook demands cruise ship pollution crackdown
Greenwich and Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook has called for a single regulator to govern shipping on the Thames so it can crack down on polluting cruise liners docking at Greenwich. Earlier this year, the new owner of Enderby Wharf in east Greenwich formally scrapped plans to build a cruise liner terminal which had been approved […]
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Social care staff plan strike over Greenwich Council Telecare cuts
Greenwich Council staff are threatening to strike from 13 September over cuts to its Telecare service, which is used by 2,000 vulnerable people in the borough. The Unite union says that people who call for help will be visited by one person instead of two from Monday, while charges of £6 per week will be […]
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Brexit crisis: Leader plans special no-deal Greenwich Council meeting
The leader of Greenwich Council has asked for a special council meeting to be held to discuss the likelihood of Britain crashing out of the European Union in nine weeks without a deal. On Tuesday, 853 revealed that council staff could have to take charge of petrol rationing arrangements if freight queues on Kent’s motorway […]
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Work on Deptford’s cycle superhighway is brought forward
Work on Deptford’s new segregated cycle route has been brought forward to later this year, meaning riders will be able to cycle along Creek Road several months earlier than planned, Transport for London has said. Construction of Cycleway 4 – the new name for what had been called Cycle Superhighway 4 – from Tower Bridge […]
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No-deal Brexit could see Greenwich Council staff at petrol stations
853 exclusive: Greenwich Council staff face being sent to petrol stations to take charge of rationing if a no-deal Brexit disrupts fuel supplies, 853 has learnt. Local authorities across the country will bear much of the responsibility for dealing the consequences of Britain crashing out of the European Union, if a deal is not struck […]
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Greenwich Council backs five hours’ free parking at ‘sustainable’ Ikea
Plans for up to five hours’ free car parking at east Greenwich’s “sustainable” Ikea store have been approved by Greenwich Council – despite initial objections from the council’s own officers. Shoppers using the Millennium Retail Park had been able to park for up to four hours, although this limit had not been enforced since the […]
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