Councillors on one of Greenwich Council’s planning committees have backed plans to create a conservation area in Woolwich – and suggested it be extended to cover the site of a planned tower block in front of the Tesco store. Last year, plans for a 27-storey block from developer Meyer Homes were thrown out by the […]
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Greenwich Ikea opening: Preview days announced as traffic anxiety grows
Customers will get their first look inside east Greenwich’s controversial Ikea store on Friday when two preview days are held for shoppers who are part of the retailer’s loyalty scheme. The store will be open on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd February for people who have signed up to the Ikea Family programme. Customers are […]
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Greenwich councillors sign off on £1.3m of cuts to voluntary groups
Greenwich councillors have signed off on £1.3m of cuts in funding to voluntary groups in the borough. Decision-makers were tasked with making the chop following a government axe to the public health funding pot. Grants worth £2.9m will be awarded following the cuts, but 99 applications were made by 63 groups asking for a combined […]
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Greenwich Labour accused of breaking promise on council tax support
Greenwich Conservative leader Matt Hartley has accused the Labour council of backtracking on a promise to exempt 15,000 low-income residents from council tax – but council leader Danny Thorpe has called on his opposite number to fight for more cash for councils from central government. Thorpe’s predecessor, Denise Hyland, told a council meeting in February […]
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What’s your neighbourhood called? Parliament’s researchers need your help
Researchers in the House of Commons are asking the public for help in naming areas on maps used by statisticians. As well as boroughs and wards, statisticians who work on census data also work on smaller areas – the smallest being output areas, which are generally based around individual postcodes. This enables them to compare […]
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Army will work to improve neglected Woolwich Common, minister insists
A defence minister has told local MP Matt Pennycook that the Army will work to improve Woolwich Common, after locals raised concerns about the way the green space is looked after. Tobias Ellwood told Pennycook, the MP for Greenwich & Woolwich, that he appreciated the “strength of feeling” on the issue, which has prompted neighbours […]
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Greenwich Council set to back down on two Pocket Living sales after resident opposition
Greenwich Council is poised to drop a controversial scheme to sell land on two housing estates in Lewisham and Kidbrooke to “compact home” developer Pocket Living after residents objected to the plans. It had wanted to sell garages at Quince Road, off Lewisham Road – on the borough border – and two car park plots […]
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£11k needed for hearing into South Circular air pollution death after legal aid refusal
Hither Green mother and clean air campaigner Rosamund Kissi-Debrah is one step closer to a new inquest into her daughter’s death – but needs to raise £11,000 in four weeks to apply to the High Court. Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 from acute respiratory failure after years of coughing fits and seizures, and 27 […]
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