Greenwich Council says London mayor Sadiq Khan needs to listen to local residents after he blocked its decision to refuse permission for two major housing developments in Charlton and Abbey Wood. Khan has called in decisions about the 771-home Rockwell Charlton Riverside scheme at Anchor & Hope Lane along with a 272-home proposal at Eynsham […]
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TfL plans permanent cutbacks for routes 53, 171 and 172 in huge bus axe scheme
853 exclusive: Transport for London is planning to make a huge swathe of cuts to bus routes in the centre of the capital – including stopping three of south-east London’s most important bus routes short of their current terminals. Route 53, which runs from Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton and Blackheath through Deptford, the Old Kent Road […]
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Pay more, skip the 108: Ford wants its Shooters Hill Shot buses to stop on Westcombe Hill
UPDATE: The Chariot application to run down Westcombe Hill was refused in October. Commuters in Blackheath and Charlton who are tired of crowded and unreliable buses to North Greenwich could be able to get a new service to the Jubilee Line hub – if they pay a little more. Car giant Ford, which launched its […]
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Greenwich Council cabinet told to reconsider Pocket Living land sales
Greenwich Council’s cabinet will have to look again at its plan to sell land on council estates to a private developer after residents and councillors lined up to criticise the scheme. But the cabinet member in charge of the proposal said that the proposals would help residents and fund new council housing in the borough. […]
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Greenwich Heritage Centre: Users’ group set up to lobby for reopened archives
A users’ group has been set up to lobby for the reopening of Greenwich borough’s local history archive, which closed suddenly last month. The doors were locked at the Greenwich Heritage Centre on 21 July, with a number of staff redundancies, after the building – a former ammunition factory in the Royal Arsenal complex – […]
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Tonia Ashikodi: Greenwich councillor’s fraud hearing is adjourned
The court hearing for a Greenwich councillor accused of fraud and perverting the course of justice has been adjourned until Monday 20 August, magistrates in Bexleyheath heard this morning. Ashikodi, 29, was due to appear alongside her 49-year-old father, Tony Ashikodi. But Bexley magistrates were told that Greenwich Council, which is bringing the case against […]
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Plans to straighten out bus access to North Greenwich station dropped
Plans to make it easier for buses to enter and leave North Greenwich bus station look like they have been dropped after Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe unveiled a legal agreement to replace the peninsula’s busway with a dual carriageway. The 17-year-old busway, a legacy of failed plans for a guided bus service to the […]
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Cheap start-up rent for operator of £600,000 Plumstead Slade toilet cafe
The operator of a new cafe in Plumstead which Greenwich Council is spending over £600,000 converting from a public toilet will get a discounted rent for the first five years, papers released on Friday evening reveal. Plans to convert the closed convieniences at The Slade, near Plumstead Common, caused uproar among backbench Labour councillors last […]
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