Greenwich Council is considering setting up its own cycle hire schemes, after once again ruling out paying for TfL’s Santander Cycles to reach the borough. The council has rejected a new call to work on an expansion of the London Cycle Hire network, following a petition handed to the council last month by Conservative councillor […]
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Greenwich borough set for new weekly paper after council strikes ad deal
Greenwich borough is all set to get a new weekly newspaper after Greenwich Council agreed to sign an advertising deal with the publisher of the weekly Southwark News. Councils must, by law, publish certain public notices – such as for planning and highways matters – in at least one local newspaper. Until 2016, Greenwich had […]
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Sadiq Khan waters down Silvertown Tunnel tolls – putting air quality at risk
London mayor Sadiq Khan has watered down plans to toll his proposed Silvertown Tunnel by offering residents on low incomes discounts on using the new road – putting at risk the traffic modelling the scheme depends on to work. Transport for London plans to toll both the existing Blackwall Tunnel and the planned Silvertown Tunnel, […]
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Former Greenwich Conservative councillor Dermot Poston dies
Former Eltham North councillor Dermot Poston, who was first elected to Woolwich Town Hall in 1968, has died, his colleague Spencer Drury announced on Friday. Terribly sad news that my friend ex-#Eltham Councillor Dermot Poston has passed away. My thoughts are with his family at this dreadful time. pic.twitter.com/jAI7dN0FrA — Spencer Drury (@Spencer_Drury) March 10, […]
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TfL bus cuts threaten route 180 through Lewisham, Greenwich and Charlton
9 July update: Here is the latest on this story. Transport for London could axe bus route 180 between Lewisham and Charlton, according to a document released by Greenwich Council earlier this month. The service – which currently runs between Lewisham and Belvedere via Greenwich, Charlton, Woolwich, Plumstead and Abbey Wood, could be diverted to […]
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Should North Greenwich bus station be listed? These people say it should be
You probably read a couple of weeks ago about the new development planned for North Greenwich station – 30-storey glass towers, a “winter garden”, 800 flats and a world-famous architect in Santiago Calatrava. It’ll certainly be an impressive sight and will probably replace the Dome as the peninsula’s signature building – in fact, if you […]
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Dirty borough: Greenwich’s street sweeping boss leaves council after complaints
The man in charge of Greenwich Council’s street sweeping has parted company with the authority after streets in some parts of the borough were left unswept for weeks. Matthew Norwell, Greenwich’s director of community services, left before Christmas “by mutual agreement”, the council has confirmed. Councillors were frustrated at the failure of his department to […]
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Sadiq Khan backed Silvertown Tunnel five weeks after election – despite promising ‘joined-up review’
London mayor Sadiq Khan agreed to continue with Boris Johnson’s plans to build the controversial Silvertown Tunnel within weeks of taking office, despite promising a “proper joined-up review” into the project while standing for election. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that Khan backed the tunnel after receiving a briefing from Transport […]
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