Mayor Boris Johnson’s deputy has backed Greenwich Council’s decision to allow a cruise liner terminal to be built at Enderby Wharf, east Greenwich, despite residents’ fears that it will increase air pollution in the area. The Conservative administration at City Hall sided with the Labour council on last month’s go-ahead for the scheme, even though […]
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Stand down Denise: Residents call on Greenwich Council leader to quit her planning role
Local residents in east Greenwich are demanding council leader Denise Hyland stands down from the borough’s main planning committee after it was revealed she is the only council leader in London who is regularly directly involved in taking decisions about major new developments. The East Greenwich Residents Association has made the call following Hyland’s role […]
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Blackwall Lane pocket park: Greenwich Council ignores objections and sells to developer
Greenwich Council’s cabinet agreed to sell a “pocket park” off Blackwall Lane to a developer on Wednesday night, despite 54 complaints about the plan. Councillors agreed the plan to dispose of the open space to the company building flats on an adjacent plot of land that had formerly been used as a car wash. The […]
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Greenwich cruise liner terminal: The night Greenwich councillors ignored air pollution – again
Hugely controversial plans for a cruise liner terminal at Enderby Wharf, east Greenwich, were approved on Tuesday night after a marathon four-hour session of Greenwich Council’s planning board – with councillors dismissing fears of air pollution from the ships. I couldn’t be at Woolwich Town Hall, so have to leave you in the hands of […]
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Greenwich cruise liner terminal: Planners shrug off pollution fears
10.40pm update: The cruise liner terminal was passed by six votes to three, with one abstention. Read on for the story from before the meeting. Greenwich Council planners have dismissed fears of air pollution from the new cruise liner terminal at Enderby Wharf, recommending councillors pass the scheme at a meeting on Tuesday evening. Groups […]
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Blackwall Lane pocket park: Greenwich Council plans quick sale to developer
Last summer, this website revealed Greenwich Council was planning to sell a small piece of green space on Blackwall Lane in east Greenwich. In other areas, it’d be called a “pocket park” and cherished – it soaks up some of the terrible pollution in this area of SE10 and provides a valuable bit of green […]
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Battle for Greenwich Time set to cost £120,000, council admits
Greenwich Council leader Denise Hyland has admitted its legal fight to save its weekly newspaper Greenwich Time is set to cost £120,000. Hyland accused the government of wanting to “censor democracy” by trying to force the closure of GT, one of only two weekly council papers in the country. The admission came during Wednesday’s council […]
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Goodbye to Greenwich’s ‘eco’-Sainsbury’s: 1999 – 2015
On a September morning nearly 16 years ago, I watched Jamie Oliver fire a little white cannon to open the “eco” Sainsbury’s in east Greenwich. Last night, on a warm June evening, I watched it close for the last time. At 5.58pm, people were still wandering into the store. If it wasn’t for people leaving […]
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