Weeks after blowing £500,000 on a tall ships festival, it’s emerged Greenwich Council has declined to pay its way for this year’s Blackheath fireworks for a fifth year running – leaving Lewisham Council to fundraise for the event again. Greenwich withdrew its £37,000 share of funding from the event in 2010 with then-deputy leader Peter […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Square wakes up as golf balls set to fly
It’s been a long-running moan on this site – the sad waste of space between North Greenwich station and the Dome. Well, it’s being wasted no more. Joining Meantime Brewing’s temporary Beer Box (due for a three-year stay) is a full-time bar/restaurant, Greenwich Kitchen, that’s billing itself as a “New York-style coffee shop”. It’s even […]
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Woolwich Tesco wins ugly architecture’s Carbuncle Cup
The judges called it “inept, arrogant and oppressive,” the Guardian reports. A familiar-sounding description – wonder if this story will feature in next week’s Greenwich Time? Somehow the council never made space for its nomination in its weekly newspaper. A Greenwich Council spokesperson said: “Look! Tall ships!”
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Tall Ships sponsor Barratt Homes hides decaying Enderby House
A development by the east Greenwich riverfront at Enderby House, the Grade II-listed building that housed the firm behind the world’s first transatlantic cables, which were made at Enderby Wharf. The house, now on the site of the long-delayed cruise liner terminal, has been decaying for years. Now developer Barratt Homes has taken action. It’s […]
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Greenwich Ikea campaigners look to the courts: Can you help?
Campaigners against Ikea’s proposed store in east Greenwich have launched an appeal for funds as they look to begin a judicial review into the Government’s decision not to overturn planning permission for the scheme. Greenwich Council gave outline permission for the store, on the site of the “eco-friendly” Sainsbury’s store in Peartree Way, in March. Planning officers ignored […]
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Revealed: Mercury owner’s bid to take over Greenwich Time
Greenwich Council refused an approach from the owner of the Mercury and South London Press newspapers to take over its controversial weekly freesheet Greenwich Time, it’s emerged – and is being accused of misleading its own councillors about the offer. The offer, made three years ago, is at the centre of a row between the […]
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Blur’s Parklife on the Greenwich Peninsula: 20 years on
It’s 20 years ago today that Blur’s video for Parklife was shot outside the Pilot pub on the Greenwich Peninsula. Directed by Pedro Romhanyi – who’d later shoot the promo for Pulp’s Common People – it remains one of the most fondly-remembered of all British music videos. I remember it well – the filming took […]
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Beer Box: Greenwich’s Peninsula Square finally springs into life
Seven years after the O2 opened, finally, finally, the miserable open space outside, Peninsula Square, has started to look like the “new leisure destination for Londoners and tourists alike” promised back then. New York band We Are Scientists opened up Meantime Brewery’s Beer Box with a blistering free live show last night. It looks like […]
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