Saturday’s Guardian contained this interesting tale… Tesco has become “an almighty conglomerate” abusing its unfettered market power to dominate towns at the expense of small retailers, Labour claimed as it called on the government to confront the chain. The shadow local government minister, Jack Dromey, said: “Tesco want to rule retail, in particular the southern […]
Plans for a two-day music festival on Blackheath have been upheld by magistrates, who threw out an appeal against it being granted a licence. Bromley magistrates dismissed the appeal brought by the Blackheath Society against Lewisham Council, which granted a 10-year licence to Nimby Events Ltd last year. The society now faces an £80,000 legal […]
Remember last year, when Greenwich Council was too poor to fund its share of the Blackheath fireworks, but was happy to dole out cash to a select group of large festivals it could tie in with the Olympics? Well, it’s happened again, with Greenwich & Docklands International Festival turning up at the town hall with […]
Over on The Scoop right now, you can read probably the strangest Greenwich Council story I’ve ever come across – the mystery of who offered to pay Bryan Ferry £60,000 to perform at the Dome. One of Boris Johnson’s aides, marketing director Dan Ritterband, made the claim at a London Assembly scrutiny meeting last week. […]
Greenwich Council suggested cutting the frequency of one of the borough’s few north-south bus links to help pay for its plans to pedestrianise Greenwich town centre, according to documents released by Transport for London. The scheme was shelved after objections from Transport for London, and the documents outline TfL’s worries – including its estimate that […]
Frank Dekker walks along the riverside path, and gestures towards Canary Wharf. He’s sketching out a scheme for his planned beach on the Greenwich Peninsula. Why not get a sponsor to fund a water flume on the beach? “It’s limited only by our imaginations and what we can make happen commercially. The cost of a […]
I spent last night in Walthamstow, as local campaigners won an important victory in their battle to stop the disused EMD cinema from being turned into a church. Sat outside a Hoe Street pub, I watched as E17 residents, from lifelong locals to recent arrivals, celebrated, still not quite believing what they had achieved. New […]
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