(8 September 2013: The route has since changed – for up-to-date details, click here.) Here we go again… In case you haven’t seen it already, here’s (most of) the planned route for 2013’s Run to the Beat race, planned for 8 September, as revealed by The Charlton Champion on Thursday. Despite a large number of […]
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Will the Greenwich line get a rail users group? Find out
Apologies for the short notice, but if you use Westcombe Park, Maze Hill, Greenwich or Deptford stations you should know about this – there’s a meeting on Tuesday at Davy’s Wine Bar, Greenwich High Road (7pm) about the possibility of setting up a rail users’ group for the Greenwich line, following the success of the […]
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Greenwich & Woolwich MP Nick Raynsford to stand down
Breaking news: Greenwich & Woolwich MP Nick Raynsford is to stand down at the next general election, he told Labour Party members at a meeting in Charlton tonight. Raynsford, who will be 70 at the time of May 2015’s election, has represented the local area since 1992, when he was elected MP for the old […]
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Bully for you – quitting councillor rocks Greenwich Labour
It was meant to be a great week for Greenwich Council. Leader Chris Roberts had donned a penguin suit to collect the “council of the year” prize from the Local Government Chronicle, the trade paper for councils. “The event at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel followed a day of live judging for the top two categories […]
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Greenwich Council snubs TfL’s ‘cycling revolution’
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJSvdpoVHBk?rel=0&w=640&h=360%5D You’ve probably heard about last week’s launch of Transport for London’s plans to boost cycling in the capital. There’s lots to like there, with eye-catching schemes like creating cycle lanes on the Victoria Embankment and the Westway. Whether they’ll actually happen will be another matter, though, as much of this will depend on […]
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Greenwich Council: ‘We’ll build our own river crossing’
Greenwich Council is demanding the power to build a new road bridge at Thamesmead, according to its response to Transport for London’s consultation into river crossings. As expected, the council is “strongly supporting” the controversial Silvertown Tunnel, which would branch off the A102 just south of the Blackwall Tunnel, as favoured by mayor Boris Johnson […]
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Lewisham Hospital: How you can help the legal challenge
Lewisham Council decided last night to apply for a judicial review into the Government’s decision to downgrade the accident and emergency unit at Lewisham Hospital. You can listen to councillors debate and approve the decision at Clare’s blog – which, I think, is incidentally the first time a blog’s covered goings-on at Lewisham Town Hall. […]
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See plans for new Greenwich Peninsula towers
It’s funny what you find in the pub, isn’t it? A single sheet left in The Pilot yesterday evening, revealing plans to build to the west of the Dome, on land west of Millennium Way (the road that leads up to the Dome) and across Tunnel Avenue. Street signs already bear a “Peninsula Quays” legend, […]
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