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 […]
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Mayor-making: Greenwich councillor calls criticism ‘boring’
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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Counting the cost: On Blackheath festival off for 2011
From Michele O’Brien at the Blackheath Bugle, and as mentioned here a couple of weeks back, news that the planned On Blackheath festival is set to be abandoned for this year as a consequence of the lengthy court battle over Lewisham granting it a licence. However, the organisers have said they’ll reapply for a new […]
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Demonstrators target Greenwich Council mayor’s party
Council staff and anti-cuts campaigners are planning to picket Greenwich’s controversial mayor-making ceremony at the Old Royal Naval College next week. The Greenwich Save Our Services group says it will demonstrate outside the event on 25 May, which the council is going ahead with despite cutting £48m from this year’s budget, including cuts to funding […]
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Greenwich Park Olympics: Now the work begins
It’s finally about to happen – the heavy work will start on Monday preparing Greenwich Park for this summer’s test events in advance of next year’s Olympics. A chunk of the park in front of the National Maritime Museum (marked in red on the map above) will be closed from 16 May to 10 August […]
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Greenwich Council plans lavish mayor’s party – despite £48m cuts
853 exclusive: Greenwich Council is going ahead with plans to hold a “mayor-making” ceremony at the Old Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall against the wishes of its incoming mayor, and despite cutting £48m from its budget for this year. Last year’s event at the prestigious Greenwich venue cost £30,000 to stage, angering residents protesting against […]
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Delayed Cutty Sark stretching councillors’ patience
Greenwich Council might have approved the Olympic test events in Greenwich Park last week – the News Shopper’s Mark Chandler has done a great job in summing a fiddly issue up – but another decision taken at Thursday’s planning meeting shows how perilous planning around London 2012 can be. Also on the agenda was a […]
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The Wellington Street tapes: Listen to Greenwich Council meet
I thought I’d test out the new guidelines from the government last night and record some extracts from a Greenwich Council meeting. Well, it’s something to do on a Wednesday night. The result is what I believe is the first news story about the council’s affairs to feature audio from a council meeting – confirmation […]
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