The immersive theatre company Punchdrunk’s latest production will come to Woolwich next month – turning audience members into players in a video game. Lander 23 will feature “ true video game mechanics” and bring immersive theatre into “unchartered territory”, the company says, meaning that tickets for the first two weeks of the show have been […]
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‘Get on with it’: Support builds for London-wide tourism tax
Support for a London-wide tourist tax appears to be growing after the Liberal Democrats and Green Party on the London Assembly backed calls for the mayor to be given powers to implement one. Sir Sadiq Khan continues to support a “modest overnight accommodation levy” for any visitors to the capital, the Labour mayor’s office said […]
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Thamesmead DLR extension should run to Belvedere, Bexley Council says
Bexley Council has reiterated its call for the Docklands Light Railway to be extended to Belvedere, and not just Thamesmead, and asked its residents to tell Transport for London in the latest consultation. The demand from Bexley’s leader, Baroness O’Neill, has come in the same week as her counterpart in Greenwich, Anthony Okereke, signed off […]
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Greenwich Peninsula’s Now Gallery to close after 11 years
The Now Gallery on Greenwich Peninsula will close at the end of this month, 11 years after it first opened. The gallery occupies part of a marketing pavilion run by the peninsula’s developer, Knight Dragon, on Peninsula Square, behind North Greenwich station. The building was originally intended to be temporary and was given planning permission […]
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No plans to sell allotments in Greenwich with hundreds waiting to dig
Greenwich Council has reassured residents that it has no plans to sell or build on any of its allotments after a political row broke out at Westminster over the issue. Neighbouring Lewisham and Bexley also say they have no plans to do away with allotments, with hundreds of residents on waiting lists across the three […]
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Plumstead police station’s counter to close under Met cutbacks
Plumstead police station will lose its front counter under Scotland Yard cutbacks – meaning residents in Greenwich borough will need to go to Lewisham, Bexleyheath or Bromley if they want to report a crime in person. Just 20 police counters will be left across London to save £7 million from a Metropolitan Police funding gap […]
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Last orders for never-opened Woolwich pub as plan for shops submitted
Hopes that Woolwich town centre would get a new pub look set to be dead without a pint being served after plans to turn the site into two shop units were submitted. The pub group Antic had long planned to open The Volunteer at the west end of Powis Street, next to the former Co-op […]
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Woolwich’s Poundstretcher store could be replaced by 160 co-living homes
Woolwich’s Poundstretcher store and a neighbouring shop could be pulled down and replaced with 160 co-living homes. The developers behind the scheme, Buccleuch Property and Packaged Living, announced that they had bought the site on Beresford Square earlier this year and held a brief consultation in May. Now plans to tear down the old supermarket […]
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