Greenwich Council is hoping that London’s mayor will help with long-delayed plans to knock down shops and businesses around Woolwich Public Market for a major new housing and retail development. Traders have been left in limbo since plans for hundreds of homes, shops, restaurants and a new cinema in the old covered market were first announced […]
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Greenwich Council’s chief executive Debbie Warren to retire
Greenwich Council’s chief executive Debbie Warren is to retire this year after nine years in the top job. Warren began working for the council’s finance department in 1980 and became its director of finance in 2009. She became acting chief executive in 2017, and was confirmed in the role the following year. While the council […]
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Reform UK candidate criticised for already being a councillor in Kent
A Reform UK candidate in next week’s Greenwich Council elections has been criticised for standing in Woolwich when he is already a councillor in Kent. Alan Cecil, who is chair of Reform’s Greenwich branch, was elected to represent Wilmington, south of Dartford, on Kent County Council last year. He is now also on the ballot […]
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Greenwich Labour councillors sit up late to restrict public scrutiny
Greenwich’s Labour councillors burned the midnight oil on Wednesday to pass new rules restricting public questions at council meetings, just 50 days before the next election. Lengthy tributes to and from departing councillors and attempts to talk out the controversial measures by opposition councillors meant that the meeting lasted more than five and half hours, […]
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Anthony Okereke tightens grip on Greenwich Council after reshuffle
Greenwich Council leader Anthony Okereke has tightened his grip on the town hall in a cabinet reshuffle less than five months before the next election. As well as being leader, Okereke will now also be cabinet member for planning and regeneration, The Greenwich Wire can reveal. The deputy leader, Averil Lekau, has been effectively demoted […]
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Clean up your language, council leader told after swearing in fly-tipping ad
Greenwich Council’s leader has been told to mind his language after releasing a sweary video to promote an anti-flytipping initiative. Anthony Okereke said that fly-tipping was “lazy and criminal, and we’re not putting up with this shit any more” in a press release and social media videos issued on Monday, with the offending word either […]
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Greenwich Council spends £5m on fly-tipping in pre-election splurge
Greenwich Council is promising to spend £5 million on a fly-tipping crackdown as the ruling Labour group gets ready for its most difficult election in decades. The cash, to be spent over the next four and a half years, is part of a package of spending promises being announced by the council, with just six […]
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Promoted councillor to oversee ‘sustainable streets’ CPZ scheme
A backbench Labour councillor has been given a temporary promotion to Greenwich Council’s cabinet and will be taking charge of the controversial “sustainable streets” scheme to extend controlled parking zones in the north of the borough. Calum O’Byrne Mulligan, who represents Creekside, will step up to be cabinet member for climate action, sustainability and transport […]
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