Heavy goods vehicles could be banned from part of Blackheath Village after years of requests from local residents. Lewisham Council is consulting on barring vehicles over 7.5 tonnes from using the southern part of Tranquil Vale, Blackheath Village and the northern part of Lee Road as a through route. Deliveries would still be allowed and […]
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News about Blackheath Village in London SE3 from The Greenwich Wire.
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Plans for Blackheath Farmers’ Market are ‘a fiction’, local society says
Blackheath Farmers’ Market is threatened by proposals to build 45 homes on the station car park, a local amenity society has claimed, branding plans for the market’s future “a fiction”. Acorn Property Group, a north London-based developer, wants to build 20 houses and 25 flats in the car park, and insists that it wants to […]
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Asda set to open Blackheath Village Express store after winning licence
Blackheath Village is set to get an Asda Express convenience store after Greenwich councillors agreed to give it an alcohol licence. The store had been hotly opposed by neighbours, with 72 individual objections received as well as one from the Blackheath Society, the local amenity group. But a panel of three councillors approved the licence, […]
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Locals object to Asda Express plan to sell booze in Blackheath Village
Asda is facing opposition to plans for a mini-supermarket in Blackheath Village – with 72 residents and the local amenity society lodging objections to an alcohol licence. The retail giant has applied for a premises licence for the old Lloyds Bank on the corner of Bennett Park. It hopes to sell alcohol from 7am to […]
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Part of Blackheath Village could be pedestrianised by Lewisham Council
A small part of Blackheath Village could be pedestrianised under plans being drawn up by Lewisham Council. Montpelier Vale, which faces the heath, could be closed to traffic as part of a wider package of proposals to improve walking and cycling in the borough. The proposals are mentioned in an agenda document for councillors to […]
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What’s in the box? How Covid-19 has transformed Blackheath’s Age Exchange
A vital charity in Blackheath reinvented itself in a matter of days as it fought to keep up with the strange new world that Covid-19 plunged it into. Age Exchange was due to celebrate its 35th year supporting the community before the country locked-down. The Blackheath charity is a national body that supports dementia sufferers […]
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Lewisham Council asks which streets it should open up to walkers and cyclists
Lewisham Council has revealed where it is considering making changes to the road network to make it easier to walk and cycle safely during the pandemic – and is asking the public for suggestions for other locations. 853 revealed at the weekend that both Lewisham and Greenwich councils were planning changes to help residents keep […]
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Lewisham East by-election: The stats behind the political story
The Westminster circus is parking its caravans in south-east London ahead of the Lewisham East by-election on 14 June, caused by the departure of Labour MP Heidi Alexander. Yet many of the statistics about the area spouted in the early stages of the poll have been misleading or just plain wrong. 853‘s resident stats geek […]
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