Greenwich councillors united last night to condemn an outbreak of racist and antisemitic graffti targeting businesses in Blackheath and Charlton last weekend. Attackers scrawled fascist insignia and antisemitic messages on the Barclays Bank branch at the Royal Standard in Blackheath, while graffti was also daubed on a takeaway in nearby Bramshot Avenue, Charlton. Trees in […]
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News about Blackheath, London SE3 – including Westcombe Park – from The Greenwich Wire.
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Blackheath Society would support rebuilding tea hut destroyed in crash
853 exclusive: The Blackheath Society has said it would support the reinstatement of the heath’s famous tea hut, which was destroyed last week in a car crash. Two people were taken to hospital after a driver ploughed into the hut, which has been a local fixture for decades, serving drivers, bikers and passers-by around the […]
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Blackheath Tea Hut: Replacement café would need council permission
A replacement for the Blackheath Tea Hut, which was destroyed in a traffic collision on Tuesday night, would need planning permission before it could be built, Lewisham Council has said. Two people were taken to hospital after the driver of a Mercedes ploughed into the hut, which has served locals, drivers and bikers around the […]
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Free school refused permission to build on sports ground to close
A controversial free school which was refused permission to build on a sports ground in Lee is to be closed down by the government. The International Academy of Greenwich, which had hoped to build a school for 765 pupils on the Bowring Sports Ground, off Eltham Road, will begin winding down in summer 2020 after […]
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Passengers asked for ideas for reopened £220,000 Thameslink fund
Rail passengers are being asked for ideas for what can be done to improve their journeys from six Greenwich and Woolwich line stations after local MP Matt Pennycook successfully fought to have a little-publicised scheme reopened for suggestions. As part of its apology for the botched introduction of May 2018’s timetable – which saw a […]
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You don’t represent us, John Roan parents tell anti-academy campaigners
Concerned parents have called for stability at a 340-year-old school at the centre of an ongoing row over becoming an academy. John Roan School in Blackheath was hit with an academisation order after a damning Ofsted report found it to be inadequate last year. The government has said that United Learning will take the school […]
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Brooklands Primary parents told their campaigning is ‘harassment’
A parents’ group protesting at cuts at a primary school in Blackheath has been banned from contacting the academy trust which runs the school except under the terms of a policy designed to deal with harassment, 853 has discovered. Parents began a campaign after two office staff at Brooklands Primary School were threatened with redundancy […]
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Activists disrupt meeting as Greenwich Council nods through John Roan academy order
Greenwich Council has rubber-stamped the takeover of John Roan School by the United Learning academies trust amid angry scenes at Woolwich Town Hall, effectively ending a bitter struggle over the future of the historic Blackheath school. Last night’s meeting was suspended after disruption by activists from the John Roan Resists campaign, which has opposed the […]
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