Greenwich Council is set to sell seven public toilets across the borough to raise money to fund local services, according to documents to be placed before a council meeting next week. The seven conveniences include the long-closed block on Blackheath next to the Long Pond, on Shooters Hill Road, which the council plans to sell […]
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News about Blackheath, London SE3 – including Westcombe Park – from The Greenwich Wire.
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What’s your neighbourhood called? Parliament’s researchers need your help
Researchers in the House of Commons are asking the public for help in naming areas on maps used by statisticians. As well as boroughs and wards, statisticians who work on census data also work on smaller areas – the smallest being output areas, which are generally based around individual postcodes. This enables them to compare […]
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Former Charlton Triangle Homes chair Mark Adams jailed for rape
Former Charlton Triangle Homes chair Mark Adams has been jailed for seven years after raping a woman at his house in Blackheath. The 56-year-old was found guilty after a trial at Woolwich Crown Court. The BBC reports that his victim, in her 20s, woke up on his sofa, found her trousers pulled down and Adams […]
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University Schools Trust pulls out of John Roan academy plan
The controversial trust behind plans to concert John Roan School into an academy has pulled out of the scheme, saying it does not have the resources to turn the troubled school around. University Schools Trust (UST), which already runs the Greenwich Trust School in Charlton, was called into the school by Greenwich Council to provide […]
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New TfL bus cut to hit Greenwich and Eltham route 286
853 exclusive: Transport for London is planning to cut evening and weekend services on one of Greenwich borough’s few north-south bus routes – making it harder to reach some of its most popular tourist and nightlife attractions. Route 286, which runs from Sidcup to Greenwich via Eltham, Kidbrooke and Blackheath, currently runs every 15 minutes […]
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John Roan School academy approval deferred by Greenwich Council
The rubber-stamping of a controversial academy order for John Roan School in Blackheath has been deferred by the council. The decision to sign the school over to University Schools Trust (UST), the body that was nominated to take it over, has been pushed back for “further due diligence”. The school was given an academy order […]
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John Roan School: Greenwich Council cabinet poised to approve academy plan
Greenwich Council’s cabinet is poised to rubber-stamp plans to turn John Roan School into an academy at its meeting next week. The council is compelled to assist the process by law, and next Wednesday’s decision will allow officers to make arrangements for the switch to happen on 1 February. The school, in Blackheath, is due […]
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International Academy of Greenwich: Neighbours unhappy over free school’s plan to move to playing field
Furious neighbours are fighting back against plans to relocate a free school to the bottom of their gardens in a quiet cul-de-sac in Lee. Residents of Hamlea Close, just off Eltham Road, are angry about the International Academy of Greenwich’s plans to build a new site on the former Bowring Sports Ground, behind their houses. […]
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