Rail passengers in southeast London will get a “turn up and go service” on most routes on Mondays to Saturdays from December, Southeastern has said, as it confirmed plans to reverse many of the service cuts made after the pandemic. Blackheath, Kidbrooke and Eltham stations are due to get more trains to Charing Cross from […]
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News about Blackheath, London SE3 – including Westcombe Park – from The Greenwich Wire.
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The Green Goddess in Blackheath is the best city pub in the land – it’s official
The Green Goddess in Blackheath has been named the best city pub in the country – less than four years after it opened its doors. Stephen and Maryann O’Connor took on the former Barclays Bank branch at the Royal Standard shortly after it closed, transforming it into a bar with space for brewing. After opening […]
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Greenwich Council sorry after banning anti-LTN leaflet from town hall
Greenwich Council has apologised after town hall security staff banned people from bringing in copies of a leaflet criticising its decision to press on with a low-traffic neighbourhood. The council decided last month to make the rush-hour traffic scheme permanent after a series of consultations ended. The LTN stops drivers from using north-south roads either […]
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Southeastern set to restore all-day link to Elizabeth Line in plan to reverse train cuts
Southeastern Metro trains in Greenwich and Bexley boroughs could mostly return to pre-Covid service levels by the end of the year – including bringing back an all-day direct link to the Elizabeth Line at Abbey Wood. “Rounder” services that linked the Greenwich and Sidcup lines on Mondays to Saturdays could be reintroduced as soon as […]
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Woodland Heights: New flats on top of former nurses’ home approved
Plans to add an extra floor to a five-storey block of flats overlooking Greenwich have been approved despite objections from people already living there. Greenwich Council’s local planning committee backed the proposal to add eight new homes to Woodland Heights, a former nurses’ home in Blackheath, last week. Previous plans were rejected by the council […]
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Silvertown Tunnel buses will be free until May, TfL confirms
The three buses that run through the Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnels will remain free until May 27, Transport for London has said. The concession was introduced in April last year to promote the Silvertown Tunnel and the two routes running through it – the 129 between Lewisham and Great Eastern Quay and the SL4 between […]
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Greenwich Council rejects scrutiny call and permanently imposes LTN
Greenwich Council has blocked a final attempt to challenge its controversial low-traffic neighbourhood – just days after denying it had airbrushed opposition to the project. Conservative deputy leader Charlie Davis had attempted to “call in” the final decision to approve the scheme after a statutory consultation which ended last month. This would have resulted in […]
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More than 250 homes could be built on sports ground disused since 1990s
More than 250 homes could be built on a playing field between Blackheath and Kidbrooke that has been disused for nearly 30 years. The last matches took place on the Huntsman sports ground, which lies between the private Blackheath Cator Estate and Berkeley Homes’ Kidbrooke Village development, in 1998, and there have been four unsuccessful […]
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