A mental health charity based in Blackheath has won a national award for its work in supporting pregnant women and new mothers in southeast London. Since it was founded in 2012, MumsAid has supported over 2,000 mothers and given 15,000 counselling sessions. It offers counselling for individuals and couples, befriending, a group therapy programme with […]
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News about Blackheath, London SE3 – including Westcombe Park – from The Greenwich Wire.
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Controversial plan for 63 flats on Blackheath Hill gets green light from Sadiq Khan
London mayor Sadiq Khan has declined to intervene in plans for a controversial development of 63 flats on Blackheath Hill, on the border of Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs. Developers GS8 and Vabel plan to demolish the Blackheath Business Estate to build two blocks of nine and seven storeys, along with a four-storey workspace building. Lewisham’s strategic planning committee – its equivalent […]
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Neighbourhood champions: How to look after your community in a pandemic
Evie Hoyte has been looking out for the people of Woodville Estate for 50 years. In the last of our series of features about how SE Londoners have dealt with the pandemic, she spoke to SAM DAVIES about the unique challenges she’s faced in the past 12 months. “Twenty-seven people live along here, but you […]
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Greenwich Conservatives to demand referendums on low-traffic neighbourhoods
Conservative councillors have demanded that referendums should be held before low-traffic neighbourhood schemes are introduced in Greenwich, and are calling for the extension of the Ultra Low Emissions Zone to the South Circular Road in October to be scrapped. A motion to be put before next Wednesday’s council meeting calls for plans for LTNs to […]
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South Row: Blackheath rat-run saga could end with Greenwich Council cameras
The saga of making a notorious Blackheath rat-run safer for walkers and cyclists could be about to come to an end, with Greenwich Council preparing to stop through traffic from using Kidbrooke Gardens and South Row to reach Blackheath Village. Last summer Greenwich complained that it had not been consulted after neighbouring Lewisham Council placed […]
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London Labour members stage late revolt against Sadiq Khan’s Silvertown Tunnel
Labour members on both sides of the Thames have united to condemn Sadiq Khan’s plans to build the Silvertown Tunnel, with just weeks to go until the mayor stands for re-election. Constituency parties in Greenwich & Woolwich and West Ham, covering each end of the proposed road crossing, have passed motions calling on the Labour […]
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Westcombe Park residents should be able to drive through traffic blocks, ward councillors say
Two councillors have called for local residents to be allowed to drive through proposed road closures planned for streets between Greenwich Park and the Blackwall Tunnel approach. Conservative Geoff Brighty and Labour’s Leo Fletcher, who both represent the Blackheath Westcombe ward, spoke as their colleagues on Greenwich Council’s highways committee recommended an existing low-traffic neighbourhood […]
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Council wanted Greenwich Park to be used as morning rush-hour traffic route
Greenwich Council wanted Greenwich Park to be a temporary route for morning rush-hour motorists because of the increase in traffic levels after the first lockdown, after months of it being closed to through traffic. On Sunday, 853 revealed that the council had objected to plans to make a ban on rat-running through the park permanent, […]
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