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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News about Blackheath, London SE3 – including Westcombe Park – from The Greenwich Wire.
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Council objected to plans to stop rat-running traffic in Greenwich Park
Greenwich Council has objected to plans to stop through traffic from running through Greenwich Park – despite wanting the same measures in streets either side of the historic open space. Car drivers had been allowed to use the park as a short-cut during the rush hour until last March, when the park was closed to […]
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Maze Hill and Westcombe Park low-traffic neighbourhood ‘just the start’, council says
Plans to introduce a low-traffic neighbourhood in Blackheath and east Greenwich are “just the start” of a programme of schemes, Greenwich Council has said. The council is consulting on plans to stop through traffic running down Maze Hill, Vanbrugh Hill, Halstow Road and Westcombe Hill in response to persistent jams in residential roads. Buses, emergency […]
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Cameras to enforce Maze Hill low-traffic neighbourhood
Cameras will be used to enforce Greenwich’s next low-traffic neighbourhood, which aims to stop rat-running on streets east of Greenwich Park. Greenwich Council confirmed in December that it was planning measures to stop traffic attempting to use Maze Hill and Vanbrugh Hill as a shortcut, which has led to persistent queues blighting local streets. Now […]
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South Row’s planters go, but Lewisham Council still wants to cut Blackheath rat-run
Lewisham Council says it still wants to stop traffic from using a Blackheath rat-run, six months after suspending the scheme because of problems faced by nearby almshouses. Planters and a bollard were placed in South Row in June as part of a programme to make it easier for people to walk and cycle while capacity […]
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TfL to look again at traffic impact of Silvertown Tunnel
Transport for London is to re-examine the impact the controversial Silvertown Tunnel will have on south-east and east London’s traffic because of the extension of the central London congestion charge. Detailed studies into traffic were done ahead of the public hearings into the new road, which were held in 2016 and 2017, ahead of it […]
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‘One of the worst applications I’ve seen’: 63 flats approved for Blackheath Hill by Lewisham Council
A development on the Blackheath-Greenwich border that will see trees cut down and leave disabled residents in darkness was criticised in light of the conclusion of Ella Kissi-Debrah’s inquest. The nine-year-old, who lived near the South Circular in Catford, became the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of […]
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Hills and Vales: Use cameras, not planters, to close roads, ambulance chiefs told Greenwich Council
The London Ambulance Service called for Greenwich Council to use cameras rather than planters for its low-traffic neighbourhood in some of the borough’s most affluent streets, correspondence between the two bodies reveals. Documents revealed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that neither the ambulance service nor the London Fire Brigade objected to the closure […]
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