Hither Green mother and clean air campaigner Rosamund Kissi-Debrah is one step closer to a new inquest into her daughter’s death – but needs to raise £11,000 in four weeks to apply to the High Court. Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 from acute respiratory failure after years of coughing fits and seizures, and 27 […]
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News about Catford, London SE6, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Police called as Lewisham Council meeting descends into chaos
A Lewisham Council meeting descended into chaos last night, with all members of the public kicked out and police called. Angry residents were not satisfied with councillors’ responses to questions relating to chief executive Ian Thomas, who has left the council after just a few months in charge; the Tidemill development, which saw the council spend […]
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TfL bus cuts: New figures reveal SE London routes set for cuts are getting busier
Two south-east London bus routes which are threatened with service cuts saw an increase in passengers last year, according to new figures released by Transport for London. TfL plans to withdraw routes 53 (Plumstead station to Whitehall) and 171 (Bellingham to Holborn) from parts of central London as it grapples with money problems following the […]
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TfL plans permanent cutbacks for routes 53, 171 and 172 in huge bus axe scheme
853 exclusive: Transport for London is planning to make a huge swathe of cuts to bus routes in the centre of the capital – including stopping three of south-east London’s most important bus routes short of their current terminals. Route 53, which runs from Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton and Blackheath through Deptford, the Old Kent Road […]
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Lewisham East by-election: The stats behind the political story
The Westminster circus is parking its caravans in south-east London ahead of the Lewisham East by-election on 14 June, caused by the departure of Labour MP Heidi Alexander. Yet many of the statistics about the area spouted in the early stages of the poll have been misleading or just plain wrong. 853‘s resident stats geek […]
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‘Affordable’ housing on Greenwich Peninsula: The Channel 4 News investigation
Long-suffering readers will be aware that this website was the first to raise the issue of the diminishing amount of “affordable” and social housing on Greenwich Peninsula, back in April 2013. A year back, Greenwich Council lost a legal battle to keep secret the “viability assessment” council officers used to persuade councillors to increase the […]
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Bakerloo brush-off for Catford: Tube to Lewisham ‘set for 2030’
This has been kicking around for a few days, but as this website’s gong through a bit of an infrastructure phase, it’d be daft to ignore it – Transport for London’s commissioner has said the Bakerloo Line could be extended to Lewisham by 2030, running via the Old Kent Road and New Cross Gate. (See […]
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Lewisham bags a Bakerloo boost – but beware a backlash
It’s a relief to be able to write about some unalloyed good news – Transport for London is consulting on extending the Bakerloo Line to Lewisham, Catford and Hayes. Sure, the extension might be at least a decade and a half away, and plans for a Tube to Lewisham have been kicking around since the […]
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