Transport for London has confirmed plans to sharply cut bus services between Greenwich and Woolwich by diverting route 180 so it starts at North Greenwich station. It has also rejected calls for an express version of the 161 between Woolwich and Eltham, claiming demand for the route “is not expected to increase significantly” when Crossrail […]
Charlton SE7 news
News stories about Charlton, London SE7, from The Greenwich Wire.
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‘Listen to residents’: Greenwich Council frustrated after mayor blocks housing refusals
Greenwich Council says London mayor Sadiq Khan needs to listen to local residents after he blocked its decision to refuse permission for two major housing developments in Charlton and Abbey Wood. Khan has called in decisions about the 771-home Rockwell Charlton Riverside scheme at Anchor & Hope Lane along with a 272-home proposal at Eynsham […]
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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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Pay more, skip the 108: Ford wants its Shooters Hill Shot buses to stop on Westcombe Hill
UPDATE: The Chariot application to run down Westcombe Hill was refused in October. Commuters in Blackheath and Charlton who are tired of crowded and unreliable buses to North Greenwich could be able to get a new service to the Jubilee Line hub – if they pay a little more. Car giant Ford, which launched its […]
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Greenwich Council cabinet told to reconsider Pocket Living land sales
Greenwich Council’s cabinet will have to look again at its plan to sell land on council estates to a private developer after residents and councillors lined up to criticise the scheme. But the cabinet member in charge of the proposal said that the proposals would help residents and fund new council housing in the borough. […]
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Greenwich Labour councillors to challenge estate land sales to private developer
Greenwich Council’s plans to sell plots of land on three estates to a private developer are to be formally challenged by Labour councillors. Pocket Living, which specialises in “affordable compact homes for first time buyers”, wants to build 151 one-bedroom flats across the three sites at The Heights, Charlton; Kidbrooke Park Close; and Quince Road […]
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Greenwich Council set to sell estate car parking spaces to ‘compact flats’ developer
Greenwich councillors have voted to sell car parking spaces on three estates in the borough to a private developer, promising to invest the proceeds in new council housing. The plots of land, in Charlton, Kidbrooke, and on the Lewisham border, will be sold to developer Pocket Living, subject to consultation with council tenants who live […]
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Jumbo hold-up: Greenwich councillors’ gasholder stand-off throws school opening in doubt
Greenwich councillors have refused to revoke a legal order allowing gas to be stored at the historic East Greenwich gasholder site – throwing into doubt the opening date of a new school just a few hundred metres away. Planning officers have already given permission for the No 1 gasholder, which sits at the entrance to […]
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