Last Tuesday, Greenwich Council’s planning board approved a 330-home development in Victoria Way, Charlton, including two 10-storey towers and 144 car parking spaces, to jeers from the public gallery. The scheme was bitterly opposed by neighbours and the local ward councillors. But none of the six councillors on the planning board who backed the scheme […]
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News stories about Charlton, London SE7, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Greenwich councillor threatens libel action over developers’ cash blog story
A Greenwich Labour councillor has threatened a local blog author with legal action after he was criticised over the council’s record with large developments in his ward. Peninsula ward’s Stephen Brain, who recently took part in a photocall marking the start of work on the area’s new Ikea, hit back at the writer of From […]
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London Assembly member lambasts shortening of SE London’s cycle superhighway
A leading member of the London Assembly has criticised Transport for London’s shortening of south-east London’s first cycle superhighway, adding the effects of the Silvertown Tunnel have not been properly factored into the plans. If built, Cycle Superhighway 4 (CS4) will run from Tower Bridge Road to Deptford Creek Bridge along Tooley Street, Jamaica Road, […]
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Greenwich Council silent as Corbyn attacks estate ‘regeneration’ policies
Greenwich Council is keeping quiet after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared to attack its policy of redeveloping housing estates at last week’s party conference in Brighton. Corbyn pledged that a future Labour government would ensure that residents affected by plans to rebuild estates “must get a home on the same site and the same terms […]
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Blackheath residents fear phone mast at end of their gardens after Greenwich Council planning blunder
A Greenwich Council planning blunder means residents in Blackheath may get a mobile phone mast at the end of their gardens – despite planners refusing permission for it. Residents who thought their protests against the mast had paid off were shocked to find diggers turning up last week – and had to persuade contractors to […]
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TfL bus cuts threaten route 180 through Lewisham, Greenwich and Charlton
9 July update: Here is the latest on this story. Transport for London could axe bus route 180 between Lewisham and Charlton, according to a document released by Greenwich Council earlier this month. The service – which currently runs between Lewisham and Belvedere via Greenwich, Charlton, Woolwich, Plumstead and Abbey Wood, could be diverted to […]
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Dirty borough: Greenwich’s street sweeping boss leaves council after complaints
The man in charge of Greenwich Council’s street sweeping has parted company with the authority after streets in some parts of the borough were left unswept for weeks. Matthew Norwell, Greenwich’s director of community services, left before Christmas “by mutual agreement”, the council has confirmed. Councillors were frustrated at the failure of his department to […]
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Greenwich and Woolwich could get Luton Airport trains from 2018
Greenwich, Charlton and Woolwich could get direct trains to Luton Airport under plans that are about to go out to consultation. The plans would see trains seven days a week from Luton to Rainham, Kent, via Blackfriars, London Bridge, Greenwich and Dartford. More services through London Bridge to north London and beyond will be possible […]
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