It’s been a very long time in coming, but walkers and cyclists could soon be able to use the Thames Path uninterrupted between Charlton and Woolwich – with plans to build a new path over the riverfront. Currently, the Thames Path from central London stops dead at the Thames Barrier, with anyone wanting to continue […]
Charlton SE7 news
News stories about Charlton, London SE7, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Greenwich Peninsula social cleansing: The radio documentary
This website was the first media outlet to highlight how Greenwich councillors allowed developers to reduce the amount of “affordable” housing in part of the Greenwich Peninsula to zero. Councillors made the decision about Peninsula Quays on the basis of a “viability assessment” which had been kept from them – they had to trust Greenwich’s […]
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Fix the 53: Petition demands bus runs to Whitehall once again
Back in January, this website noted the sudden cut to bus route 53 caused by roadworks by Westminster Bridge. The service stopped running the full length of its route to Whitehall, depriving many local workers, from cleaners to civil servants, of their usual route to central London. The diggers have moved away from Bridge Street, […]
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Watch a train trip up Greenwich’s Angerstein Wharf freight line
You might remember last summer, this website mentioned a special rail trip up the Angerstein Wharf branch line, which links the main network with riverside industries in both Greenwich and Charlton. 853 reader John decided to shell out for the all-day trip which included a trip up the line. He says: “I live on Bramshot […]
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Whitehall cut – TfL takes temporary axe to route 53
The 53. Everybody loves the 53. It finds the parts of south-east London other links with the centre of town can’t reach – even if it isn’t allowed too near any fun spots any more (Routemasters ran to Camden until 1988, it last reached Oxford Circus in 2003). The Plumstead to Whitehall service is also […]
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Greenwich’s mysterious Bugsby fends off Watermen’s Reach
Proof that not everything’s a done deal – and if you speak up, you can change things. Back in March, this website featured plans by the Port of London Authority to rename Bugsby’s Reach, the stretch of the Thames that passes Greenwich and Charlton, as Watermen’s Reach. Well, thanks to people getting off their backsides […]
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Beyond the Silvertown Tunnel: TfL eyes Ringway road revival
With smog levels high in London this week, you might think that anyone proposing major new road schemes for the capital would be laughed out of town. But Transport for London is considering reviving long-dead proposals for new orbital roads around the capital – raising the spectre of decades-old plans which threatened Blackheath Village and […]
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Bugsby’s holed? Why a bit of Greenwich’s history is under threat
There’s been some baffling stuff happening on the Greenwich Peninsula, but none quite as head-scratching as a plan to rename part of the River Thames. The Port of London Authority wants to rename Bugsby’s Reach, the stretch of the river along the east side of the Greenwich Peninsula towards Charlton. It plans to call it […]
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