Greenwich Council’s cabinet has rubber-stamped plans to look at building 268 new council homes on 32 sites around the borough – the largest council home building programme in many years. Council officers are to begin surveying the sites in the coming months to see which are suitable – cabinet member Chris Kirby warned that not […]
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Leaders squabble as Greenwich Council backs 2.99% tax rise
Greenwich Council raised its council tax by 2.99% last night – but the meeting descended into a bad-tempered spat after council leader Danny Thorpe accused Tory leader Matt Hartley wanting “to set up a little army of bailiffs” to target poorer residents. Overall bills will go up by 4.2% after London mayor Sadiq Khan increased […]
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Morris Walk Estate: ‘Misleading rumours’ criticised as estate redevelopment delayed
Greenwich Council has hit out at “misleading rumours” that a major scheme to redevelop Morris Walk Estate has been delayed for nine years. The programme, which will see the estate on the border of Woolwich and Charlton knocked down and replaced with new housing, was due to begin this year. Demolition was due to start […]
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Greenwich gets £32.6m from City Hall for 588 new council homes
Greenwich’s plan to build hundreds of new council homes has been given the go-ahead by City Hall, with the town hall getting a £32.6 million grant from London mayor Sadiq Khan. The cash is part of a £1.1 billion programme to kickstart council house-building across the capital, and will pay for 588 homes to be […]
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Greenwich’s Sam Manners House to close despite neighbours’ worries
Greenwich Council’s cabinet has backed plans to close a sheltered housing block in east Greenwich, despite neighbours’ worries that the building will be left empty for years. Councillors want the site of Sam Manners House, in Tuskar Street, to be used for new council housing if a bid to City Hall for funding is successful. […]
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Greenwich sheltered housing block set to be replaced by new council housing
Greenwich Council signed off on its plans to build 750 new council homes last night – with a sheltered housing complex in east Greenwich set to be redeveloped as part of the scheme. The council’s cabinet agreed the plans, which include starting 750 new council homes before 2022 along identifying sites for a further 300 […]
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Ex-Thomas Tallis School site earmarked as Greenwich confirms plans for 750 council homes
The former Thomas Tallis School site in Kidbrooke has been earmarked for up to 400 new homes as Greenwich Council confirmed plans to start building around 750 council properties before 2022. Proposals first emerged last month, when housing cabinet member Chris Kirby gave an outline of the plans in a guest piece for local planning […]
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Greenwich Council’s anti-Donald Trump motion passes: Why the Tories were wrong not to back it
Memories of the British National Party’s presence in south-east London during the 1990s loomed over Woolwich Town Hall on Wednesday night as Greenwich councillors debated a motion urging the Government to overturn Donald Trump’s planned state visit to the UK. 853 editor DARRYL CHAMBERLAIN, the only journalist sat in the council chamber, sets the scene […]
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