853 exclusive: Other traders are interested in taking on the empty Woolwich Public Market after Street Feast abandoned its street food market there, Greenwich Council has told this website. The Public food and drink space opened in the dilapidated market in March 2018 after Street Feast, which also operates Model Market in Lewisham and Hawker […]
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News about Danny Thorpe, former council leader, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Extinction Rebellion dismisses Greenwich Council’s ‘climate emergency’
Extinction Rebellion activists have dismissed Greenwich Council’s plan to declare a climate emergency at next week’s council meeting as “business as usual”. The group, which is holding a “people’s assembly” at the University of Greenwich on Saturday, has been campaigning for the council to recognise the seriousness of the global warming threat and met councillors, […]
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Activists disrupt meeting as Greenwich Council nods through John Roan academy order
Greenwich Council has rubber-stamped the takeover of John Roan School by the United Learning academies trust amid angry scenes at Woolwich Town Hall, effectively ending a bitter struggle over the future of the historic Blackheath school. Last night’s meeting was suspended after disruption by activists from the John Roan Resists campaign, which has opposed the […]
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Silvertown Tunnel: Greenwich Council’s leader shrugs off calls to oppose new road
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has played down growing pressure for the council to condemn London mayor Sadiq Khan’s controversial Silvertown Tunnel. The council has consistently supported the new road between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, which is due to open in 2025, despite neighbouring Newham, Lewisham and Southwark opposing the crossing. Last week, […]
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Greenwich Council is listening more after my first year in charge, Danny Thorpe says
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe says the council has begun to listen more since he took charge of the town hall a year ago. Reflecting on his first year in charge of the Labour administration in the borough, Thorpe said when he took office that he wanted to change the way the council interacted and […]
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Only Labour councillors need to know about Greenwich cabinet roles, town hall told
Only Labour councillors need to know how Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe picks his cabinet, councillors were told last night after opposition members questioned why his deputy had been “downgraded” to “cabinet member for bollards”. The usually brief and uncontroversial annual general meeting – which chooses the ceremonial mayor and ratifies who will hold key […]
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Greenwich Council’s deputy leader to become cabinet member for bollards
The humble and much-maligned Greenwich Council bollard now has a new friend – the authority’s deputy leader David Gardner has become the cabinet member for public realm. Formerly the cabinet member for children’s services, Gardner’s new role is the biggest change in Danny Thorpe’s first cabinet reshuffle as council leader. With the poor state of […]
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Cut Greenwich Council’s cabinet members – but pay them more, councillor says
Greenwich Council’s ruling cabinet should have fewer members – but they should be better-paid, one of the borough’s Conservative councillors says. Spencer Drury’s suggestion comes five weeks after councillors handed themselves a 2 per cent rise in their allowances – their first in seven years – amid shambolic scenes after the papers recommending the rise […]
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