Five new councillors have been given seats on Greenwich Council’s main planning committee after new leader Danny Thorpe carried out his pledge to remove cabinet members from the Planning Board – but chief whip Angela Cornforth has joined it. Thorpe had pledged to take cabinet members out of planning after complaints that his predecessor, Denise […]
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News about Danny Thorpe, former council leader, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Sizwe James takes on regeneration role in Greenwich Council’s new cabinet
Thamesmead Moorings councillor Sizwe James has been handed the regeneration portfolio in new Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe’s first cabinet – putting him in charge of Woolwich’s controversial Spray Street development scheme, proposals for thousands of homes at Charlton Riverside, and other major planning issues. James takes over from Thorpe in the new role, now […]
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New Greenwich Council leader Thorpe promises planning shake-up
853 exclusive: Incoming Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has promised he will shake up the borough’s planning system – and will not sit on the borough’s main planning committee. No cabinet member will sit on the Planning Board, the committee which decides on major developments across the borough, he told Labour councillors in a manifesto […]
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Danny Thorpe to be new Greenwich Council leader after revolt fails
853 exclusive: Shooters Hill councillor Danny Thorpe is to be the new leader of Greenwich Council after winning an internal vote of Labour members on Wednesday evening, 853 can reveal. Rebel councillors had hoped to install housing cabinet member Averil Lekau, who had spoken out against a Thorpe-backed plan for a cruise liner terminal in […]
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Wellington Street Diary: Drummers herald the end of term at Greenwich Council
A round-up of stories and observations from last week’s Greenwich Council meeting, the last one before elections on 3 May. A lot happened, so it seems to make sense to bring them all together like this. Strange things happen in London’s town halls every four years. On Monday in Camden, it was a veteran Tory […]
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Greenwich councillors escape questioning over New Capital Quay fire risk and housing issues
Wednesday night at the council: Residents at the New Capital Quay development, which is covered in flammable cladding, were denied the chance to quiz Greenwich councillors about the issue at last week’s council meeting. Snowy and icy conditions led to the cancellation of most of Greenwich Council’s full meeting last week, meaning all parts of […]
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Storm in a toilet bowl: Councillors row over £600,000 Plumstead café plan
853 exclusive: A row has blown up inside Greenwich Council’s ruling Labour party after the borough’s deputy leader appeared to sign off over £600,000 in funding to convert a disused toilet in his ward into a café and community facility. Councillors received an email last month telling them that Danny Thorpe had approved the £580,000 […]
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Tesco tower campaigners appeal to council for more social housing in Woolwich
Wednesday night at the council: A 1,407-signature petition against plans for a 27-storey tower block in front of Woolwich Tesco was presented to Greenwich Council on Wednesday night, with protesters appealing to councillors to deliver more social rented homes in Woolwich. Woolwich Common councillor and cabinet member David Gardner presented the petition, gathered by campaign […]
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