Hugely controversial plans for a cruise liner terminal at Enderby Wharf, east Greenwich, were approved on Tuesday night after a marathon four-hour session of Greenwich Council’s planning board – with councillors dismissing fears of air pollution from the ships. I couldn’t be at Woolwich Town Hall, so have to leave you in the hands of […]
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News about Danny Thorpe, former council leader, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Greenwich Council plans to reveal ‘affordable’ housing assessments
This has been covered elsewhere but it’s worth noting a welcome change of heart from Greenwich Council – it wants to force developers to reveal why they can’t provide set amounts of ‘affordable’ housing in the borough. The council’s consulting on new rules on the information firms must provide when they apply for planning permission. […]
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Will Greenwich Council buy Avery Hill Park’s Mansion site?
Greenwich Council is considering whether or not it should buy the University of Greenwich’s Mansion site in Eltham, according to a written answer given at Wednesday night’s council meeting. The university announced last December that it planned to sell the campus at Avery Hill Park, home to the historic Winter Garden, a Grade-II listed Victorian […]
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Greenwich Tories’ tall ships scrap scheme scuttled by Labour
Proposals by Greenwich Council’s Conservatives to cancel 2017’s return of the tall ships were thrown out last night as councillors passed the borough’s annual budget. There was very little detail to last night’s budget – much of it had been decided last year as part of a plan to freeze council tax for two years […]
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Will Greenwich Council’s new boss be the same as the old boss?
So, last week, Chris Roberts said his farewells as Dear Leader. I’m told he was still in his office at Woolwich Town Hall as the minutes ticked down until the end of his reign at 7pm last Wednesday. And as the effective editor of the council’s weekly newspaper, Greenwich Time, he got to pen his […]
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Greenwich councillors sceptical over Lewisham A&E plans
It was a night when the questions were better than the answers. About 30 demonstrators gathered to greet NHS administrator Matthew Kershaw when he arrived at Woolwich Town Hall on Thursday to take questions from a group of Greenwich councillors about his plans to revamp south-east London’s NHS, including the downgrading of Lewisham Hospital’s A&E […]
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