Primary schools in Greenwich and Lewisham are to remain closed until at least 18 January after councils across London threatened to take the education secretary Gavin Williamson to court. On Wednesday, Williamson announced that schools in 23 boroughs would remain closed after the Christmas holiday because of soaring coronavirus case rates in the capital. While […]
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News about Danny Thorpe, former council leader, from The Greenwich Wire.
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New schools shambles as government leaves Greenwich and Lewisham primaries off closure list
Primary schools in Greenwich have been thrown into confusion for the second time this month after the borough became one of the few in London not to be told to keep its schools closed next week. Schools in 23 boroughs, including Bexley, Bromley and Southwark, have been told to close until 18 January by education […]
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Objectors praised as Greenwich councillors defer plans for 80 council homes on Brook Estate
Local residents have persuaded Greenwich councillors to visit the site of 80 new council homes planned for green space in Kidbrooke after telling them they had their own plans for the land. Council officers had recommended the planning board rubber-stamp the new homes for the Brook Estate, planned as part of a pledge to start […]
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Schools saga ends as Greenwich Council leader asks heads to open up again
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe has ducked a legal battle with the government and asked the borough’s schools to open their doors again. Thorpe’s announcement ends 42 hours of disruption which began on Sunday afternoon when he asked schools to close from today because of increasing coronavirus cases. Heads complained they had been taken by […]
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Shambles as government and Greenwich Council squabble over school closures
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren and their families are caught in the middle of a row between Greenwich Council and the government this morning after education secretary Gavin Williamson tried to overturn leader Danny Thorpe’s attempt to close the borough’s schools to stop an alarming rise in coronavirus cases. Williamson sent a legal threat to […]
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We’ll stay open, academies say as heads learn about virus closures from Twitter
Updated story: Two academy schools will not be following Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe’s call for all the borough’s schools to close in light of increasing coronavirus cases among teenagers. Thorpe announced on social media on Sunday afternoon that he would be asking all the borough’s schools to switch to online learning from Tuesday, except […]
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Close your schools, Greenwich Council tells heads as virus cases shoot up
Greenwich Council has asked all the borough’s schools to close this week as the coronavirus spreads among the borough’s teenagers. Council leader Danny Thorpe announced this afternoon that he had asked schools to move to online learning from Tuesday, except for vulnerable children and those of key workers, because on “exponential growth that demands immediate […]
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Kidbrooke Park Road: 117 Greenwich Council homes on Thomas Tallis site approved
Greenwich councillors have unanimously backed plans for 117 new council homes on the old Thomas Tallis School site on Kidbrooke Park Road – the biggest development of new council homes in the borough since the 1980s. The scheme is part of the Greenwich Builds programme to begin work on 750 council homes before 2022, and […]
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