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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Councillor calls for threatened Woolwich terrace to be restored
Greenwich Council’s deputy leader has called for four derelict terraced homes in Woolwich to be restored and brought back into use after a developer revealed plans to knock them down. The four homes on Sandy Hill Road, which have stood empty for years, would be demolished along with a neighbouring garage. They would be replaced […]
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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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Greenwich councillors sign off on £1.3m of cuts to voluntary groups
Greenwich councillors have signed off on £1.3m of cuts in funding to voluntary groups in the borough. Decision-makers were tasked with making the chop following a government axe to the public health funding pot. Grants worth £2.9m will be awarded following the cuts, but 99 applications were made by 63 groups asking for a combined […]
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Greenwich Council deputy leader apologises to academy chain over letter to parents
Greenwich Council deputy leader David Gardner has apologised to the academy chain hoping to run a Charlton primary school after criticising it in a letter issued to parents. Sherington Primary School is in talks with Leigh Academies Trust about becoming joining its academy chain, which includes 18 schools across south-east London and Kent. Earlier this […]
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Woolwich Common fire: Ministry of Defence ignored council demands to remove travellers’ rubbish
853 exclusive: The Ministry of Defence failed to clear up rubbish left behind by travellers for six weeks on a part of Woolwich Common devastated by a grass fire on Monday – despite being told to by Greenwich Council. Travellers set up camp on the common in early June and stayed for a week, abusing […]
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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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