Plans for a new 28-storey tower on the banks of Deptford Creek have been approved due to their “architecturally superior” design, amid concerns over its height and lack of “affordable” housing. The Edition Group’s full planning application for Ravensbourne Wharf, which includes 129 residential units as well as office and cafe space, was approved by […]
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News about Deptford, London SE8, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Council officers back Greenwich Magistrates Court hotel plan
Council planning officers are backing a plan to turn the old Greenwich Magistrates Court and adjacent former school offices into part of a 293-room hotel. The listed courthouse, on Blackheath Road, was closed in 2016 and sold for £12 million. Cases from the area are now heard in Bexleyheath or Bromley. Now developers plan to […]
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Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook demands cruise ship pollution crackdown
Greenwich and Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook has called for a single regulator to govern shipping on the Thames so it can crack down on polluting cruise liners docking at Greenwich. Earlier this year, the new owner of Enderby Wharf in east Greenwich formally scrapped plans to build a cruise liner terminal which had been approved […]
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Work on Deptford’s cycle superhighway is brought forward
Work on Deptford’s new segregated cycle route has been brought forward to later this year, meaning riders will be able to cycle along Creek Road several months earlier than planned, Transport for London has said. Construction of Cycleway 4 – the new name for what had been called Cycle Superhighway 4 – from Tower Bridge […]
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Extinction Rebellion to hold People’s Assembly in Greenwich
Extinction Rebellion, the group set up to highlight government inaction on climate change, is holding a People’s Assembly in Greenwich on Saturday to discuss solutions to pollution and other issues with local people. The Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook will be among the speakers at the event, which takes place from 11am-6pm at the […]
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Can you help restore this forgotten piece of Deptford’s naval history?
A charity in Deptford is crowdfunding to enable the creation of a visitor centre to celebrate the shipbuilding heritage of the area. One of the project’s directors, HELENA RUSSELL, explains how you can help. The Lenox Project is bidding to raise funds for the renovation of a dramatic vaulted undercroft on the Thames riverfront, allowing […]
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Keep visiting our bars, Hop Stuff founder asks as landlord seizes brewery
The founder of troubled beer firm Hop Stuff has appealed to customers to keep visiting its bars in Woolwich and Deptford after its Thamesmead brewery was repossessed by its landlord. Hop Stuff’s troubles made national headlines at the weekend when The Sunday Times reported that a construction company had taken a winding-up order against it […]
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Lewisham Council backs ‘poor door’ Deptford flats despite pollution fears
A development in Deptford which will have a “poor door” and where residents on lower floors will be warned not to open their windows because of the high levels of air pollution was approved by Lewisham Council’s main planning committee on Tuesday night. The scheme at 1 Creekside – opposite the Birds Nest pub on […]
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