A flopped commercial development in Deptford could be converted into a hotel and covered in images of Greenwich town centre if councillors give plans the go-ahead next week. The 12-storey Cavatina Point development on Creek Road was meant to be a hub for offices, shops and cafes when it opened in 2011. While the flats […]
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News about Deptford, London SE8, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Museum of Slavery and Freedom: ‘We want history told from Deptford’s point of view’
Deptford has a long naval history – but much of it is little talked about. EMILY FINCH met the local campaigners who want to tell the story of the area’s links with slavery. On a cold winter’s morning in 1762, a teenage boy was forced off his master’s ship and sold back into slavery on […]
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Lewisham Council ‘considering options’ for Deptford’s Wavelengths leisure pool
Lewisham Council says it is “considering the options” for the future of the leisure pool at the Wavelengths leisure centre in Deptford because it needs major repair works. The leisure centre is a favourite with families from both Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs, and its gym recently reopened after the coronavirus lockdown. But both its pools […]
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Farewell Quietway 1 – TfL’s backstreet cycle route is given a new name
The Quietway 1 cycle route, which links Greenwich and Deptford with the South Bank, is getting a new name as part of a plan to rebrand London’s cycleways. Signs have appeared along the route bearing the name Cycleway 10, which will be what the route will be known as in future. When Quietway 1 opened […]
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Council could back Santander Cycles expansion to Greenwich and Charlton
Greenwich Council has signalled it could back an expansion of London’s cycle hire scheme to the borough along the route of the new Cycleway 4. Southeast London was mostly not included in the London Cycle Hire network when it launched under Boris Johnson in 2010, although an extension into east London in 2012 brought the […]
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‘I want to start crying’: Residents who fear bankruptcy slam Robert Jenrick’s cladding fund
August 2022 update: Optivo announced in May 2022 that it would cover remediation costs for leaseholders at Norfolk House in Deptford, including waking watches and fire alarms. This story is from February 2021 and does not reflect the current situation. Residents living in flats wrapped in unsafe cladding and insulation in two SE London developments […]
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Greenwich & Woolwich MP Pennycook speaks out on cladding as Starmer visits Thamesmead
Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook has criticised “reprehensible” proposals to make leaseholders pay to make the cladding on their homes safe, hours after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visited Thamesmead residents who fear bankruptcy. Pennycook spoke out in a Labour debate in the House of Commons on the crisis following the Grenfell Tower disaster, […]
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Deptford locals win planning battle over controversial flats plan
A developer’s appeal against a planning refusal for a block of flats by a playground in Deptford has been dismissed by a planning inspector. Aurora Apartments wanted to build the three-storey building on a small plot of land by the Armada Community Project and Charlotte Turner Gardens in McMillan Street, just off Creek Road. Locals set up […]
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