Shelters for the homeless usually have a high profile at Christmas – but how are they coping amid the pandemic? LAURA DAY spoke to Deptford’s 999 Club and the Greenwich Winter Night Shelter to see how they have had to adapt. At this time of year, homeless shelters and charities would usually be taking in […]
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News about Deptford, London SE8, from The Greenwich Wire.
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It’s finally here: Cycleway 4 is now open through east Greenwich
East Greenwich’s segregated cycle route has finally opened today, two months after it was originally due to see its first riders. The route from Old Woolwich Road to Farmdale Road, including a crossing of the notorious Angerstein roundabout, had been due to open in early October after work began in August, but work took twice […]
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Hills and Vales: Use cameras, not planters, to close roads, ambulance chiefs told Greenwich Council
The London Ambulance Service called for Greenwich Council to use cameras rather than planters for its low-traffic neighbourhood in some of the borough’s most affluent streets, correspondence between the two bodies reveals. Documents revealed under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that neither the ambulance service nor the London Fire Brigade objected to the closure […]
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Lewisham Covid-19 test centre joins growing list of SE London facilities
A new walk-in Covid-19 test centre has opened in Lewisham town centre, Lewisham Council announced at the weekend, increasing the number of testing facilities in south-east London. The new centre is in a car park on Molesworth Street, behind the Lewisham Centre, and is open from 8am to 8pm every day. However, tests are only […]
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Cycleway 4 works to resume in Deptford after pandemic pause
Work on creating the long-awaited segregated cycleway through Deptford is to resume on Monday after stopping in March when the coronavirus pandemic hit. Construction started in Creek Road about a year ago but was paused when the crisis began, and Transport for London switched its resources to rolling out new temporary lanes elsewhere in the […]
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Deptford Creek towers with no social housing approved after developer ‘sweetener’
Deptford Creek is to get two more tall towers after Lewisham councillors approved plans for 26 and 30-storey blocks without social housing on Copperas Street. The scheme went through on Tuesday night after the developer, Kitewood, threatened to cut the number of shared ownership homes if the proposals were rejected – a tactic branded “a […]
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Woolwich Works gets £984,000 emergency grant to beat coronavirus delay
The charity running Woolwich’s new creative district has been given nearly £1 million in emergency funding from the government after its plans to open this year were ripped up by the coronavirus pandemic. Woolwich Works had been due to open this autumn, providing a home for the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, the National Youth Jazz […]
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Get your mopeds out of Greenwich’s new cycleway, Papa John’s warned
A pizza takeaway in east Greenwich has been warned to get its mopeds out of a new segregated cycle lane after months of complaints about its delivery riders blocking the road. The route of Cycleway 4 passes Papa John’s on Woolwich Road, which had already become notorious for delivery riders blocking the path of cyclists […]
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