Parkrun could be coming to the Greenwich Peninsula later this year – but volunteers are needed to get it off the ground. There are 65 of the free 5k runs across London, including four in Greenwich borough and one just across the river from the peninsula, at Royal Victoria Dock. Each event is run by […]
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Greenwich cable structure could get same protection as Stonehenge
A structure next to the Thames in east Greenwich that helped enable the first transatlantic telephone call could receive the same protection as Stonehenge and the Tower of London. Historic England is considering recommending that the winding gear at Enderby Wharf is made a scheduled monument – a nationally-important archeological or historical site. If Historic […]
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Closed Greenwich backstreet pub to become six flats
A backstreet pub in east Greenwich is to become six flats after just seven objections were received by council planning officers. The Royal Standard in Pelton Road had traded for more than 150 years but had acquired a downmarket reputation in its later years and closed in 2020. Developers applied to extend the building and […]
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Greenwich student blocks approved despite councillors’ concerns
Councillors raised concerns about the amount of student housing being built in the borough as they approved plans for a seven-storey development in east Greenwich. Work on the three blocks, on the site of a former Speedy Hire branch on Woolwich Road, could start early next year, Greenwich Council’s planning board heard. Plans for 820 […]
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Improvements to lethal Greenwich roundabout ‘lost in the TfL ether’
Plans to rip out the notorious roundabout beneath the Blackwall Tunnel approach in east Greenwich may be “lost in the TfL ether”, councillors have been told – by a TfL official. Five years ago Transport for London proposed removing the Angerstein Roundabout – where Woolwich Road meets the A102 – and replacing it with […]
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Student housing blocks on Greenwich Speedy Hire site could get green light
Plans for three blocks of student housing in east Greenwich, one seven storeys tall, could get the go-ahead next week after council planners recommended they be approved. The blocks would replace the old Speedy Hire warehouse on Woolwich Road, close to the River Ale House micropub. Plans for 58 flats in a six-storey block on […]
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Greenwich Ikea’s unused community hub becomes co-working space
The community hub in Greenwich’s Ikea has been taken over by a high-end co-working operator after being unused for more than three years. But the Swedish furniture chain has said that community groups are still welcome to use the space on the top floor of the store, which opened six years ago on Friday. The […]
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Greenwich and Blackheath’s part-time LTN will start in late November
A rush-hour low-traffic neighbourhood in parts of Greenwich and Blackheath will begin at the end of November, Greenwich Council has confirmed in a letter to local residents. Though north-south through traffic will be barred from streets east and west of Greenwich Park between 7-10am and 3-7pm on weekdays. Those streets include Point Hill, Crooms Hill, […]
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