Plans to create a cycle route between Eltham and Greenwich Park have been quietly scrapped in the latest setback for campaigners hoping to make the borough safer for walking and cycling. Greenwich Council had planned to create a cycle route from Eltham High Street to Greenwich Park, using a segregated route on Eltham Hill and […]
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Damp forces tenants out of new Greenwich Council-backed homes in Eltham
Tenants have been forced to leave two of the first homes built by a Greenwich Council-backed housing company because of structural problems, 853 can reveal. Workers are on site at Jack’s Acre, off Rochester Way in Eltham, after householders found water and damp were getting into their homes, which were completed in 2019. Patio doors […]
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Fixing Eltham’s Winter Garden will boost high street, council said in failed ‘levelling-up’ bid
Plans to revamp the Avery Hill Winter Garden would boost Eltham High Street and bring a wider range of visitors to the area, Greenwich Council told the government in a failed bid for £4.75m of “levelling-up” money, 853 can reveal. Council leader Danny Thorpe and Eltham MP Clive Efford reacted with anger last October when […]
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Make ULEZ London-wide, says mother of girl who died from air pollution
The mother of a nine-year-old girl who died as a result of air pollution has called on Sadiq Khan to extend London’s ultra-low emission zone beyond the North and South Circular to cover all over the capital. Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lived close to the South Circular Road in Catford, died in 2013. She became the […]
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Mercury Man: Hey Joe, I heard you busking on Eltham High Street
Heard some familiar sounds in Eltham High Street recently? 853‘s special correspondent and turf investment adviser MERCURY MAN has been talking to the man playing them… The chances of coming across a Portuguese guitarist playing in Eltham High Street, just outside Clinton’s, and asking him politely if he knows any Bert Jansch, only for him […]
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Get a booster at The Valley this weekend – and help others get jabbed too
Charlton Athletic’s stadium is becoming a vaccination clinic this weekend as demand soars for Covid-19 booster jabs. Long queues have been seen outside hospitals and pharmacies this week after doses were made available to all adults in response to the spread of the Omicron variant. The most high-profile vaccination centre in south-east London will be […]
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Meet 15-storey Leegate developers, Greenwich deputy leader urged
Greenwich Council has been pushed to do more about the Leegate redevelopment on the borough’s border with Lewisham – but its deputy leader would not commit to meet the company behind plans for tower blocks on the site. Galliard Homes wants to build towers of 15, 13 and 11 storeys on the site of the […]
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Mind the swans! Nearly 200 take part in first Sutcliffe Parkrun
Almost 200 people ran or walked their way around Sutcliffe Park in Eltham this morning as Greenwich borough gained its second Parkrun. The free weekly event’s debut comes 21 months after 853 reported how Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe intervened to help volunteers after they complained of town hall officials being obstructive. Since then, the […]
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