New Greenwich Council leader Anthony Okereke has been dealt an early setback after his own councillors threw out controversial plans for 70 flats close to Oxleas Woods – ignoring his Bob Dylan-style plea for them to back it. Meridian Home Start, a company spun off from the council, planned a nine-storey block at Shepherds Leas, […]
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Shepherds Leas: Nine-storey block near Oxleas Woods recommended for approval
Contentious plans for a nine-storey block of flats opposite Falconwood station have been recommended for approval by Greenwich Council officers, despite hundreds of objections. The development at Shepherds Leas, between the A2 and Rochester Way and next to the woodland of the same name, would include 70 flats, all on offer at about 65 per […]
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Reopen outdoor education centre that was visited by royalty, Greenwich Council told
An outdoor education centre in Eltham owned by Greenwich Council is lying unused four years after the charity that ran it closed, along with a centre in Kent that was visited by the Duchess of Cambridge only a decade ago. The Eltham Environment Centre on Bexley Road and Margaret McMillan House in Wrotham were operated […]
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We’ll push for DLR to Kidbrooke and Eltham, Greenwich Tories pledge in manifesto
Greenwich’s Conservatives have promised to press for a Docklands Light Railway link to Kidbrooke and Eltham using the Silvertown Tunnel as part of their manifesto for next week’s council elections. The Tories are also pledging to push for new links across the Thames at Charlton and Thamesmead, cleaner streets, more neighbourhood planning and a debate […]
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Eltham to Greenwich Park cycle route scrapped by Greenwich Council
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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