Labour councillors have pressed their own housing department to build more family homes while approving plans for 15 new council homes on a green in Plumstead. A five-storey block of 13 flats and two townhouses on Gilbourne Road, near Rockliffe Manor primary school, were given approval on Tuesday night. They form part of the Greenwich […]
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Councillors criticise new homes’ design as 20 Greenwich Council flats approved
Greenwich councillors backed plans for new council homes in Eltham last night, but with both Labour and Conservative members criticising the design of their council’s own new block. The borough’s planning board endorsed proposals for 20 flats on the site of garages on Well Hall Road. But councillors said they were unhappy because of the […]
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‘Backdoor ghettoisation’: Next phase of Kidbrooke Village thrown out by Greenwich councillors
Greenwich councillors have thrown out revised plans for the next phase of the Kidbrooke Village development after voicing worries about the lack of local transport capacity, density and placing all the homes for affordable rent in one block. Berkeley Homes had hoped to build 1,306 homes to the south and east of the development, on […]
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‘Bland’ Greenwich High Road flats approved by reluctant councillors
Greenwich councillors reluctantly approved a five-storey block of 20 flats on Greenwich High Road in the borough’s first ever virtual meeting – with the outgoing planning chair branding the building “bland and uninspiring”. Councillors and officers gathered around their webcams to discuss the proposal on Tuesday afternoon, approving plans to knock down a three-storey office […]
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Losses double to £2.8m at Greenwich Council’s spin-off firm GS Plus
Losses at Greenwich Council’s spin-off firm, GS Plus, have more than doubled, a year after its bosses warned it faced trouble because of a decision to pay all staff the London Living Wage. GS Plus lost more than £2.8 million in the year ending March 2018, according to figures submitted to Companies House last week. […]
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