Greenwich Council has said it is opposed to plans to build a data centre on the Charlton riverside, with a senior councillor branding the scheme “a nuisance” for existing and future residents. A 100,000-square metre centre, the size of 14 football pitches, is planned for land off Anchor and Hope Lane, near the Thames and […]
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Lime and Forest warned over abandoned bikes in Greenwich Foot Tunnel
Lime and Forest have been warned over the number of hire bikes abandoned by their customers in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. Greenwich Council’s cabinet member for transport, Calum O’Byrne Mulligan, said that if they did not address the situation, it would “bring into question whether or not they are fit to operate in our borough”. […]
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Student tower and circular park set for Greenwich gasholder site
Six years after the east Greenwich gasholder was demolished, plans to build a student tower and two residential blocks on the site have been submitted to the council. The striking structure had stood on the Greenwich Peninsula for more than 130 years until it disappeared from view during the first pandemic lockdown of 2020. Now […]
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Lewisham planners against Deptford Bridge flats – but Greenwich could support
Lewisham Council officers have recommended that an 800-home development at Deptford Bridge be refused – but their counterparts in Greenwich believe it should go ahead. Both councils’ main planning committees will meet on September 24 to decide on the complex proposal for the former Lewisham College building, which straddles the boundary between the two boroughs. […]
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Six flats planned for car park sold by Greenwich Council last year
Six flats could be built on a car park that was sold by Greenwich Council last year as part of its “fire sale” of properties. The three-storey block is planned for Torrance Close, in Charlton Village, on a site which netted £410,000 at auction in December last year. Fencing went up around the 18-space car […]
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Blackheath car park nets £1.1 m in Greenwich Council ‘fire sale’
Greenwich Council’s latest car park sale has netted more than a million pounds after 30 spaces in Blackheath went under the hammer. Former tram shelters in Eltham and old toilets in Greenwich also found buyers in the sale of council assets. The car park, on Old Dover Road, sold for £1,155,000 at the online auction […]
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Greenwich set to finally introduce 20mph borough-wide speed limit
Greenwich Council is planning to introduce a 20mph speed limit across the borough, bringing it into line with the rest of inner London. A formal consultation has begun into making the change, ten years after neighbouring Lewisham was among the first boroughs to cut speed limits. TfL analysis published last year found that the number […]
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Rickardo Hyatt backed to be Greenwich Council’s new chief executive
Greenwich Council will have a new chief executive after councillors backed appointing Rickardo Hyatt to the top job at Woolwich Town Hall. Hyatt, who was brought up in Lewisham, will become Greenwich’s most senior council officer on a salary of about £240,000. He will be in charge of about 4,000 staff. His appointment was confirmed […]
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