I couldn’t be at Wednesday night’s Greenwich Council meeting, having been otherwise occupied for much of this week. So, instead of watching councillors row over debate our council tax bills, I was on the sofa with a laptop, the England match, and a chilled glass of Dioralyte. There’s a lot of it about, you know. […]
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Sealed with our cash – Greenwich councillors get royal certificates
Thank you to the kind person who managed to sneakily snap this for me… Every Greenwich councillor was given one of these last week – a commemorative certificate, with a seal, to mark the fact that they are part of a council serving a royal borough. It’s worth remembering it’s the borough – which contains […]
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Watching Greenwich Council – if you don’t do it, nobody else will
The News Shopper did something unexpected last week. It published a story bemoaning the secrecy which surrounds Greenwich Council. All very good stuff. Of course, they’re entirely correct – huge decisions are being taken by senior councillors with very few checks and balances in place. What they’re not saying, though, is how the ailing local […]
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Council eyes 40,000-capacity arena for Greenwich Peninsula
Thought one concert arena was enough for the Greenwich Peninsula? Plans released by Greenwich Council reveal it’s giving serious consideration to a second, open-air, arena on the west side of the peninsula. The idea is floated in a new masterplan for Greenwich Peninsula West, designed to set out how the area could look in 15 […]
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Greenwich Council funds Peninsula Festival after denying it
Something this website has missed over the past couple of months is the upturn in fortunes for the Peninsula Festival – after being comprehensively refused licences in September, plans for concerts on a patch of land between the Pilot pub and the A102 were approved last December, proposals for a campsite have also been backed […]
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Greenwich Law Centre loses judicial review of council cut
A bit late with this, but Greenwich Community Law Centre lost its judicial review of Greenwich Council’s decision to cut its funding. You can read the full judgment from Mr Justice Cranston, who concluded: “It is with considerable regret that I reach the conclusions I do. Greenwich CLC is a long established law centre. Its […]
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Christmas surprise – inside the reopened Woolwich Foot Tunnel
A Christmas present from Greenwich Council – and no, not the three copies of Greenwich Time that appeared on my doormat on Wednesday. Woolwich Foot Tunnel reopened at 6am yesterday after being completely closed for at least 15 months. The news came out of nowhere – particularly as Greenwich had claimed the tunnel wouldn’t be […]
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Eltham DLR bid ‘to challenge TfL’, says council leader
Greenwich Council’s cabinet has agreed to spend up to £45,000 on further studies into a Docklands Light Railway extension to Eltham, with leader Chris Roberts declaring he wanted to “challenge Transport for London’s mentality” on new transit links. The council has already spent £25,000 on the report via its Eltham Regeneration Agency, which suggests an […]
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