853 exclusive: Greenwich Council is going ahead with plans to hold a “mayor-making” ceremony at the Old Royal Naval College’s Painted Hall against the wishes of its incoming mayor, and despite cutting £48m from its budget for this year. Last year’s event at the prestigious Greenwich venue cost £30,000 to stage, angering residents protesting against […]
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Delayed Cutty Sark stretching councillors’ patience
Greenwich Council might have approved the Olympic test events in Greenwich Park last week – the News Shopper’s Mark Chandler has done a great job in summing a fiddly issue up – but another decision taken at Thursday’s planning meeting shows how perilous planning around London 2012 can be. Also on the agenda was a […]
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The Wellington Street tapes: Listen to Greenwich Council meet
I thought I’d test out the new guidelines from the government last night and record some extracts from a Greenwich Council meeting. Well, it’s something to do on a Wednesday night. The result is what I believe is the first news story about the council’s affairs to feature audio from a council meeting – confirmation […]
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Woolwich gains from Greenwich gyratory loss
Some of the cash which was due to fund doomed plans to create a gyratory system in west Greenwich has been reallocated to Woolwich town centre, according to mayor Boris Johnson. London Assembly member Darren Johnson asked the mayor about the scheme’s funding, as it appeared delays to the project would mean Greenwich Council losing […]
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Council ‘suspends’ Greenwich gyratory scheme
There’ll be cheers in west Greenwich this weekend as the hated plans to create a huge gyratory system have been “suspended” by Greenwich Council – you can read the full story over at greenwich.co.uk, along with an exchange of e-mails between the three local councillors and leader Chris Roberts. It’s good news, if not entirely […]
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Free tickets – but what’s with Greenwich’s Olympics secrecy?
“Games bosses woo Greenwich with free tickets,” yells today’s Evening Standard, with news that Greenwich Council has been given “thousands of tickets” for “a top-class horse-riding event in the park”. Actually, news about the Olympic test events in early July was all announced three weeks ago, but then news of south-east London has traditionally reached […]
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Revealed: Why TfL doesn’t want a gyratory in Greenwich
Last month this blog reported on Transport for London’s objections to Greenwich Council’s plans to create a massive one-way system in west Greenwich to enable it to pedestrianise a small part of the town centre, following revelations from a local residents’ group, West Greenwich CARA. Now the full objections can be revealed, with the release […]
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Greenwich Council cuts £63m without a whimper
A newspaper journalist I chatted to took a camera along specially. I hid a little video camera just in case. But in the end, Greenwich Council cut £63m from its budget – said to be 30% of its outgoings – without a murmur of protest at Woolwich Town Hall on Wednesday night. In fact, when […]
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