This website was the first media outlet to highlight how Greenwich councillors allowed developers to reduce the amount of “affordable” housing in part of the Greenwich Peninsula to zero. Councillors made the decision about Peninsula Quays on the basis of a “viability assessment” which had been kept from them – they had to trust Greenwich’s […]
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Stuck at North Greenwich: Can the peninsula cope with its new masterplan?
Update, Friday 17 April: The consultation period has now been extended to Tuesday 28 April. The general election’s well under way. But an arguably bigger decision for this part of south east London is also open for your thoughts – although you’ve only got until Friday to make your views known. Last month, Greenwich Council […]
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Greenwich Thames Path cyclists told to make way for driverless cars
Greenwich Council is quietly doing some very good things on cycling – like boosting cycle lanes, and experimenting with new on-street parking facilities. But it’s still capable of doing some very dumb things – such as closing a cycle lane on the Greenwich Peninsula so it can be used for trials of driverless cars. The […]
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Greenwich Peninsula social cleansing: Council loses battle to keep developer document secret
Residents on Greenwich Peninsula have won an 18-month battle to force Greenwich Council to release a document that influenced its decision to scrap all ‘affordable’ housing on a key development there. A tribunal has told the council it should release “viability assessments” which prompted it to cut a requirement for developer Knight Dragon to include […]
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Emirates Air Line cable car now has NO regular commuters
853 exclusive: It had just four regular commuters last year – now the Emirates Air Line cable car appears to have NO regular users at all between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, according to figures issued by Transport for London. No Oyster card holders used the £60m crossing more than five times during one […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Square wakes up as golf balls set to fly
It’s been a long-running moan on this site – the sad waste of space between North Greenwich station and the Dome. Well, it’s being wasted no more. Joining Meantime Brewing’s temporary Beer Box (due for a three-year stay) is a full-time bar/restaurant, Greenwich Kitchen, that’s billing itself as a “New York-style coffee shop”. It’s even […]
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Beer Box: Greenwich’s Peninsula Square finally springs into life
Seven years after the O2 opened, finally, finally, the miserable open space outside, Peninsula Square, has started to look like the “new leisure destination for Londoners and tourists alike” promised back then. New York band We Are Scientists opened up Meantime Brewery’s Beer Box with a blistering free live show last night. It looks like […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Square welcomes the World Cup
A year ago, I wrote how Peninsula Square, the open space between North Greenwich station and the Dome, planned as “a buzzing, exciting place to visit”, had become a sorely disappointing spot – simply nothing more than a glorified holding pen for O2 Arena customers. Twelve months on, and here was the scene as the […]
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