The Silvertown Tunnel risks becoming a fiasco like Boris Johnson’s collapsed Garden Bridge project, a London Assembly member has warned Sadiq Khan. Caroline Pidgeon, a Liberal Democrat, has pressed the mayor to halt work on the new road between Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks, telling him in a letter that she cannot understand why […]
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News stories about Greenwich, London SE10, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Climate protesters stage Silvertown Tunnel protest at City Hall
Climate change activists have protested outside City Hall this morning as part of a new campaign against the planned Silvertown Tunnel. Protesters met London Assembly members Caroline Pidgeon (Lib Dem) and Caroline Russell (Green) and handed in a letter for mayor Sadiq Khan asking him to scrap the £1 billion project to build a new […]
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TfL unveils cycle route from Greenwich foot tunnel to Canary Wharf and Hackney
Transport for London has outlined its plans for a new cycle route from the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to Canary Wharf and Hackney. Detailed proposals have been unveiled for the northern part of the route – from Westferry DLR station to Lyme Grove in Hackney – with a proposed route sketched out from the foot tunnel […]
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Government fund to remove cladding ‘will lead to lottery’, campaigners warn
Vital funding announced by the Government today to replace flammable lining wrapped around more then 170 buildings will lead to a “cladding lottery”, an action group has warned. Nearly two years after 72 people died in a fire at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, 28 buildings in Greenwich borough still have combustible cladding. New Capital […]
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‘Poor door’ Greenwich Peninsula residents fear L&Q service charge hikes
Residents living in shared ownership flats on Greenwich Peninsula claim they will be priced out if service charges continue to be hiked. Neighbours in the Waterman Building and Bessemer Place claim their service charges have shot up 30 per cent over the last two years with little explanation from housing association L&Q. They say the increases […]
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Borough Hall sale could threaten Greenwich Theatre, councillors fear
Councillors claim a plans to sell Greenwich’s Borough Hall to a theatre company could eventually spell the end of Greenwich Theatre. The council plans to sell the Borough Hall, on Royal Hill, for a “performing arts hub” and it insists the style of theatre would be drastically different from what is on offer at the […]
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28 Greenwich borough buildings still covered in lethal cladding
More than two dozen buildings in Greenwich are still wrapped in dangerous cladding two years after the Grenfell fire tragedy. Hundreds of Greenwich residents continue to live in private homes lined with dangerous material blamed for the spread of the fatal blaze in North Kensington. The borough is thought to have one of the highest […]
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Brexit is hitting Greenwich’s tourism trade, culture councillor says
Tourists are being put off visiting Greenwich because of concern over the country’s impending departure from the European Union, the borough’s cabinet member for culture has warned. Stats from last year show that Royal Museums Greenwich – the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, Old Royal Naval College and Queen’s House – had seen a two […]
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