Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has confirmed he won’t intervene in Greenwich Council’s decision to allow a huge new Ikea superstore in east Greenwich. Greenwich Council gave outline permission for the store, on the site of the “eco-friendly” Sainsbury’s store in Peartree Way, in March. Planning officers ignored concerns about increased traffic and air pollution, a decision later backed […]
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News stories about Greenwich, London SE10, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Save Enderby House campaign launched by Greenwich locals
One of the saddest sights on Greenwich’s Thames Path is Enderby House, left vandalised and wrecked, neglected by developers who don’t seem to have a clue what to do with it. This is the site of the long-delayed cruise liner terminal, although much of the action on the site has been to build homes, presumably […]
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Greenwich’s mysterious Bugsby fends off Watermen’s Reach
Proof that not everything’s a done deal – and if you speak up, you can change things. Back in March, this website featured plans by the Port of London Authority to rename Bugsby’s Reach, the stretch of the Thames that passes Greenwich and Charlton, as Watermen’s Reach. Well, thanks to people getting off their backsides […]
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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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Residents launch fight against ‘planned chaos’ of Greenwich Ikea
Recognise the green space above? It’s the little eco-garden behind Sainsbury’s in Greenwich, which is due for demolition along with the supermarket if Ikea’s plans to build a store here go ahead. It’s also going to be where the No Ikea Greenwich Peninsula campaign will be launching with a picnic a week on Saturday (12 […]
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Beyond the Silvertown Tunnel: TfL eyes Ringway road revival
With smog levels high in London this week, you might think that anyone proposing major new road schemes for the capital would be laughed out of town. But Transport for London is considering reviving long-dead proposals for new orbital roads around the capital – raising the spectre of decades-old plans which threatened Blackheath Village and […]
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Bugsby’s holed? Why a bit of Greenwich’s history is under threat
There’s been some baffling stuff happening on the Greenwich Peninsula, but none quite as head-scratching as a plan to rename part of the River Thames. The Port of London Authority wants to rename Bugsby’s Reach, the stretch of the river along the east side of the Greenwich Peninsula towards Charlton. It plans to call it […]
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Greenwich Council ignores locals and backs new Ikea store
Greenwich Council’s planning board ignored well over an hour of public criticism last night to back outline plans by furniture giant Ikea to build a store in east Greenwich. The seven-strong board split on party lines to endorse the proposal, with the council’s Labour leader Chris Roberts among the five members backing the scheme – […]
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