853 exclusive: Plans for an Olympic campsite on Greenwich Peninsula are being scaled back after Dutch firm Oranjecamping pulled out of the project just weeks before its planned opening date. Tickets are still being sold for Oranjecamping London, but the firm will now no longer be operating the site, whose backers hoped to attract 4,000 […]
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News stories about Greenwich, London SE10, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Greenwich Peninsula cable car station – final design revealed
You might have seen the Greenwich cable car in action over the bank holiday, with tests being stepped up. From halfway up the hill in Charlton, with the gondolas sat in pairs across the river, it looked a bit like a set of Christmas lights nobody had bothered to turn on. There’s still plenty of […]
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The Cutty Sark – what the Queen will see today
The weather forecast is dire, but a bit of pomp and ceremony will come to Greenwich today when the Queen reopens the new-look Cutty Sark. Some will grovel, others will grumble, but the arrival of the head of state is a big and appropriate honour for what has been a fantastic restoration job. There was […]
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Lifts breaking, lights flickering in ‘revamped’ Greenwich foot tunnel
So, after £11.5 million was spent on refurbishing the Greenwich Foot Tunnel, what’s it like now the new lifts are working? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y4tJ3AvfR4&w=640&h=360%5D Well, the light isn’t working, one of the glass windows has already been smashed, and you’ll have to wait a while for the lift…. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLL9Goo_ijM&w=640&h=360%5D When the lift comes, it takes […]
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No horses, no Irish – NOGOE goes back to the 70s
The latest communiques from NOGOE, the always open-minded opponents of the Olympics in Greenwich Park. If they’re trying to work out why nobody’s listening to their claims that the rebuilding of the Blackheath gates (and the remodelling of an iffy junction) is “Olympic vandalism”, then these might provide an answer… 9pm update: I’ve tidied the […]
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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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Consultation time: Tell Boris where to stick his Silvertown Tunnel
A little late with this, but Transport for London has launched its consultation into plans to build a tunnel between the Greenwich Peninsula and Silvertown – in effect, a third Blackwall Tunnel. I’ve already outlined why this is a barmy, dangerous idea – and judging by the poll on last month’s post, most of you […]
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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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