In a way, it’s a major shock. But if you were in Woolwich Town Hall yesterday, it’ll come as no surprise at all. Greenwich Council’s licensing committee has refused permission for the four Peninsula Festival licences – meaning no beach, no 20,000-capacity gigs, no campsite, and no “business lounge” on the Greenwich Peninsula during next […]
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Peninsula Festival plans criticised at licence hearing
Greenwich Council’s licensing committee is discussing the application to hold next summer’s Peninsula Festival after an day-long meeting at Woolwich Town Hall heard sharp criticism of the plans from police, Olympics chiefs and local residents. Four different licenses are being applied for, but the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London and Olympics organisers LOCOG lined up […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Festival aims for 45,000-capacity gigs
Backers of the Peninsula Festival have applied to Greenwich Council to hold 45,000-capacity concerts on an empty plot of land in the week before the Olympics. They want four shows to be held between 19 and 26 July 2012, with eight smaller concerts during the Olympics period itself. The application, for the land bounded by […]
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Riots: Woolwich sweeps up, Greenwich locks down
Tottenham lost Carpetright, and Croydon lost House of Reeves. In Woolwich, it’s the blackened shell of The Great Harry that’s the symbol of Monday night’s destruction of parts of the town centre. There’s now little left of what was a regularly packed pub. Now, thanks to the looters captured on video here, a whole heap […]
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Greenwich Council urged 286 bus cut to fund gyratory
Greenwich Council suggested cutting the frequency of one of the borough’s few north-south bus links to help pay for its plans to pedestrianise Greenwich town centre, according to documents released by Transport for London. The scheme was shelved after objections from Transport for London, and the documents outline TfL’s worries – including its estimate that […]
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Meet the man behind the Peninsula Festival
Frank Dekker walks along the riverside path, and gestures towards Canary Wharf. He’s sketching out a scheme for his planned beach on the Greenwich Peninsula. Why not get a sponsor to fund a water flume on the beach? “It’s limited only by our imaginations and what we can make happen commercially. The cost of a […]
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Greenwich Park Olympics: Now the work begins
It’s finally about to happen – the heavy work will start on Monday preparing Greenwich Park for this summer’s test events in advance of next year’s Olympics. A chunk of the park in front of the National Maritime Museum (marked in red on the map above) will be closed from 16 May to 10 August […]
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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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