Plans to redevelop disused university buildings in the centre of Woolwich have come back into the spotlight – with another row likely to break out over the lack of “affordable” housing. Much of the University of Greenwich’s old Island site, between Calderwood Street and Wellington Street and opposite the council’s Woolwich Centre HQ, has sat […]
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One of world’s biggest co-living schemes proposed for Woolwich’s Island Site
A giant co-living space – one of the world’s biggest – could come to Woolwich as part of a reworking of a controversial development in one of the town centre’s most prominent locations. Developers have written to the town hall asking for an early opinion on the environmental impact on building 660 co-living rooms at […]
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Councillors reluctantly rubber-stamp Woolwich Island Site development
Greenwich councillors reluctantly backed a changes to a major new development in Woolwich that would give it just four more homes for social rent at a meeting last week. The Island Site development in Woolwich, of 298 flats, shops and a dance school, had already been approved by councillors in 2017 – despite just 18 […]
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City Hall acts: Woolwich Island Site to gain just four more flats for social rent
A major development in Woolwich which was criticised by the local MP for a lack of social housing is to gain just four more units for social rent after City Hall intervened in the scheme. The project at the Island Site – the cluster of former Thames Polytechnic buildings on Wellington Street and Thomas Street […]
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Greenwich Council backs 300-home scheme to transform Woolwich’s old polytechnic buildings
Plans to transform the old Greenwich University block in Woolwich town centre with 300 new homes were backed unanimously by Greenwich Council’s main planning committee last night – but the proposals immediately ran into criticism for not including enough “affordable” housing. The “Island Site” – which includes the original 1880s Woolwich Polytechnic building – will […]
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