Greenwich Council’s cabinet agreed to put the historic Borough Hall on the market tonight without discussing the issue in public. The planned sale of the Grade II-listed building comes after plans to lease it to the theatre company Selladoor collapsed without agreement. Selladoor, which runs regional theatres across the UK, had planned to add a […]
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Greenwich’s historic Borough Hall set to go up for sale after theatre plan collapses
Greenwich Council is poised to put its historic Borough Hall in west Greenwich up for sale after a plan to lease the building to a theatre company collapsed. The council had attempted to strike a deal with Selladoor, a Deptford-based company which runs regional theatres across the UK. The company had planned to put in […]
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Greenwich Council boss ‘sought to protect fraud trial councillor from press’
Greenwich Council’s most senior officer has said her job was to “protect” a councillor accused of owning property while living in a council home from a media inquiry, a fraud trial heard today. Debbie Warren, the council’s chief executive, told a jury at Inner London Crown Court that she met Tonia Ashikodi three times on […]
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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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Councillors reject £1.3m Greenwich Info contract after admitting they don’t get council freesheet
Greenwich councillors have rejected a £1.3m contract to print and distribute the council’s fortnightly magazine Greenwich Info – with all three councillors on the panel declaring it was not delivered to their homes. Council officers had planned to spend the money renewing a joint three-year deal alongside other boroughs for printing and delivery services, but […]
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Council and heritage trust sorry after bungled Greenwich archive closure
Greenwich Council and the Royal Greenwich Heritage Trust have apologised for the way they handled the closure of the borough’s archive after the issue threatened to hold up plans for the £31 million “creative district” in Woolwich. Angry archive users addressed Tuesday night’s planning board meeting, which gave approval for the change of use of […]
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Greenwich Council’s new chief executive could get more than £200,000 per year
Greenwich Council’s next chief executive could be paid as much as £202,900 per year, documents prepared for a meeting next week reveal. The council’s administration has been run by finance boss Debbie Warren since former chief executive John Comber retired in August 2017. She is currently paid between £190,000 and £195,000. But a committee of […]
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Greenwich Labour councillor owned a house while living in a council flat
A Greenwich Labour councillor lived in a council flat in Plumstead while being named as the owner of a house in Thamesmead which was not declared on her register of interests, an 853 investigation has found. Tonia Ashikodi, who was re-elected in Glyndon ward in last month’s elections, was named as the owner of the […]
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