The Greenwich Wire exclusive: Traders who served the new Kidbrooke Village community during the pandemic face being evicted from their pitches to make way for permanent shops. One stallholder, Stefano Frigerio, fears it could be the end for his business after three years of serving coffees outside Kidbrooke station. The pitches in Pegler Square have […]
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Southeastern rail cuts ‘could damage Kidbrooke Village regeneration’
Labour and Conservative councillors have united to warn that government cuts to SE London rail services could harm the new Kidbrooke Village development, where over 5,000 new homes are being built, and called for local trains to be devolved to the mayor instead. There has been a wave of anger at Southeastern’s plans to reduce […]
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Sabina Nessa: Vigil to be held for teacher murdered in Kidbrooke
A vigil will be held on Friday evening for Sabina Nessa, the teacher who was murdered in Kidbrooke last week. Police believe that the 28-year-old, who worked at Rushey Green Primary School in Catford, was killed in Cator Park, on the Kidbrooke Village development, at about 8.30pm last Friday. Her body was not found until […]
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‘This isn’t ghettoisation’: Planning chair’s U-turn as revamped Kidbrooke Village scheme passes
Altered plans for the next phase of the Kidbrooke Village development were passed by Greenwich councillors last night – with the chair of planning taking back his comments made three months ago that the scheme represented “backdoor ghettoisation”. Proposals to build 1,306 homes to the south and east of the development, on land formerly occupied […]
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‘Backdoor ghettoisation’: Next phase of Kidbrooke Village thrown out by Greenwich councillors
Greenwich councillors have thrown out revised plans for the next phase of the Kidbrooke Village development after voicing worries about the lack of local transport capacity, density and placing all the homes for affordable rent in one block. Berkeley Homes had hoped to build 1,306 homes to the south and east of the development, on […]
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Woolwich’s Royal Arsenal and Kidbrooke Village up for transport award
The Royal Arsenal in Woolwich and the redevelopment of the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke have both been nominated for an award honouring housing schemes designed so residents do not need cars. Royal Arsenal Riverside and Kidbrooke Village, both built by Berkeley Homes, are in line for the first Transport for New Homes Award, set up […]
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Kidbrooke Station Square: Sadiq Khan overrules Greenwich Council on 619 homes
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has rejected Greenwich Council’s refusal of plans for 619 new homes next to Kidbrooke station on land owned by Transport for London, which the mayor chairs. TfL and the housing association Notting Hill Genesis want to build on land next to the station as part of a capital-wide scheme […]
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Greenwich Council poised to approve 20-storey Kidbrooke development
A huge development of 619 new homes on land next to Kidbrooke station is set to be signed off despite conflicting with a council masterplan. Transport for London has partnered up with the housing association Notting Hill Genesis under the Kidbrooke Partnership for the major regeneration project, dubbed Kidbrooke Station Square. The developers propose 619 homes in […]
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