Greenwich councillors have voted to sell car parking spaces on three estates in the borough to a private developer, promising to invest the proceeds in new council housing. The plots of land, in Charlton, Kidbrooke, and on the Lewisham border, will be sold to developer Pocket Living, subject to consultation with council tenants who live […]
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£1m Greenwich Council land settlement for Kidbrooke school is ‘an investment’, leader says
Greenwich Council leader Denise Hyland has called a £1m settlement on a land dispute at a Kidbrooke academy an “investment” in the school’s future. The council is paying £1m to settle an issue dating back to when the former Kidbrooke School became Corelli Academy, “London’s first co-operative academy”, in 2011. However, the school has now […]
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Shooters Hill Shot gets green light as Ford starts Chariot bus to North Greenwich
Car giant Ford has started running its rush-hour commuter service linking Shooters Hill and Kidbrooke with North Greenwich station after being given the green light by transport bosses. The Shooters Hill Shot will see 14-seater shuttle buses run to and from the Jubilee Line station each rush hour from areas that are currently poorly-served by […]
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Shooters Hill Shot: Ford plans commuter Chariot service to North Greenwich
Car giant Ford is planning to launch an on-demand rush-hour commuter service linking Shooters Hill and Kidbrooke with North Greenwich station in January. The firm’s Chariot offshoot, which runs bus-like minivans in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle and Austin, Texas, is proposing to launch in London, its first non-US city, next year, with six […]
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Greenwich Council silent as Corbyn attacks estate ‘regeneration’ policies
Greenwich Council is keeping quiet after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared to attack its policy of redeveloping housing estates at last week’s party conference in Brighton. Corbyn pledged that a future Labour government would ensure that residents affected by plans to rebuild estates “must get a home on the same site and the same terms […]
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Greenwich Council saves playing field from Greenwich Council
The election doesn’t stop Greenwich Time – it just removes councillors from its pages for a few weeks. But the weekly paper remains to subtly associate the council with Good Things in the area, and to drone on about “royal borough” this and “royal borough” that. This week’s Good Thing is the rescuing of Kidbrooke’s […]
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Lewisham bags a Bakerloo boost – but beware a backlash
It’s a relief to be able to write about some unalloyed good news – Transport for London is consulting on extending the Bakerloo Line to Lewisham, Catford and Hayes. Sure, the extension might be at least a decade and a half away, and plans for a Tube to Lewisham have been kicking around since the […]
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Return of the high-rises: Kidbrooke Village’s 31-storey tower
Thought demolishing the Ferrier Estate would rid Kidbrooke of tower blocks? Think again – these are the first images of the 31-storey tower planned as a new centrepiece for the Kidbrooke Village development, currently being built by Berkeley Homes. The plans for the third phase of the Kidbrooke Village development were revealed at an exhibition […]
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