Greenwich Council is consulting this weekend on plans to build 197 council homes in Kidbrooke – including on green space off Rochester Way and the old Thomas Tallis school site. The plans make up nearly a quarter of the council’s Greenwich Builds programme to start 750 new council homes by 2022. All homes will go […]
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115 Greenwich Council flats planned for old Thomas Tallis School site
Greenwich Council is to move forward with plans to build 115 homes on part of the former Thomas Tallis School site on Kidbrooke Park Road, according to a paper to be discussed bv senior councillors later this month. The site has long been earmarked for housing, but did not appear in two lists of sites […]
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You can’t walk your dogs on Kidbrooke playing field, Greenwich Council tells neighbours
Greenwich Council has told residents in Kidbrooke that they can’t walk their dogs on a playing field in Kidbrooke which has been leased to Blackheath rugby club – despite a Conservative councillor offering to clear up any mess left behind. Neighbours of the Hervey Road playing field are able to use the land when nobody […]
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Brook Estate residents angry at plans for 82 council homes on green space
Plans to build 82 new council homes and 70 car parking spaces on green space on the Kidbrooke-Eltham border have been criticised by neighbours who say they will lose their community if the proposals go ahead. Greenwich Council wants to build 51 houses and 31 flats, along with the parking spaces, on the Brook estate, […]
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Kidbrooke Station Square: Deputy mayor approves ‘irresponsible’ 619-home development
Plans for 619 new homes north of Kidbrooke station are to go ahead after London’s deputy mayor for planning, reversed Greenwich councillors’ rejection of the scheme. The Kidbrooke Station Square scheme, which is being promoted by Transport for London and the housing association Notting Hill Genesis, was thrown out by Greenwich Council’s main planning committee […]
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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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Nine-day closure planned for Eltham and Bexleyheath rail line to fix Barnehurst landslips
A key SE London rail line will be closed for nine days during February in an attempt to end landslips that have crippled services four times in the past decade. The Bexleyheath line will be closed between Blackheath and Dartford between 15 and 23 February so engineers can remove thousands of tonnes of soil and […]
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