Greenwich Council should offer free school meals to all children to help improve the lives of migrants and refugees, a charity which deals with refugees in the borough has told councillors. The Lewisham Refugee and Migrant Network, which runs the Migrant Hub at Woolwich Common Community Centre, which is partially funded by the council among […]
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Lewisham residents pay the most in London for garden waste collection
Updated story: Lewisham borough residents pay the most of any London borough to have their garden waste taken away – while their neighbours in Greenwich pay nothing for the service, research released today reveals. Householders in Lewisham who want the council to take leaves, grass cuttings, weeds and other garden waste have to pay £80 […]
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Polluters to cough up as Lewisham Council introduces £60 idling fines
Drivers who leave their vehicles idling for more than three minutes in the borough of Lewisham are to be stung with a £60 fine, a move which councillors hope will improve air quality. Lewisham Council’s cabinet gave the green light to the new fine at a meeting last week, which will be enforced by December […]
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Greenwich Council concerned over City Airport’s plan for more weekend flights
Greenwich Council has expressed its concern over London City Airport’s plans to scrap curbs on weekend flights. The Royal Docks airport wants to be allowed to handle an extra 40,000 flights per year on top of its current limit of 111,000, a figure it says it will reach in 2022. At present, no flights are […]
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Lewisham Council ‘first to allow residents to decide on spending developers’ cash’
Lewisham Council says it is the first in the country to allow residents a say in how cash from developers is spent – and to focus spending on deprived parts of the borough. Councillors last week approved its new neighbourhood community infrastructure levy scheme, which will see money raised from developers spent on projects chosen […]
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International Academy of Greenwich: Council planners recommend refusing new school
A free school should not be allowed to move to a sports ground in Lee, Greenwich Council planning officers have recommended ahead of a hearing next week. The International Academy of Greenwich wants to build a 765-pupil school on the Bowring Sports Ground, off Eltham Road. The free school, which opened in 2016, is currently […]
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Beckenham Place Park: SE London’s new wild swimming lake revealed
SE Londoners will be able to enjoy the £6.8 million regeneration of the area’s largest park from next weekend – including a much-anticipated new lake for wild swimming. Lewisham Council is putting the final touches to Beckenham Place Park ahead of a launch event on Saturday, with the restored Georgian lake the centrepiece of the three-and-a-half-year project. The […]
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TfL drops Bakerloo objection to 35-storey Lewisham student tower
Transport for London has dropped its main objection to a 35-storey tower block next to Lewisham station after fears it would interfere with plans for the Bakerloo Line extension. Approval has already been granted for a scheme to build blocks of 16 and 30 storeys on the site of the former Carpetright store on Loampit […]
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