A group formed to press for improvements at the Greenwich and Woolwich foot tunnels plans to wind itself up because it has been unable to help solve continuing problems with the crossings. Fogwoft – the Friends of Greenwich and Woolwich Foot Tunnels – was formed in 2013 following a botched refurbishment of the two tunnels […]
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‘Greenwich’s threatened gasholder is a local icon – it deserves to be saved’
The owners of the historic East Greenwich gasholder announced before Christmas that it plans to demolish the 130-year-old structure. It has asked Greenwich Council if it needs to apply for planning permission to take the structure down (search here for 17/4068/D1 to see details and formally comment). Industrial historian and former local councillor MARY MILLS […]
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Popular councillor Mary Mills out in election sensation
Peninsula ward councillor Mary Mills has been deselected by her local Labour party this evening, as the battles within Greenwich Council’s ruling party to stand in next year’s poll get ever more vicious. One of the very few Greenwich backbench councillors with a profile beyond her local party, she has served the area on the […]
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Is the tide turning? Progress on Greenwich’s Thames Path
One of the first big barneys on this site was over the closure – well, destruction – of the Thames Path at Lovell’s Wharf in Greenwich, and the council’s subsequent grovelling to developers after that. Of course, the developers then downed tools after finishing the first phase, leaving a flooded hole in the ground where […]
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Council defied Greenwich Labour party over Run to the Beat
Greenwich Council ignored the members of its own governing party to give half-marathon Run To The Beat the go-ahead, it has emerged. The race – branded “an imposition” by one councillor – will take place for the fifth year running on 28 October, closing roads and forcing diversions to bus services in Greenwich, Blackheath, Charlton […]
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