Residents on Greenwich Peninsula have won an 18-month battle to force Greenwich Council to release a document that influenced its decision to scrap all ‘affordable’ housing on a key development there. A tribunal has told the council it should release “viability assessments” which prompted it to cut a requirement for developer Knight Dragon to include […]
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Beer Box: Greenwich’s Peninsula Square finally springs into life
Seven years after the O2 opened, finally, finally, the miserable open space outside, Peninsula Square, has started to look like the “new leisure destination for Londoners and tourists alike” promised back then. New York band We Are Scientists opened up Meantime Brewery’s Beer Box with a blistering free live show last night. It looks like […]
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Greenwich’s Peninsula Square welcomes the World Cup
A year ago, I wrote how Peninsula Square, the open space between North Greenwich station and the Dome, planned as “a buzzing, exciting place to visit”, had become a sorely disappointing spot – simply nothing more than a glorified holding pen for O2 Arena customers. Twelve months on, and here was the scene as the […]
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North Greenwich travel meltdown – but there’s a cunning plan…
As you may have noticed, it was rather hard to get home to south-east London last night. A fire in signalling equipment at London Bridge saw all trains through the station cancelled at the beginning of the evening rush hour. The delays lasted beyond the rush hour and right to the end of the day. […]
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Social cleansing: End of the Greenwich Peninsula dream?
Imagine if your local council had begun the process of allowing a massive new development of luxury housing, exclusively for the affluent, towering over the skyline. Imagine if that development included its own private school, and a luxury hotel. And imagine if it’d decided to renege on its past plans to create mixed communities, where […]
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