A former health centre on Plumstead High Street that has been closed for many years could reopen as a pub. Antic, the company that formerly ran the Equitable in Woolwich, has applied for a licence to open up in the old Kinara Building, which was last used as a family centre in the mid-2000s. Greenwich […]
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‘You were warned’:Greenwich Council says it will now act to fix wall that collapsed by bus stop
Greenwich Council says it will work to ensure “long-term improvements” are made at a crumbling wall next to a bus stop which partially collapsed last week. The Greenwich Wire has seen complaints from residents going back more than two years about the wall opposite St Nicholas’ Gardens, on Plumstead High Street. While fencing was put […]
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Ice Cold in Alex on the bill as Charlton & Woolwich Free Film Festival returns
Classic war movie Ice Cold in Alex is among the highlights of this year’s Charlton & Woolwich Free Film Festival, which starts next month. The 1958 film, starring John Mills and Sylvia Syms, is set in the Western Desert campaign of World War II, and is best known for the legendary scene at the end […]
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Plumstead High Street’s flop £5m revamp branded a ‘missed opportunity’
A £5.2 million project to rejuvenate Plumstead High Street has been branded a “missed opportunity” by one of the area’s councillors. Greenwich Council said in 2019 that it would use the cash, including money from City Hall, to make the down-at-heel street “safer and more attractive”. The council is also spending spending millions on helping […]
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Tennis fans make racket over Greenwich Council plans to charge for courts
Tennis fans in Plumstead are challenging Greenwich Council’s plans to charge £3 to use their local courts – saying they were promised a consultation on the issue. Last month the council said it would be refurbishing some of its tennis courts with a £300,000 grant from the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA), but would be introducing […]
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Plans to knock down Plumstead’s historic Who’d A Thought It pub refused
Greenwich Council officers have thrown out plans to bulldoze a historic Plumstead pub and replace it with seven houses. A Clapton-based property company, Goldenspark (Timber) Ltd, had claimed the Who’d A Thought It on Timbercroft Lane was unviable. The Who’d A Thought It was historically known as one of the Five Idlers of Plumstead Common, […]
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Shaun Slator: Councillor who wrote Plumstead ‘prostitute’ tweet expelled by Tories
A Conservative councillor who suggested an alleged rape victim was likely to have been a sex worker has been thrown out of the party. Shaun Slator, who represents St Mary Cray ward on Bromley Council, was suspended from the party in January he replied to a tweet from a regional news outlet on New Year’s […]
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Historic Who’d A Thought It pub in Plumstead faces demolition in plan for new houses
An historic Plumstead pub with links to Arsenal football club could be demolished and replaced with seven houses if developers have their way. The Who’d A Thought It, which dates back to the 1840s, “has been commercially unviable for a number of years”, according to the Clapton-based property company Goldenspark (Timber) Ltd, which wants to […]
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