A developer hopes to build new homes around Plumstead’s Who’d A Thought It but retain the historic pub, according to documents submitted to Greenwich Council. The building would be reduced in size with four houses built around it, including on the beer garden. Two of the houses would be split into two flats, making six […]
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News stories about Plumstead, London SE18 from The Greenwich Wire.
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Plumstead’s new post office gets grand opening and longer hours
A new post office in Plumstead has been given a grand opening after a new postmaster took on an empty store. The new premises at 7 Brewery Road will be run by Nirpesh Maharjan, who used to work in the nearby Plumstead High Street branch. It is the first shop for Nirpesh and his wife […]
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Thamesmead’s £23 million bus transit will not arrive until 2029, TfL reveals
A planned transit bus system for Thamesmead is not expected to be completed until 2029, it has emerged, a day after Transport for London announced plans for a new Superloop bus through the area. The government awarded £23 million to TfL in 2023 to develop the system between Woolwich, Thamesmead and Abbey Wood, similar to […]
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Greenwich Council paying £11m to finish new homes after builder’s collapse
Greenwich Council is to pay an extra £11 million to finish a number of its home-building projects after a sub-contractor went bust earlier this year. A controversial plan for 24 council flats in Plumstead – one likened to a “ghetto” by its local councillor – also appears to have been shelved to free up the […]
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Greenwich Council asks residents if they would help clean streets
Greenwich borough residents are being asked if they would volunteer to help clean their street as part of a consultation into cuts to the service. Earlier this year, the cash-strapped council said it wanted to cut 22 jobs and save £1.2 million by cutting street cleaning to as little as once a month in some […]
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Labour’s Raja Zeeshan wins Shooters Hill by-election
Labour has convincingly won the Shooters Hill by-election, with Raja Zeeshan becoming the area’s new councillor. The election was called after Danny Thorpe, a former leader of Greenwich Council, stood down six weeks ago after 22 years at the town hall. Thorpe led the council for four years until May 2022. Zeeshan, a legal consultant […]
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Plumstead primary school earmarked for closure over falling numbers
A consultation is set to begin on closing a primary school in Plumstead after a dramatic fall in the number of pupils. Gallions Mount school, in Purrett Road, has gone from having 295 primary-aged children in January 2021 to 228 this January. Greenwich Council said its monitoring had found that numbers had fallen even further […]
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Greenwich Council is sitting on £55 million of money from developers
Greenwich Council is sitting on a £55 million pile of cash from developers – the fourth highest total in London. Research by the National Housebuilders’ Federation (NHF) found that Greenwich was in the top 20 councils nationally that had millions of pounds in unspent money from developers. On average, each council in England and Wales […]
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