Greenwich Council’s former leader Denise Hyland is to be asked to appear before a scrutiny panel to discuss the controversial conversion of a public toilet in Plumstead into a café. The Slade café opened in October 2018 after the council spent more than half a million pounds refurbishing the former conveniences opposite Plumstead Common. While […]
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Eltham MP Efford piles into £600,000 Plumstead Slade toilet cafe row
Eltham MP Clive Efford has piled into the controversy over the £600,000 conversion of a public toilet in Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe’s ward after confusion at the council’s press office led to 853 publishing an inaccurate story about extra work having to be done. The website ran a story last week about £44,000 being […]
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Cheap start-up rent for operator of £600,000 Plumstead Slade toilet cafe
The operator of a new cafe in Plumstead which Greenwich Council is spending over £600,000 converting from a public toilet will get a discounted rent for the first five years, papers released on Friday evening reveal. Plans to convert the closed convieniences at The Slade, near Plumstead Common, caused uproar among backbench Labour councillors last […]
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Storm in a toilet bowl: Councillors row over £600,000 Plumstead café plan
853 exclusive: A row has blown up inside Greenwich Council’s ruling Labour party after the borough’s deputy leader appeared to sign off over £600,000 in funding to convert a disused toilet in his ward into a café and community facility. Councillors received an email last month telling them that Danny Thorpe had approved the £580,000 […]
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