Neither Greenwich nor Lewisham councils will be offering Zipcar free permits to help keep the car-sharing business in London – despite a call from neighbouring Southwark for other boroughs to help out. The American-owned company, which has about 550,000 customers in London, stopped accepting bookings in the capital on New Year’s Day as it consults […]
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Greenwich Council would back a tourist tax to fund local services
Greenwich Council says it would support a charge on hotel and Airbnb stays to help fund services in the borough. Councillors in two other London boroughs, Brent and Southwark, have recently passed motions backing the idea. Brent contains Wembley Stadium, the area around which has been redeveloped in recent years with a number of major […]
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Surrey Quays shopping centre to get 2,000-capacity jazz music venue
A new 2,000 capacity music venue has been given permission to open in the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre for five years. Corner Corner will be based in the former branch of The Range in the 1980s shopping centre, which is set to eventually be demolished as part of larger plans to redevelop the area near […]
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Bakerloo line to Lewisham inches forward with protection order
Plans for a Bakerloo line extension to Lewisham have been given a boost after the government agreed to begin the process of protecting the route from development. Transport secretary Grant Shapps plans to “safeguard” the route from Lambeth North to Lewisham, including a new Elephant & Castle station, two stations on the Old Kent Road, […]
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Bakerloo Line: Stop playing games with TfL funding, Lewisham mayor tells government
Lewisham’s elected mayor and the leader of Southwark Council have accused the government of “game-playing” over Transport for London’s finances after it emerged that TfL did not prioritise the Bakerloo line extension when asking for Whitehall funding this week. TfL is proposing to extend the Bakerloo line from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham via two new stops on the Old Kent […]
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We still don’t want Bakerloo Line extension to Hayes, Bromley Council leader insists
The Conservative leader of Bromley Council has doubled down on his authority’s opposition to a potential extension of the Bakerloo Line to Hayes, saying Bromley town centre needs additional transport capacity instead. Colin Smith’s comments came after Labour councillors asked if he had ignored feedback from local residents who supported an extension of the line. […]
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Greenwich Labour councillors criticise Sadiq Khan over ‘contradictory’ bus cuts
Greenwich Labour councillors criticised their own London mayor last night over cuts to south-east London’s bus services – with a senior councillor admitting getting into “a bit of trouble” for campaigning against the shortening of the key 53 routes. Transport cabinet member Denise Scott-McDonald said that the mayor’s office objected to Greenwich launching a joint […]
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Two more neighbouring boroughs declare climate emergencies after Greenwich’s refusal
Two more of Greenwich’s neighbouring boroughs have declared climate emergencies, weeks after it rejected a call to do so because it said it was already doing enough to deal with climate change. Tower Hamlets and Newham, both Labour-run councils, both joined Lewisham in pledging to make their boroughs carbon neutral by 2030. Lewisham made the […]
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