A cinema chain targeted by a union over its refusal to pay the London Living Wage has been picked to operate a cinema in the Greenwich Council-backed Spray Street development in Woolwich town centre. Picturehouse Cinemas, part of the giant Cineworld group, will operate a five-screen venue if the scheme, which has been delayed because […]
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‘We’re fed up’: The Woolwich traders blighted by Spray Street demolition scheme
The multi-billion pound Spray Street redevelopment scheme Woolwich, promoted by Greenwich Council, has kept long-standing and family business owners up at night fearing for their future. Local Democracy Reporter TOM BULL spoke to some of them. Traders in and around Spray Street have faced five years of uncertainty over controversial plans to bulldoze the covered […]
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Spray Street demolitions: We’ll look again at effect on BME community, council leader says
Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe says the authority will look again at how Woolwich’s controversial Spray Street redevelopment scheme will affect black and minority ethnic communities. Developers St Modwen and Notting Hill Housing plan to knock down shops as well as the old covered market, replacing them with 742 new homes, shops, offices, a cinema […]
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Spray Street demolitions: Woolwich campaigners confirm new public meeting
Local pressure group Speak Out Woolwich is to hold a public meeting on Monday 30 July to discuss controversial plans to demolish Woolwich’s covered market and the buildings around it, displacing scores of small businesses. Developers plan to knock down shops – mainly businesses run by and for black and ethnic minority communities – and […]
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Spray Street demolitions: England’s World Cup success halts Woolwich public meeting
The England football team’s World Cup success mean local pressure group Speak Out Woolwich has cancelled holding a public meeting on Wednesday about the controversial Spray Street development. Developers plan to knock down shops – mainly businesses run by and for black and ethnic minority communities – and the old Woolwich Public Market and replace them […]
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Spray Street demolitions: Heritage body fights to save Woolwich Public Market
A heritage body is battling to save Woolwich Public Market, which is under threat from a Greenwich Council-backed redevelopment scheme along with scores of small businesses. The 20th Century Society says the covered market building, which opened in 1936, is unique because of its German design, which was more commonly found in military buildings. It […]
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Spray Street demolition scheme: Woolwich residents plan meeting
A Woolwich residents’ pressure group is holding a meeting this Wednesday to discuss plans to knock down the block of buildings around Spray Street to replace them with 742 new homes, shops, offices, a cinema and a new public square. Earlier plans for the council-backed Spray Street Quarter had seen some of the older buildings […]
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