Greenwich Council has shrugged off calls to clamp down on councillors taking jobs with planning consultancies because it has no power to stop them. This website revealed last week that Stephen Brain, the former planning chair who approved the controversial Morden Wharf development on his casting vote, had become a consultant for a company involved […]
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Greenwich planning chair who approved Morden Wharf joins firm working on project
853 exclusive: The Greenwich councillor who approved the controversial Morden Wharf development on his casting vote as chair of planning is now working as a consultant for a company involved in the project. Stephen Brain stood down as a councillor at May’s election, eight months after he broke a tied vote to allow the 36-storey, […]
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Send me abuse, planning chair tells critics as he backs first 1,200 Charlton Riverside homes
A plan to approve more than 1,200 homes by the Thames Barrier was approved by Greenwich Council last night on the casting vote of its controversial chair of planning, Stephen Brain. The Labour councillor, who is standing down after the elections in May, goaded objectors by inviting them to send abusive emails as he broke […]
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Greenwich’s planning chair Stephen Brain to quit council in May
Greenwich Council’s controversial chair of planning, Stephen Brain, will not be standing in the next council election, to be held in May, he confirmed tonight. Brain made the announcement during a planning meeting which saw the rejection of an additional floor on a converted nurses’ home overlooking east Greenwich, the area the Labour councillor has […]
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Greenwich councillors narrowly back 1,500 new homes at 36-storey Morden Wharf
A major development of up 36 storeys at Morden Wharf on the Greenwich Peninsula was approved last night on the chair’s casting vote after councillors on the borough’s planning board were split on the issue. Stephen Brain pushed through the development, which is in his ward, after Greenwich’s main planning committee voted 5-5 on the […]
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Greenwich planning chair clashes with residents in Charlton Riverside row
Greenwich’s chair of planning was ticked off by a former council leader on Tuesday night after he clashed with residents over what new buildings on the Charlton Riverside should look like. Labour councillor Stephen Brain challenged members of local lobby groups who are insisting that a masterplan drawn up to redevelop the area, involving building […]
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Councillors back 40 Eltham council homes – and call for next-door site to be bought for more
A new development of 40 council homes behind Eltham High Street was approved by Greenwich councillors last night – amid calls for the council to buy an adjacent derelict site to build more homes. The five-storey development replaces a recently-demolished block on Orangery Lane which was built as a depot for British Gas in the […]
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Build more family homes, Greenwich Labour councillors tell their own town hall
Labour councillors have pressed their own housing department to build more family homes while approving plans for 15 new council homes on a green in Plumstead. A five-storey block of 13 flats and two townhouses on Gilbourne Road, near Rockliffe Manor primary school, were given approval on Tuesday night. They form part of the Greenwich […]
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