Greenwich councillors have been told they can’t visit an estate where 80 new council homes are planned, even though they had deferred the decision to take a look at the site themselves. Plans for a site visit to the Brook Estate, on the Kidbrooke/Eltham border, have been scrapped because of England’s third coronavirus lockdown, according […]
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Victorian terrace to go as Greenwich councillors back 34 new homes in Woolwich
A controversial development of 34 homes in Woolwich was narrowly passed by Greenwich councillors last night – despite the borough’s chair of planning questioning whether local people could afford to live in them. Four terraced houses on Sandy Hill Road and an old petrol station will be demolished as part of the scheme from Charlton-based […]
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Greenwich Labour councillors have public row during planning meeting
Tensions in Greenwich Council’s Labour group boiled over in public last night when two councillors rowed during a normally quiet planning meeting. Councillors on the Greenwich area planning committee were deciding on an application to put lights on the roof of a house in Blackheath when the chair of planning, Peninsula councillor Stephen Brain, shook […]
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‘This isn’t ghettoisation’: Planning chair’s U-turn as revamped Kidbrooke Village scheme passes
Altered plans for the next phase of the Kidbrooke Village development were passed by Greenwich councillors last night – with the chair of planning taking back his comments made three months ago that the scheme represented “backdoor ghettoisation”. Proposals to build 1,306 homes to the south and east of the development, on land formerly occupied […]
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Councillors criticise new homes’ design as 20 Greenwich Council flats approved
Greenwich councillors backed plans for new council homes in Eltham last night, but with both Labour and Conservative members criticising the design of their council’s own new block. The borough’s planning board endorsed proposals for 20 flats on the site of garages on Well Hall Road. But councillors said they were unhappy because of the […]
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‘Backdoor ghettoisation’: Next phase of Kidbrooke Village thrown out by Greenwich councillors
Greenwich councillors have thrown out revised plans for the next phase of the Kidbrooke Village development after voicing worries about the lack of local transport capacity, density and placing all the homes for affordable rent in one block. Berkeley Homes had hoped to build 1,306 homes to the south and east of the development, on […]
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Silvertown Tunnel councillor out in shake-up of Greenwich Council’s cabinet
853 exclusive: The senior councillor in charge of Greenwich Council’s policy on the Silvertown Tunnel has lost her cabinet position in a wide-ranging shake-up of Danny Thorpe’s top team, 853 can reveal. Denise Scott-McDonald, the cabinet member for transport and air quality, is one of a number of names who will leave the council’s ruling […]
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Greenwich Millennium Village ‘development by stealth’ attacked by neighbours
Neighbours of Greenwich Millennium Village have hit out at what they dub “development by stealth” after councillors approved amendments to the next phase of the housing scheme on the Greenwich Peninsula. Plans to build on between Peartree Way and Bugsby’s Way have long been contentious, with a separate application to build a 13-storey block next […]
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