Buses from Woolwich will still serve the Bluewater Shopping Centre and Darent Valley Hospital after a row between Transport for London and Reform-run Kent County Council was resolved. Two weeks ago The Greenwich Wire revealed that TfL was reviewing services on route 96 and two other buses because Kent wanted to impose a “significant increase” […]
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Go Ape will come to Danson Park after angry scenes at Bexley Council
Danson Park will get a Go Ape high ropes course after Bexley councillors approved plans to shouts and groans from the public gallery. Over 2,000 people had signed a petition while 650 people lodged objections to the plan to bring a woodland adventure park to the north and west of the open space, between Welling […]
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TfL could reduce buses to Bluewater because of Kent cash demands
Buses linking Woolwich and Bluewater are being reviewed by Transport for London after the Reform-run Kent County Council hiked charges to use an access road to reach the shopping centre. Councillors in Dartford have been told that TfL is considering reducing the number of its buses that run east of the town to Darent Valley […]
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Greenwich Council protests about latest cut to hospital bus services
A key bus route serving North Greenwich and Queen Elizabeth Hospital is being reduced in frequency by Transport for London – but the council says it was not consulted and has protested about the decision. The 486 service, which runs through Charlton, Woolwich Common and Shooters Hill to Bexleyheath, will be reduced from six buses […]
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Danson Park could Go Ape with zip wire course planned
Zip wires could be coming to Danson Park after the outdoor adventure company Go Ape applied for permission to build a high ropes course. Go Ape, which already operates courses at Alexandra Palace and Battersea Park, plans to install the course in woodland to the north and west of the park in Bexleyheath. A changing […]
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Cut to bus linking hospital with Greenwich’s LTN branded ‘unacceptable’
A bus running through Greenwich and Blackheath’s controversial low-traffic neighbourhood has been reduced in frequency – reducing access to the borough’s only general hospital. The 386 service between Blackheath Village and Woolwich, which serves Queen Elizabeth Hospital, has only run with three buses an hour rather than four since November 29 – the worst level […]
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Bid to halt sale of Greenwich’s Olympic equestrian centre thrown out
Plans to sell the Greenwich Equestrian Centre were given the green light by a panel of councillors on Wednesday after a challenge to the decision led to a party political row. Last month Greenwich Council’s cabinet approved a proposal to sell the centre on Shooters Hill, as well as a house next to the nearby […]
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Greenwich’s Olympic equestrian centre quietly put up for sale
Greenwich Council’s cabinet quietly voted to sell the borough’s equestrian centre on Tuesday evening – agreeing to dispose of it in less than a minute. The Greenwich Equestrian Centre on Shooters Hill closed earlier this year after North Kent College, which had been operating the facility, pulled out. The building has been boarded up since […]
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