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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Greenwich’s Olympic equestrian centre has closed and could be sold off
A Greenwich Council-owned equestrian centre built in the wake of the London Olympics has been closed and could be sold after the college involved pulled out of the project. The Greenwich Equestrian Centre opened in Shooters Hill in 2013, offering training in equestrian skills run by Hadlow College. It also offered riding lessons to local […]
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Plans for flats at Welling United’s ground are still on, club says
New plans for flats at Welling United’s stadium are on their way, the non-league football club has said just days after proposals for more than a hundred homes were withdrawn. The club has teamed up with the Charlton-based developer Lita Homes to redevelop the Park View Road ground, which has hosted football since the 1920. […]
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Plans for 104 flats at Welling United’s ground withdrawn by developer
Plans to build more than a hundred flats at Welling United’s football ground have been withdrawn, six months after they were submitted to Bexley Council. Lita Homes, a Charlton-based developer, had wanted to rebuild the non-league side’s Park View Road stadium to include 104 flats in an eight-storey block facing the main road. Most of […]
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