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are on their way, the non-league football club has said just days after proposals for more than a hundred homes were withdrawn.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Plans for 104 flats at Welling United’s ground withdrawn by developer
Plans to build more than a hundred flats at Welling United’s football ground have been withdrawn, six months after they were submitted to Bexley Council.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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Flats near Oxleas Woods approved despite ‘turquoise monstrosity’ criticism
Plans for discounted-rent flats close to Oxleas Woods were approved at the second time of asking after the developer lopped two storeys off the proposed building. Meridian Home Start was given the go-ahead for 63 flats at Shepherds Leas, on the borough border at Falconwood. All homes would be offered at 65 per cent of […]
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Woolwich’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital gains a new night bus from tonight
North Greenwich station, Charlton and Queen Elizabeth Hospital will be linked by bus 24 hours a day, seven days a week from tonight, with all-night buses being introduced on route 486. Buses will now run between Bexleyheath town centre and North Greenwich seven nights a week, providing the hospital on Woolwich Common with its first […]
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More than 100 flats planned alongside rebuilt Welling United ground
More than 100 flats could be built on part of Welling United’s ground as part of plans for a new stadium for the non-league football club. The club admits that its Park View Road ground, which has hosted football for a century, is “not fit for purpose”, with one of its terraces closed and its […]
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Publicise car parking consultations better, Greenwich Council told
Greenwich Council should improve the way it consults residents on parking changes, including reviewing how it uses the local media to advertise schemes, a councillor said last night as an attempt to halt charges for parking near Oxleas Wood failed. Drivers who park near Falconwood station, in Rochester Way and Welling Way, are set to […]
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Parking war looms as Bexley objects to charging Oxleas Woods drivers
Another battle over parking is likely to break out between Greenwich and Bexley councils over plans to charge drivers for leaving their cars on main roads near Oxleas Woods. Greenwich’s deputy leader Averil Lekau approved the plans to introduce payment parking on parts of Rochester Way and Welling Way, Eltham, on the last day before […]
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