Just 18 months after scrapping the west Greenwich low-traffic neighbourhood, Greenwich Council is proposing bringing it back – but this time as part of measures to cut through traffic on both sides of Greenwich Park. A consultation opened on Monday evening, but went largely unnoticed on social media with the council preferring to use the […]
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Smell of mould on Greenwich Council estate ‘takes your breath away’
A woman living with a kitchen that was damaged after a leak says residents in her Greenwich Council estate have been waiting up to ten years for repairs to homes that reek of mould. Sarah Saitch moved into Ellison House on the Orchard Estate with her husband 14 years ago. She says that for the […]
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New Greenwich traffic plans due in September – but councillors hostile to LTN return
Plans for a new scheme to deal with traffic in back streets in west Greenwich will be revealed this September, officials revealed last night – but two of the borough’s new councillors said they would not want to see a return to the low-traffic neighbourhood that was scrapped earlier this year. Locals in Crooms Hill […]
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Meridian House: Greenwich’s old town hall could be turned into 73 flats
One of Greenwich town centre’s best-known buildings could be converted into 73 flats if its owners win approval from councillors. Meridian House on Royal Hill, which served as Greenwich’s town hall until the 1960s, was the base of Greenwich School of Management until it went bust in 2019. Now the Grade II-listed Art Deco building […]
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Levelling down: Route 53 to be cut back to Elephant under TfL bus cuts
Government cuts mean bus route 53 is set to be cut back again so it no longer runs beyond Elephant & Castle, Transport for London has announced today. The one-time trunk route from Plumstead, Woolwich, Charlton, Blackheath, west Greenwich and Deptford is one of a number of victims of a swathe of cuts which are […]
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Council ‘neglect’ panned as charity puts Greenwich’s Borough Hall on ‘at-risk’ list
Greenwich Council’s treatment of the historic Borough Hall has been criticised after a theatre charity put the building on its “at risk” register. The Grade II listed building on Royal Hill, which opened in 1939 as part of the old Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich’s town hall, was put up for sale in 2020 after plans […]
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‘Scary’ pollution fears over homes on filled-in Greenwich Park railway line dismissed
Plans to build homes for adults with learning difficulties on the site of a former railway line moved a step forward last night after Greenwich councillors approved plans to deal with pollution on the site. Neighbours of the site in Royal Hill have contested Greenwich Council’s plans to build a house for four adults and […]
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Boris Johnson wrong to demand we ‘crack on’ with low-traffic zones, Greenwich transport boss says
Greenwich Council’s new cabinet member for transport says that she disagrees with Boris Johnson’s support for “cracking on” with low-traffic neighbourhoods. Sarah Merrill spoke out after the borough’s opposition Conservative councillors announced they were holding a public meeting about the road schemes, which seek to cut rat-running in residential roads and to make it easier […]
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