Tickets for the first event at Woolwich’s new £31m creative hub are set to go sale next week – with its boss promising that it will be a worthy investment that will “smash everybody’s expectations”. Woolwich Works will open its doors on Thursday 23 September – a year after it was originally planned to open. […]
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Woolwich’s Booker Prize winner Bernadine Evaristo set for freedom of Greenwich
Booker Prize winning author Bernadine Evaristo is to be given the freedom of Greenwich borough, councillors are set to confirm next week. Next Wednesday’s full council meeting is due to approve conferring the honour on the writer, who was brought up in Woolwich and went to Eltham Hill girls’ school before studying at Rose Bruford […]
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Charlton Athletic’s The Valley to become mass vaccination centre this Saturday
Charlton Athletic’s stadium will become a mass vaccination centre for one day on Saturday – with all Greenwich borough residents who have not yet had a jab invited to the drop-in session. The first 1,000 people at The Valley between 8am and 8pm will get a free ticket for a future Charlton match, with other […]
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Walk-in Covid vaccinations come to Woolwich, Plumstead and Thamesmead
Walk-in clinics for coronavirus vaccinations are opening up in Woolwich, Plumstead and Thamesmead, as healthcare officials launch a new push to get people inoculated before all restrictions end. One pharmacy in Woolwich is running walk-in clinics every day until the end of July, while pop-up clinics are opening in Plumstead and Thamesmead. Greenwich Council teams […]
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Twelve storeys lopped off Woolwich’s controversial Tesco tower plan
The developers behind Woolwich’s rejected Tesco tower have come back with new plans – lopping 12 storeys off the building to propose a 15-storey block facing General Gordon Square. Meyer Homes is also planning seven further blocks behind the store, facing the South Circular Road, of between 11 and 16 storeys, as it attempts to […]
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Woolwich Exchange approved as councillors voice reservations about 801-home scheme
Greenwich councillors swallowed their doubts to back plans for 801 homes, shops and a new cinema in the heart of Woolwich on Tuesday night after a last-minute plea for support from town hall leader Danny Thorpe. The controversial Woolwich Exchange project will see scores of small businesses moved or closed and buildings on Plumstead Road […]
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Woolwich Exchange: Greenwich councillors advised to back 801-home Spray Street scheme
Plans for 801 homes, shops and a new cinema at Spray Street in Woolwich have been recommended for approval by Greenwich Council officers – even though the levels of “affordable” housing fall way below council policy. The £400m Woolwich Exchange scheme includes retaining the roof of Woolwich Public Market, which was given a Grade II […]
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One of world’s biggest co-living schemes proposed for Woolwich’s Island Site
A giant co-living space – one of the world’s biggest – could come to Woolwich as part of a reworking of a controversial development in one of the town centre’s most prominent locations. Developers have written to the town hall asking for an early opinion on the environmental impact on building 660 co-living rooms at […]
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