Greenwich & Woolwich MP Matt Pennycook has criticised “reprehensible” proposals to make leaseholders pay to make the cladding on their homes safe, hours after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visited Thamesmead residents who fear bankruptcy. Pennycook spoke out in a Labour debate in the House of Commons on the crisis following the Grenfell Tower disaster, […]
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News about Woolwich, London SE18, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Can you help raise £10,000 to support staff at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich?
Greenwich Council and the Charlton Athletic Community Trust have launched an appeal for cash to support staff and patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich as they deal with the pressures of the coronavirus pandemic. The council and the trust recently launched Project Hope, a scheme where businesses and residents could donate goods and services […]
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Fast, free Covid-19 testing comes to Woolwich’s Waterfront centre
Greenwich borough residents who are not showing coronavirus symptoms can now book fast, free tests at the Waterfront Leisure Centre to see if they have Covid-19. The tests are being made available as part of a borough-wide community testing programme and are also on offer at locations in Greenwich, Charlton and Eltham. Results will be […]
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TfL’s 2021 fare rise: Bus fares up 5p, but tourists pay £5 to use cable car
Bus fares are rising 5p from March and tourists will have to pay £5 to use the Thames Cable Car as mayor Sadiq Khan hikes charges to pay for the coronavirus pandemic. After four years of a partial fare freeze, costs are going up by an average of 2.6% across the Transport for London network […]
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Victorian terrace to go as Greenwich councillors back 34 new homes in Woolwich
A controversial development of 34 homes in Woolwich was narrowly passed by Greenwich councillors last night – despite the borough’s chair of planning questioning whether local people could afford to live in them. Four terraced houses on Sandy Hill Road and an old petrol station will be demolished as part of the scheme from Charlton-based […]
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Greenwich Council planners back knocking down ‘heritage’ terrace in Woolwich
Greenwich Council planners have backed demolishing four terraced houses in Woolwich so 31 flats and three houses can be built in their place. The council’s former deputy leader, David Gardner, had criticised the plans last year when the developer, Lita Homes, had only planned to build 23 flats and three houses on the site. “I […]
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DLR to Thamesmead: Councils and developers stump up £1m to push project on
Councils and developers have paid £1m to fund further work on developing a DLR extension to Thamesmead, which TfL says could support up to 15,000 new homes in the area. Greenwich and Newham councils, together with Aberdeen Standard Investments, Peabody, Lendlease, Berkeley Homes and National Grid have stumped up the cash to help develop plans […]
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Woolwich’s WSUP has battled austerity – now it needs to survive coronavirus
They’ve suffered funding cuts, lost their home and been forced to limit their service. But the team behind Woolwich Service User Project — or WSUP — have kept going during the coronavirus crisis. Mark Osborn, one of its most dedicated volunteers, told SAM DAVIES how. When Mark Osborn first came to WSUP around 2013, it […]
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