Buskers will need to get a licence to perform in Greenwich and Woolwich town centres under plans set for approval by senior councillors on Wednesday. Greenwich Council says it needs to regulate street performers in the two areas after regular complaints about noise and obstruction. Musicians will be restricted to two locations in each town […]
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News about Woolwich, London SE18, from The Greenwich Wire.
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‘Stunning’ £31m Woolwich Works will celebrate town, boss says as opening date confirmed
The boss of Woolwich’s £31 million cultural district has said he wants to celebrate the local community as the much-delayed arts hub finally confirmed its opening date. Woolwich Works will open its doors on Thursday 23 September, after lengthy delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which held up building work and has wrecked the performing […]
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Macbean Street: Greenwich councillors throw out plans for 595 rented flats in Woolwich
Greenwich councillors unanimously threw out plans for 595 flats on a derelict site in Woolwich town centre last night – condemning it as too high, too dense, and with not enough “affordable” housing. All seven members of Greenwich’s planning board rejected Legal & General’s proposals to build build five blocks of up to 22 storeys […]
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Glyndon by-election: ‘Anti-sleaze’ Starmer visits ward where Labour councillor was convicted of fraud
Sir Keir Starmer pledged to help clean up British politics hours before campaigning in a by-election caused by the resignation of a Labour councillor convicted of housing fraud, it has emerged. The Labour leader visited the Polthorne estate in Plumstead with London mayor Sadiq Khan on Monday, pressing voters to endorse Labour in tomorrow’s Glyndon […]
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Macbean Street: Greenwich Council officers recommend backing 595 Woolwich flats with no social housing
Greenwich Council planning officers are recommending councillors back a giant 595-home scheme which could change the face of part of Woolwich town centre – even though it contains no social housing. Legal & General wants to build five blocks of up to 22 storeys with new shops, a market pound for Beresford Square and a […]
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Greenwich Council to spend £165,000 moving summer festival from Woolwich to Charlton
Greenwich Council’s annual Get Together festival is to move from Woolwich to Charlton Park and be given a new look and name, tender documents issued to potential event producers reveal. Held to coincide with Armed Forces Day for the past decade, the event began life at Barrack Field on Woolwich Common, as a merger of […]
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Greenwich’s Up The Creek gets £177,000 to help it bounce back from pandemic
Greenwich’s Up The Creek comedy club is among the south-east London organisations to get emergency funding from the government in the latest round of grants designed to help arts groups get through the pandemic. The Creek Road venue, a Greenwich town centre institution for 30 years, has been given £177,250 from the Culture Recovery Fund, […]
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Take a step into the future: Support proposals for a Thames Barrier Bridge
Twenty years ago, the Golden Jubilee Bridge helped transform the South Bank. Now the team who came up with that idea want to do the same for Charlton and Woolwich, connecting them with communities and transport links north of the Thames. ALEX LIFSCHUTZ of the architecture firm Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands explains why you should support […]
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