The charity running Woolwich’s new creative district has been given nearly £1 million in emergency funding from the government after its plans to open this year were ripped up by the coronavirus pandemic. Woolwich Works had been due to open this autumn, providing a home for the immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, the National Youth Jazz […]
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News about Woolwich, London SE18, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Get your mopeds out of Greenwich’s new cycleway, Papa John’s warned
A pizza takeaway in east Greenwich has been warned to get its mopeds out of a new segregated cycle lane after months of complaints about its delivery riders blocking the road. The route of Cycleway 4 passes Papa John’s on Woolwich Road, which had already become notorious for delivery riders blocking the path of cyclists […]
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Woolwich town centre to get £3.8m to smarten up its shopping streets
Woolwich’s tatty town centre is to see £3.8m spent on restoring it to its former glory with funds coming from Greenwich Council and a grant from Historic England. Councillors on the borough’s cabinet, the town hall’s main decision-making body, will approve spending £2.04m next week to top up the £1.76m High Streets Heritage Action Zones […]
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TfL to ask government for £800m for Thamesmead DLR – but Bakerloo extension goes on back burner
Transport for London is asking the government for £800m to build a Docklands Light Railway route to Thamesmead – but the Bakerloo Line extension to Lewisham appears to have been deferred. London mayor Sadiq Khan announced plans to run the DLR to Thamesmead four years ago when approving the Silvertown Tunnel, but no funding has […]
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‘I was going mad without it’: Men in Sheds returns to combat boredom
The Eltham-based Men In Sheds scheme has been a lifeline for older men – but its activities were brought to a halt by the pandemic. NIKKI SPENCER finds out more about its reopening, and how women are joining in too. It’s a hive of activity on a Wednesday morning in the large, well-equipped workshop in […]
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TfL refused to pay for ‘paint on road’ cycle route on Plumstead High Street
Greenwich Council’s plans for a major new cycle route included a stretch that was little more than paint on a main road – despite long-established guidance calling for riders to be given segregated routes instead. The plans for a route from Woolwich to Abbey Wood called for cyclists to mix with lorries and buses on […]
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Singing together, but apart: Lewisham and Greenwich’s NHS choir stay positive
With a stethoscope around his neck and a mask dangling from his ear, nurse Graeme Tyler is singing in a room full of rainbows. He had just finished his shift at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, and against the backdrop of colourful drawings in children’s A&E, Graeme recorded this scene for Lewisham & Greenwich NHS […]
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£31m Woolwich Works opening pushed back to spring as jazz orchestra signs up
Woolwich’s £31m arts centre will now open next spring following delays caused by the coronavirus, it was confirmed this morning – and will have the National Youth Jazz Orchestra as a tenant. The orchestra joins immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, the Chineke! orchestra, dance company Protein and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in Woolwich Works, which […]
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