A cinema chain targeted by a union over its refusal to pay the London Living Wage has been picked to operate a cinema in the Greenwich Council-backed Spray Street development in Woolwich town centre. Picturehouse Cinemas, part of the giant Cineworld group, will operate a five-screen venue if the scheme, which has been delayed because […]
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News about Woolwich, London SE18, from The Greenwich Wire.
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Woolwich Tesco and Charlton Riverside planning inquiries get under way
Two public inquiries started this morning which could have a big impact on the future of some of Greenwich borough’s biggest development schemes. A seven-day hearing into Greenwich Council’s refusal of plans to build a 27-storey tower in front of Tesco in Woolwich began earlier at Woolwich Town Hall; while a 12-day hearing into London […]
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NHS winter crisis bites early after black alerts at Queen Elizabeth and Lewisham hospitals
Health bosses have moved to reassure patients after both Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Lewisham Hospital reached full capacity this week, triggering a “black alert”. Black alerts are issued when a hospital is “unable to deliver comprehensive emergency care”, according to the NHS’s official definition. It usually means the ambulance service is asked to take patients […]
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Sadiq Khan admits £20m Woolwich Ferry vessels ‘aren’t good enough’
London mayor Sadiq Khan has admitted that the new £20 million boats brought in to run the Woolwich Ferry, which have been plagued by technical faults, are “not good enough”. The ferry service has been plagued by delays and strikes since the new vessels, Ben Woollacott and Dame Vera Lynn, came into service at the […]
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Woolwich’s Royal Arsenal and Kidbrooke Village up for transport award
The Royal Arsenal in Woolwich and the redevelopment of the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke have both been nominated for an award honouring housing schemes designed so residents do not need cars. Royal Arsenal Riverside and Kidbrooke Village, both built by Berkeley Homes, are in line for the first Transport for New Homes Award, set up […]
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Councillors reluctantly rubber-stamp Woolwich Island Site development
Greenwich councillors reluctantly backed a changes to a major new development in Woolwich that would give it just four more homes for social rent at a meeting last week. The Island Site development in Woolwich, of 298 flats, shops and a dance school, had already been approved by councillors in 2017 – despite just 18 […]
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Woolwich covered market to stay as Spray Street developers review plans
The developers behind controversial plans to develop a chunk of Woolwich town centre have confirmed they will be keeping the old covered market when they submit new proposals for the area. St Modwen and the housing association Notting Hill Genesis had planned to demolish the former Woolwich Public Market in their plans to build 742 […]
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City Hall acts: Woolwich Island Site to gain just four more flats for social rent
A major development in Woolwich which was criticised by the local MP for a lack of social housing is to gain just four more units for social rent after City Hall intervened in the scheme. The project at the Island Site – the cluster of former Thames Polytechnic buildings on Wellington Street and Thomas Street […]
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