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From 18 July, London’s only peninsula neighbourhood offers a packed programme of events for all, from Wild Swing mini golf and cinema under the stars to a free global music festival and a tasty mash-up of beats and eats. The riverside walkways will also be dressed in technicolour installations by Kitty Joseph. Take a walk on the peninsula side, and visit the website below for the full event listings.
Dates, times and prices vary www.greenwichpeninsula. co.uk/whats-on/peninsulasummer
If you like singing in the shower, then you’ll love sharing songs with the Kender Singers – a small group of like-minded music enthusiasts. The group sing two- and three-part songs from around the world, learning by ear, so you don’t have to read music (words and music also provided).
Join the Kender Singers at Deptford Lounge and experience the joy of singing together. There are no auditions so visit for a free taster session.
Tuesdays at 7:30pm (28 May, 4 June and more)
9 Giffin Street, Deptford SE8 4RJ deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/ event/kender-singers-acapella/
Youth Festival
Part of Summer in the Park produced by Arts Trust, the community gathering is a place where families can enjoy a plethora of activities, performances and workshops, designed to entertain, educate and inspire our youth. From interactive art installations to live music and dance performances, there’s something to captivate every member of the family.
Dates: Saturday 13 to Sunday 14 July 2024
Tickets: Free Greenwich Park, SE10 8QY www.artstrust.co.uk/events/greenwichpark-youth-festival
Have a giggle
Garry Essendine is a charismatic actor and playboy that everyone wants a piece of. His talent and magnetic personality have brought him success and fame, but as he prepares to embark on another world tour, Garry is struck by an identity crisis where his desire for fame crashes against his genuine personality.
Present Laughter is Noel Coward’s razor-sharp commentary on the ups and downs of celebrity brought into the modern age. Join Changeling Theatre in the grounds of Eltham Palace for this fast-paced satire about a fameobsessed world.
Date: Friday 5 July 2024, 7pm
Tickets: Adults, £25, 10-18, £15 Court Yard, Eltham, Greenwich, SE9 5NP www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/
Join Charlton House for an outdoor production of All’s Well That Ends Well, Shakespeare’s comedy with a twist –and swing music.
Bring your picnic, wine, sunnies, pac-amac and participatory spirit to make a fairytale wish.
The production, directed by Sioned Jones, will begin at 7pm. You can picnic before the show from 5:30pm, too.
Date: Friday 28 June 2024, 7pm
Tickets: Adult from £20, child from £14 Charlton House, Charlton Road, SE7 8RE www.greenwichheritage.org/events/ shakespeare-in-the-squares-alls-wellthat-ends-well
As the sun sets later, enjoy more of the summer feeling at Royal Arsenal Summer Lates – featuring a medley of munchies, music and merriment. On the first Saturday of each month until September, you’ll find live music, DJs, street food and drinks bars at the market, ready for you to enjoy from afternoon to evening.
Date: Saturday 6 July 2024, 12pm-7pm Tickets: Free Royal Arsenal, Artillery Square, No.1 Street, Woolwich, SE18 6NG www.enjoyroyalgreenwich.org.uk/ whats-on
Follow Nemo and Marlin on their epic journey across the ocean to be reunited. As father and son become separated, Marlin does all he can to find Nemo – meeting some interesting characters along the way.
Join Broadway Theatre as the children of Kilmorie show what can be done if we truly believe in ourselves and just how powerful friendship can be.
Dates: Tuesday 9 July to Wednesday 10 July 2024, Tickets: £6 Broadway Theatre, Rushey Green, Catford, SE6 4RU www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk/events/
The homelessness charity is calling for local people to support its community, charity shops and outreach services
Homelessness charity Emmaus Greenwich is seeking local volunteers to support its work, with a number of roles available.
Volunteers will take up positions covering retail, van driving, van crew, assisting in the kitchens and help providing outreach services.
Emmaus is looking for individuals with suitable skills and experience, as well as a commitment to volunteer each week.
Kait Fernandes volunteers to help prepare meals for people who visit the charity’s Street Souls solidarity points, which are located in Woolwich and Westminster in the city.
Kait said: “I enjoy meeting new people from different parts of society and different backgrounds.
There’s so much banter when we’re cooking, there’s companionship. The goal is to prepare a nice meal that makes everyone happy. Everyone tries to work towards that goal. It’s very satisfying, fulfilling and enriching for me.”
In addition to outreach, Emmaus Greenwich provides a stable home, support and work opportunities for formerly homeless people.
Sofia Barbosa, CEO of Emmaus Greenwich, said: “Our local volunteers are a much-valued part of the Emmaus Greenwich team. We are keen to expand the range of roles we offer, and hopefully, there are opportunities that will appeal to all ages, skills and interests.
“If you would like to get involved, then get in touch or visit us to see first-hand what we’re all about.”
Emmaus Greenwich offers all volunteers an opportunity to develop their skills and gain experience for a worthwhile cause. Training is offered where possible, and food and travel expenses are available.
To find out more about the roles on offer and access the online application form, visit: emmaus.org.uk/greenwich/ support-us/volunteer-roles
Grab your mates, warm up your vocal cords and cheer on England at these spots in Greenwich and Lewisham for Euros 2024
Duke of Greenwich
For footie fans and foodies, you’re going to want to head down to The Duke for Euros 2024, showing the games on its new 3m x 3m outdoor screen in the beer garden. Plus, The Duke has gone alfresco and moved most of its kitchen outside with a BBQ menu for the summer months. Throw a lamb rib with harissa and garlic yoghurt on the barbie, won’t you?
91 Colomb Street, SE10 9EZ www.dukeofgreenwich.com
Jam Circus
The circus is back in town at Deptford. Rebranded from The Job Centre, there are a few nods to the original Jam Circus that once resided in Brockley. With some tasty grub and your favourite beers on tap – this is a great spot to watch the game.
120-122 Deptford High Street, SE8 4NP Jamcircus.com
Kings Arms
Showing every game of Euros 2024, this Greenwich spot comes with food and drinks packages on pre-order, so all you have to think about on the day is the match at hand.
16 King William Walk, Greenwich, SE10 9JH www.greeneking.co.uk/pubs/greaterlondon/kings-arms-greenwich
The Observatory
Cheer along to every kick, tackle and goal at this local as they blow the starting whistle on a summer of sport. Book a table online and secure your seat.
31 Entertainment Avenue, North Greenwich, SE10 0DY
www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/restaurants/ london/theobservatory/euros
The Lost Hour
Recently refurbished and ready to welcome sports fans, The Lost Hour has the most craft beers being served in Greenwich. So, you’ll be able to wet your whistle while watching the game at this spot.
217-219 Greenwich High Road, Greenwich, SE10 8NB www.crafted-social.co.uk/lost-hour-greenwich
The Brookmill
This Victorian corner pub is ready to welcome you for the season with its updated courtyard, where it will be showing all the Euros matches. Head down for the footy, stay for the honest pub dishes and ice-cold beers.
65 Cranbrook Road, St John’s, Deptford, SE8 4EJ www.thebrookmill.co.uk
Join a local group making music to ‘explore the legacy, the heroes and the impact that a generation has had on society’, as organiser Tracy Durrant tells Eliza Frost
“There’s something that happens when people start to sing together that helps people feel good,” explains Tracy Durrant.
Tracy founded Everyone’s a Singer and is currently running the A Song for Windrush programme in partnership with the University of Greenwich, which aims to celebrate and bring people together through music.
Everyone’s a Singer started in 2019 following voice lessons that Tracy was conducting, she realised many of the students wanted a space where they could meet other people in the community.
To mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the Windrush generation last year, Tracy ran a programme of events in partnership with the University of Greenwich – including a film screening, a flag raising, church service, dancing and more.
A Song for Windrush is a “continuation of our work around celebrating generations of the Caribbean community in the local area”, Tracy explains.
The songwriting series has seen the community come together to discuss what original song they want to create to either remember the past, look at the present, or look at the legacy they want to leave through song.
“It’s a discussion and it’s a collaboration,” says Tracy. “It’s a mixture of exploring the history, exploring the legacy, the pioneers, the heroes, the impact that the Windrush generation has had on society.”
She adds: “Everyone’s a Singer is always about how music, wellbeing and storytelling are interconnected and how it really helps people to have a space to share their stories through songs.”
There are members of Everyone’s a Singer in A Song for Windrush, members of the University of Greenwich, and “there are people on the programme who didn’t know anything about
Windrush, so they’re learning”.
“Everybody has their own story,” Tracy adds, saying that the group has now “started to see a common thread between the room”.
Performing together “helps people to express their emotions and reduce stress, anxiety and social isolation”, Tracy explains.
She says: “It provides a space where people can connect and build their confidence. You really see people’s confidence grow when they get a chance to perform.
“There’s so many different ways that singing together supports the
community and self-expression, and just having an outlet to be creative, as that is not something that everyone gets to have.
“I think everybody is creative, but some people just don’t get a chance to explore their creativity, whether it be music, art, poetry, whatever it might be. But it’s really important for people to have some sort of creative outlet.
“It is really beneficial to someone’s overall wellbeing and these sessions contribute to that, which is great.”
How the song from A Song for Windrush ends up, “time will tell”, says Tracy. “But it is going be a lot of fun.”
And you can still join the group, too. They are always looking for extra voices for the choir or those who can play an instrument. All levels of experience are welcome.
They will be showcasing the song in a celebration at a later date.
everyonesasinger.com/windrush
This year’s summer season at the Southbank Centre, You BelongHere , from Saturday 29 June – Sunday 8 September, is a beacon of welcome for everyone, packed with vibrant and diverse performance, poetry, talks, art, music and family fun.
e season is inspired by the unsung explorers and cultural trailblazers celebrated in the Hayward Gallery exhibition Tavares Strachan: ere Is Light Somewhere, and takes its name from one of Strachan’s text-based neon sculptures. e exhibition, from Tuesday 18 June – Sunday 1 September, is the rst mid-career survey of the New York-based, Bahamian artist. Don’t forget, under-12s go free, and under-30s can get tickets for just £8 Tuesdays –Fridays and after 5pm on Saturdays. Outside the gallery, discover spectacular free public art inside and outside the venues, each connected to the theme of the summer season and ready to welcome you to the site. Plus, don’t miss the return of everyone’s favourite interactive summer fountainJeppe Hein's Appearing Rooms.
On weekends, the outdoor Riverside Stage hosts free events with some of our city’s most exciting artists and collectives representing local and global communities, including AZEEMA, Counterpoints Arts, ESEA unseen, FLAWA, Just Vibez and SOUNDS LiKE CHAOS curating live music, performance, dance, fashion and more. Kicking things o is NAZAR on Saturday 29 June, a joyous party celebrating Pride in London featuring DJs from the SWANA and South Asian communities. JAZZ RE:FEST also returns to the Southbank Centre on Saturday 20 July. Come and join in as our artists and collectives create spaces for conversation, connection and community-building throughout the summer
SAT 29 JUN – SUN 8 SEP
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Fantastic performances will entertain the whole family, from the joyous circus show Afrique en Cirque from Wednesday 24 – Sunday 28 July, spectacular new musical Frankie Goes to Bollywood from Wednesday 31 July – Sunday 18 August, and the enchanting show Home for little ones on Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 July. is production is inspired by creator Anastasiia Liubchenko’s personal story. She left her house in Ukraine to nd a new home in the Netherlands.
In the literature and talks programme, celebrate the 100th birthday of iconic writer James Baldwin with an entire day of conversations on Sunday 21 July. Plus, there will also be thought-provoking events from celebrated writers David Olusoga, Kelechi
Okafor, Sathnam Sanghera and more. While you’re here, there’s a feast of food and drink pop-ups to enjoy, and why not also visit London’s very own secret garden on top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall to soak up the sunshine. It’s set to be a summer to remember, celebrating what makes all of us belong at the one-of-a-kind Southbank Centre.
Find out more at www.southbankcentre.co.uk/summer
Charlton Athletic will be hosting a FREE Family Fun Day during the summer holidays and you’re invited!
The Fun Day is set to run from 12pm to 4pm on Tuesday, July 30th in the car park at The Valley (Floyd Road, SE7 8BL).
Bring all the family to an exciting day with lots of activities for everyone, whether you love your football or not! Enjoy special games and attractions, meet the men’s and women’s first team players and tuck into delicious food and drink, plus much more!
All activities other than the food and drink will be free of charge on the day with local vendors on site as part of the food and drink offering, where both cash and card payments will be accepted.
Close to 2,000 people attended the club’s previous FREE Family Fun Day in April and this summer’s event promises to be bigger and better with even more activities
for all the family to enjoy.
The event is free to turn up to on the day but if you pre-order your tickets all Under 11s in your booking will receive a FREE Charlton Athletic goody bag on the day!
To find out more about the event and to pre-order your tickets, scan the QR code below.
Every week I think of a subject for these articles and I always try and think of something new and different to the others I’ve been doing recently. So I thought this week I’d better find something far-flung and far away from Greenwich and Woolwich and the areas in the borough that I usually write about.
The most far-flung thing I could think of is Pope Street Station. How many of you know where that was? On the 1870s OS map I can find the site of the station – but there is no sign of it there, although the Dartford Loop line is there, running past the future site.
The Dartford Loop line was built by the South Eastern Railway and opened in 1866. It leaves the North Kent Line at Hither Green and goes on its own route down to Dartford, basically going via Sidcup. In 1870 as it neared Sidcup it ran past the site of Pope Street but there was no station there and the area is marked on the map as ‘Lower Bedmont’. Lower Bedmont has entirely resisted research – not a single reference can I find using the Google search system or the British Library newspaper database. There are a few mentions of ‘Bedmont’ itself, without the ‘Lower’ prefix. This includes names and references in nearby buildings and streets and I’ve even found an article which discusses it. ‘Bedmont’ seems to have been part of the Kemnel
Manor area – somewhere near where the new Muslim cemetery is now.
The site of the future station as shown on the 1870 map is at a point at which Footscray Road, from Eltham meets Cross Lane going south –now Southwood Road and in 1870 a brickworks is marked there. Going north from the crossroads to the Avery Hill area is Pope Street which looks a bit more promising - there are buildings just down the road and eventually Pope Street Woods. Further north and also close to the road was ‘Black Boy Wood’. ‘Black Boy’ usually means there is a connection with King Charles II, who was given that as a nickname. Nearby is an area which Charles II granted to Sir John Shaw – now the grounds of the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, west of where this woodland once stood.
In 1870 not only was this still countryside but the local crime was also rural. In 1870 poachers William Pratt, and George Loversuch, of Lee, were summoned by John Joiner,
gamekeeper. He said that on a Sunday afternoon he had seen them in Pope Street Wood, kneeling down at some rabbit holes. They had four rabbit nets and a ferret. Pratt had a dead rabbit in his pocket. He knew they were poachers who had previously been several times in prison.
In the early 19th century these woods were also used by the fox-hunting fraternity. On one occasion in 1893 the Sanderstead Harriers hounds met at Eltham ‘and turned out a vixen fox’ and chased her to Blendon. Then ‘an old favourite fox was turned out in Avery Hill Park... he went off to Black Boy Wood ... he was saved alive after a hard run of two hours’ (poor creature). As late as 1896 the areas was known for ‘first rate shooting’... ‘its close proximity to London... renders it especially desirable for gentlemen engaged in business in the City’. In Black Boy and Pope Street Woods ‘the coverts are well stocked... with a large stock of wild birds left from last season... the bag should comprise a fair amount of hares, rabbits, partridges,
and woodcock, as well as pheasants’.
In the 1870s there are many newspapers advertisements for sale of ’valuable growing underwood... in Pope Street Woods, near Eltham’. However there are more ‘Properties for Sale’ advertisements and they are quite clear that they are looking for purchasers with development in mind. For example “Sixteen plots of prettily-timbered building land, with frontages to the road from Pope Street to Chislehurst, overlooking a well-wooded and highly picturesque country... choice sites for the erection of detached villas with great accessibility to town”. But this is not an area which will keep its countryside very much longer.
For the sake of the local wildlife it’s just as well that housing development proceeded quite quickly and eventually a railway station was opened at the crossroads where Pope Street met Footscray Road.
Pope Street Station opened on 1st April
1878 on the Dartford Loop Line between Mottingham and Sidcup Stations - and was said to have originally opened for the convenience of first class ticket holders who lived in the growing suburb of up-market houses. It is located within a cutting and its original design was to the South Eastern Railway’s standard but ‘economical’ model. It had two platforms with – as in most other places - the ’up side’ where the main buildings were sited. These were single-storey and were like those at Crayford, Bexley and Sidcup Stations. There were the usual offices in wooden buildings and the station was lit with gas lamps – the wrought iron posts which held them were kept even when the lamps themselves had been converted to electricity. The ’down side’ platform had a canopy but no buildings.
The station had a goods yard on the ‘up side’ with two sidings and a dock platform. There was also a two storey timber signal box at the end of the ‘down ’ platform – which was eventually demolished in 1955.
Now if you are all wondering what happened to Pope Street Station .. the next thing to happen is that on 1st January 1886, the station’s name was changed to ‘New Eltham’ - said to be done to please a developer. For a while it was known as ‘New Eltham and Pope Street Halt’. At around this time a lattice overbridge was installed so passengers no longer had to walk across the lines to change platforms. This was removed in 2013 and replaced with a more accessible footbridge and lifts. By 1926 electric trains were using the station.
In 1955 platforms were lengthened and the goods yard partly closed. One siding remained, controlled from Sidcup, until goods traffic was totally withdrawn in 1963 and the old yard became a car park. Later in the 1960s the station buildings were upgraded and replaced. In 1988 a new single storey brick ‘up side’ building was installed.
So the hamlet of Lower Bedmont, also known as Pope Street, lasted until the end of the 19th century. By the 1920s it
was a railway suburb and a small centre had grown up close to the new station. It was built along with the houses for the middle class commuter, who ‘went to his business in a frock coat, top hat and spats’. Today the pattern of the country side remains and the old fields and their boundaries survive in the numerous local sports fields – but in the 2020s they too are disappearing under the ever encroaching new housing.
Pope Street became Southwood Road and then later Avery Hill Road. There were ‘farms and hop gardens all the way down... Tudor cottages were there, very old’. The road was narrow and there were lots of trees ‘right down to Polecat Corner ‘ - that was, I think, the point at which Avery Hill Road meets Halfway Street. Rural activities continued at the Beehive pub in Footscray Road. It was rebuilt in 1897 but still hosted trotting races and travelling circuses in an adjacent field.
Most importantly to the development of a centre was a library, built almost
adjacent to the station in October 1931. It was opened by H.M. Tomlinson – an east end based writer and journalist, known for travel writing, novels and short stories often about London River and life at sea. It had been built and equipped by Woolwich Borough Council at a cost of £12,500. The earliest references to it say it was a ‘public library and convenience’. This convenience is long gone but there does seem to be one of those automatic things outside now. I also seem to remember there was a little museum in the library in the 1970s and I don’t know if it’s still there. There also was, or is, a cafe in the library. I remember some 20 years ago my husband coming home and with some excitement telling me about the profligate beans on toast which you could buy in the library for 50p!
Industry also began to root itself in the area. I have already mentioned the brickworks at the south end of Southwood Road but there is also one on the site of All
Most important was the Stanley works built just off the west side of Avery Hill Road. I think I’ve written about them before, when I first started writing for Weekender. They were precision instrument makers. The factory was built in 1916 by George Heath, a Crayford based maker of navigational instruments. In the 1920s Heath was taken over by Stanley’s – the South Norwood based instrument making company. In the Second World War production was intensified and more buildings were added. In 1945 a V2 damaged a whole wing. During the 1940s and 1950s the company flourished and expanded, developing and making a very wide range of instrumentation. A wide range of precision instruments was available, but they made their money out of sextants and compasses, because every Naval officer had to have one. The factory eventually closed in the 1990s. It is now the site of housing around Stanley Close.
There is a red painted building behind the library - a rectangular windowless blockhouse built in 1954. This was a crucial part of London’s Cold War civil defences. It was the Woolwich Borough Control and, later, Greenwich Control Centre. Members of Subterranea Britannica visited it in 2003 going through an air lock and two steel plate blast doors. They saw a ventilation plant with a diesel generator; a ‘Signals Room’ with a manual switchboard and a large 1:50,000 map of South East London and North Kent on one wall. The emergency escape hatch was bolted over it to prevent access.
There was a kitchen with a 1950s electric cooker, a toilet with two cubicles and three hand basins, a gent’s toilet was a urinal. The whole place was damp with mould.
Lower Bedmont had changed a lot in a century.
Information on the station from the excellent Kent Rail web site.
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1)
BUGSBYS WAY
PLANNED DIRECTIONAL ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Blade Traffic Management who need to carry out Removal of advertisement unit near McDonalds and Rails Bridge.
2. The Order will come into operation on 03rd July 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take one night. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Westbound Bugsby's Way at the junction of Peninsular Park Road. Please note that this is night work stating at 22:00 p.m. on 03/07/24 and finishing at 06:00 a.m. on 04/07/2024.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport.
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 13 June 2024
INTERNAL REF - PL / LA 70770 FN 662 / Lic. No: 71280
ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH
The Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. *) Order 202*
The Greenwich (Charged For-Parking Places) (Amendment No. *) Order 202*
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) proposes to make the above-mentioned Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49, 124 and Part IV of Schedule 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended.
2. The general effect of the Orders would be to:
a) Replace part of the existing ‘Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm Zone EO’ bay with single yellow ‘No Waiting Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm’ restrictions on Glenlyon Road, north-west side, from a point 13.5 meters south-west of the common boundary of Nos. 27 and 29 Glenlyon Road for 4.5 metres in a south-westerly direction.
b) update the map tiles attached to The Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) Order 2018 and The Greenwich (Charged-For Parking Places) Order 2018 so as to reflect the provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (a).
3. A copy of the proposed Orders and other documents can be viewed by emailing traffic-orders@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 25 Glenlyon Road 24-06).
4. Further information may be obtained by emailing traffic-orders@royalgreenwich.gov.uk
5. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Orders, should send a statement in writing by 10th July 2024, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made by email to traffic-orders@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 25 Glenlyon Road 24-06).
6. Persons objecting to the proposed Orders should be aware that in view of current access to information legislation, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection.
Assistant Director, Transport Communities, Environment and Central Royal Borough of Greenwich
Dated 19th June 2024
ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 16A ARMED FORCES DAY PROCESSION TEMPORARY TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS – SATURDAY 29th JUNE 2024
1. NOTICE IS HEARBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich has made an order under the provisions of Section 16A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to facilitate the Armed Forces Day Procession on Saturday 29th June 2024. The effect of the Order will be to temporarily close certain roads and impose various traffic restrictions in the rolling road closure, as follows:
(a) on Saturday 29th June 2024, between 8:00 a.m. and 11:00am, to:
(1) prohibit vehicles from entering in, proceeding in, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in the following lengths of road:
(i) Love Lane, both sides, for its entire extent.
(ii) Wellington Street, both sides, from its junction with Love Lane to its junction with John Wilson Street (A205).
(iii) John Wilson Street (A205), both sides, from its junction with Wellington Street to its junction with Artillery Place.
(iv) Artillery Place, both sides, from its junction with John Wilson Street (A205) to its junction with Repository Road.
(v) Repository Road, both sides from its junction with Artillery Place to its junction with Woolwich Barracks Field.
(2) Roads adjoining those listed in (1) (i)-(v) above will be closed at the junction with those roads for the duration of the Military Parade.
2. The above prohibitions will only apply to such times and such extent as shall be indicated by the placing of appropriate traffic signs. Alternative routes for diverted vehicles would be available via local roads and would be indicated via local signage.
3. Nothing in this Order shall apply in relation to emergency vehicles.
4. Whilst the closures are in operation, vehicular access to properties affected by these works would be maintained wherever possible subject to the extent and operations of the event. Any vehicles within the extent of the closure and any adjoining roads will be removed during the operations of the event.
5. Queries concerning the closure should be directed to traffic-orders@royalgreenwich.gov.uk quoting reference 06-24 Armed Forces Day Procession.
Assistant Director, Transport, Communities, Environment and Central, Royal Borough of Greenwich
Dated 19th June 2024
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (AS AMENDED)
Town & Country Planning (Development Management Procedure)(England) Order 2015 Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (AS AMENDED) Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 (AS AMENDED)
Notice is hereby given that application(s) have been made to The Royal Borough of Greenwich in respect of the under mentioned premises/ sites. You can see the submissions and any plans at http://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/planning.
If development proposals affect Conservation Areas and/or Statutorily Listed Buildings under the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Area) Act 1990 (As Amended) this will be shown within the item below.
Anyone who wishes to comment on these applications should be made in writing to Development Planning within 21 days of the date of this notice.
Please quote the appropriate reference number.
Date: 19/06/2024
Victoria Geoghegan
Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control
List of Press Advertisements - 19/06/2024
Publicity for Planning Applications
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/0657/F
Site Address: 36 & 36A MOIRA ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1SH
Development: Replacement of main shared front door with a Climatec Period Georgian 2 style wooden effect front door to match existing size.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/0658/F
Site Address: 34 & 34A MOIRA ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1SH
Development: Replacement of main shared front door with a Climatec Period Georgian 2 style wooden effect front door to match existing size.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: Asda Stores Limited 24/1204/MA
Site Address: 123 GREENWICH SOUTH STREET, LONDON, SE10 8NX
Development: An application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for a minor material amendment in connection with planning permission dated 06/10/2021, ref: 21/1884/MA for An application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for a minor material amendment in connection with planning permission dated 16/03/2021 Ref: 20/3856/F for Construction of nine flats (comprising 1 x studio, 5 x 1-bed, 2 x 2-bed and 1 x 3-bed) over retail unit (with ancillary basement), in two/three storeys, with parking to rear and vehicular access off Lindsell street. Amendment to Planning Permission 17/1914/F (as further amended by 20/1360/MA). to allow: - Variation of Condition 2 (Approved Drawings), - Installation of 3 louvred vents on the rear elevation of the store at ground floor level; - Infill of the approved window on the rear elevation with brick to match the approved materials; - Replacement of the approved metal fenced enclosure to the plant area with a timber hit-and-miss fence; and - Correction to ground floor retail space annotated on drawings. (Amended description) to allow:
- Amendment to Condition 17 (Hours of Operations and Deliveries).
Conservation Area: adjacent to Ashburnham Triangle
Applicant: Oliver Jackson AAVA Ltd 24/1206/HD
Site Address: 158 LANGTON WAY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7JS
Development: Conversion of the existing garage to a habitable space and construction of a two-storey side front infill extension. Construction of a rear dormer roof extension. Installation of two roof lights to the original front roof slope. Alterations to the front and rear fenestration (Revised description).
Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH
Applicant: Mr Alex Wilkinson FFT 24/1405/F
Site Address: ST URSULAS CONVENT SCHOOL, 70 CROOMS HILL, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8HN
Development: Like-for-like replacement of single-glazed timber windows with double-glazed timber windows across the main school building. (The works are proposed to a locally-listed building, and would impact the setting of the West Greenwich Conservation Area and multiple statutorily listed buildings within and adjacent to the site).
Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/1408/F
Site Address: 123 ARSENAL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1JZ
Development: Replacement of windows and doors - to original design.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: Weybourne Holdings PTE. Ltd 24/1695/F
Site Address: Millennium Retail Park Car Park & 59 Bugsby's Way and land bound by Bugsby's Way, Peartree Way and Commercial Way, SE7
Development: Comprehensive mixed-use redevelopment of the site comprising the demolition of the existing commercial unit and provision of new buildings and basement comprising residential (Use Class C3), flexible commercial and community uses (Classes E, F1 and Sui Generis), new public square, car parking, cycle parking, private and communal amenity space, access and servicing arrangements, plant, and other associated works.
Further detailed explanation of the proposal (not forming part of the formal description of development set out above):
1,251 residential dwellings (Use Class C3)
1,121sqm (GIA) of flexible commercial (Class E and Sui Generis – drinking establishment)
83.8sqm (GIA) of flexible commercial and community floorspace (Classes E and F1) Proposed building heights ranging between 4 and 20 storeys, with the three tallest buildings at 16, 17 and 20 storeys
(This application is an EIA development and is accompanied by an Environmental Statement) (The development may impact on the setting of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site; Conservation Areas - Greenwich Park, East Greenwich, Thames Barrier & Bowater Road, and Westcombe Park; and Listed Buildings - Royal Naval College, Former East Greenwich Fire Station and East Greenwich Library)
Applicant: Mr Michal Zimny 24/1720/HD Site Address: 16 GUILDFORD GROVE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8JT Development: Replacement of timber decking in rear garden with new composite decking, using Neotimber Essential Range (woodgrain)
replacement of all windows with a white PVCu double glazed units and astral glazing bars, replacement of front door with a like for like design and replacement of the rear door to PVCu and to match existing.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/1754/HD
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/1759/HD
Address: 13 PHINEAS PETT ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6RQ
Development: The replacement of all existing windows to a double glazed white PVCu casement window with Astragal Glazing bars, the replacement of back door with a like for like white PVCu door and replacement of front door
People with a learning disability want to be seen, heard and valued. We’re proud to be supporting Learning Disability Week 2024, joining Mencap’s national campaign to celebrate diversity and inclusion. The theme for this year is "Do you see me?”
There will be events on throughout the week celebrating the talents and contributions of people with learning disabilities to our community.
• Thursday 20 June, 5pm to 9pm - Camouflage Café Disco 3 Arnott Close, Thamesmead, SE28 8BG
An evening packed with disco vibes, karaoke hits and games. RSVP to info@camouflgecafe.co.uk or 020 8191 9622
• Friday 21 June, 10.30am to 12.30pm – ‘Mencap’s got talent’ talent show Woolwich Common Community Centre, 17 Leslie Smith Square SE18 4DW RSVP to sc6@greenwichmencap.org.uk
What’s on: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/learning-disability-week-2024
The result of the Mottingham, Coldharbour and New Eltham by-election held on Thursday 13 June is as follows:
• Mark George Simpson , Reform UK 232 votes
• Matt Stratford , Green Party 101 votes
• Nikki Thurlow, Labour Party 1,101 votes
Enjoy free family days out in Royal Greenwich's amazing parks and open spaces this summer.
• Sunday 30 June, Shrewsbury Park
• Saturday 13 July, Charlton Park
• Sunday 21 July, Eltham Park South
• Sunday 21 July, Bostall Gardens
• Sunday 28 July, Mycenae Gardens
• Sunday 15 September, Southwood Park
More info at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/events
• Roger Tester, Local Conservatives 1,359 votes (elected)
• Ulysse Lucien Abbate , Liberal Democrats 90 votes
The turnout was 27.34%, with a total of 2,888 ballots cast.
