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Pick of the Week

Queer seas

Historian Seth LeJacq explores Evelyn De Morgan’s extraordinary painting The Sea Maidens as an entryway to the history of the sea as a queer space in this free talk at Royal Museums Greenwich. From The Little Mermaid and the Royal Navy’s traditions of “rum, sodomy and the lash” to today’s queer “mermaiding” communities, the event will ask what the sea can mean for those who don’t ﬁt their societies’ prevailing norms of gender and sexuality.

Date: Wednesday 10 July 2024, 1pm to 1.30pm

Tickets: Free Queen’s House, Romney Road, SE10 9NF www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/queens-house/ salons-queens-house-queer-seas

Walk the plank

Take part in a weekend of living history as the Old Royal Naval College is overrun with pirates. This event is perfect for families and history enthusiasts alike.

Spend the day learning about the Golden Age of Piracy – between 1650 and 1720 –when more than 5,000 pirates were said to have sailed the seas.

Learn to separate pirate fact from ﬁction, enjoy songs of the sea, witness small sword and cutlass ﬁghts, and hear the tale of a real 18th-century mutiny. Aye, matey!

Dates: Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 July 2024, 11am to 4pm

Tickets: £13.50

Old Royal Naval College, SE10 9NN ornc.org/whats-on/golden-age-of-piracy

Sunday tunes

Enjoy a relaxing Sunday at Eltham Palace and experience a day of live music performed against the backdrop of the moat and gardens. Bring along a deck chair and picnic for an afternoon of superb music on three Sundays in July.

Performances will be London Jazz Singer, Maja Szymczyk and band on 7 July, and Nicholas James and band on 14 and 21 July.

Performances take place between 12pm and 4pm, with intervals in between each set.

Dates: Sunday 7 July, Sunday 14 July and Sunday 21 July 2024, 10am to 5pm

Tickets: Adult £20, child £12.50 Eltham Palace and Gardens, Court Yard, Eltham, SE9 5NP www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/ whats-on/eltham-palace-music-ona-sunday

Deptford Scratch

Introducing, the first ever Deptford Scratch: hosted at the Deptford Lounge, it will see audiences enjoy an evening filled with performances of fresh and unfiltered new writing. Performances will include: · Dig by Joe Wiltshire Smith

· The Last Rhubarb Festival by Ruth Kelner

· Period Drama by Malini Raman Middleton

· Date Me by Molly Goetzee

· Pain Gap by Ella Dorman-Gajic

· The Interview by Gloria Brown

Date: Thursday 11 July 2024, 7pm

Tickets: Pay what you decide Deptford Lounge, 9 Giﬃn Street, SE8 4RJ deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/ event/deptford-scratch

Exploring cooking heritage

Davy’s summer wine tasting

Summer is for grazing and trying new things – and you can do both at Davy’s Wine summer tasting event. You’ll be able to enjoy a selection of over 70 wines from around the world in the outdoor setting of Vintners Yard, which is covered just in case there is (un)expected summer rainfall.

The Summer Tasting is a relaxed and informal event, where you can meet the winemakers, hear their stories and taste their wines at your own pace.

Your ticket includes the tasting, plus a burger, hot dog or margherita pizza.

Date: Saturday 13 July 2024, 11.30am to 3.30pm

Tickets: £50 Vintners Yard (Davy’s Wine Vaults) Waller Way, SE10 8JA www.davywine.co.uk/product/summertasting-food

Tunde Tejumola and Pa Modou will discuss sharing food from each of their histories in a talk with Jimi Famurewa at Woolwich Works.

Hosted by the author and restaurant critic, the panel will explore the joys and complications of cooking food based on heritage. It will dive into the way diaspora foods are perceived, if they are understood and how important it feels to be sharing food from each of these panellists’ history. As part of the Beanfeast events, this is sure to be an interesting discussion.

Date: Saturday 6 July 2024, 4.30pm –16+ age guidance

Tickets: Advance Price £5 plus 10% booking fee

Ropekeepers Studio, The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 Street, SE18 6HD www.woolwich.works/events/ beanfeast-cooking-heritage

Pergola London

The owner behind bespoke home fragrance brand Pergola London explains how scents are developed – and why Greenwich is great throughout the seasons

“Pergola London feels the perfect symmetry of my three backgrounds in fashion design, jewellery making and retail,” says Sue Lee, owner of Pergola London.

Selling candles, oils and diffusers, Sue explains that “all the items are handmade in short runs” and “each one is bespoke and finished with a great attention to detail”.

As Pergola London works on a new website to be launched this year, Sue will continue serving customers online and at Greenwich Market, alongside “our amazing cat Freya, who we love very much”.

Sue gives The Weekender a behindthe-scenes look at business:

The Weekender: How did you come to launch Pergola London?

Sue Lee: I’m originally from South Korea and moved to London to study English; one thing led to another, and I married a British/Australian. Having now been settled here for over 15 years; I feel very much a part of the fabric of London.

I launched Pergola London because, after many years of working for other people, I knew I wanted to run and grow my own business. I felt that I needed to get back in touch with my creativity and saw a niche in the home fragrance market. I always loved good quality candles and diffusers, but these were few and far between; too often I was let down, so I decided to make my own – and the rest is history.

What does Pergola London offer?

Pergola London offers 100% handpoured and hand-crafted home fragrance products. We have a large range of vegan soy candles and various types of diffusers, including reed diffusers, car diffusers, diffuser tablets and oils for electric mist diffusers.

We pride ourselves on our eco-friendly

ethos; using biodegradable packaging, offering discounts to customers who bring back jars for recycling and carefully choosing ingredients with low carbon footprints. On that, we source ingredients locally where we can and we are strong believers in supporting other UK businesses.

Our signature candles come with handdried flower decorations, as do our reed diffusers with dried flower posies.

How do you come up with new smells and products?

I come up with new smells and products by drawing on my South Korean background in herbal medicine. South Korea has a long history of creating a better lifestyle through the harmony of foods, scents and teas.

The product names are always tricky, but I use a combination of literal naming and more creative names. A new product could take between six months to a year to develop. I insist on lots of testing and will never launch a product unless I am 100% happy.

I often share my new products pre-launch with regular customers to get honest feedback. I’ve been lucky enough to grow the business organically and have a small studio to work out of; I spend two to three days a week making and then selling face-to-face at Greenwich Market at the weekends.

What do you think candles and diffusers bring to a space?

Candles and diffusers bring a sense of ambience and comfort to a space. Candles provide a soft, flickering light that creates a warm, cosy atmosphere, often associated with relaxation and calmness. Their gentle illumination can make a room feel more intimate and inviting.

Diffusers, on the other hand, disperse pleasant scents that can influence mood and enhance the feeling of

wellbeing. Fragrances like lavender or eucalyptus can promote relaxation, while citrus or rose can invigorate and refresh. Together, candles and diffusers engage multiple senses, transforming an ordinary space into a soothing sanctuary.

What do you like about selling at Greenwich Market?

I like the lovely regular customers

who are so loyal and have even become friends. The area is full of history, and I love that I am a part of this, too. The other traders you meet support each other and there are many characters who you would never find anywhere else in London.

Do you have any local tips for readers?

I would say if you wanted to get to know the real Greenwich, you need

to see it through all the seasons. Summer is amazing for walking along the Thames, in spring, Greenwich Park is in full bloom and great for picnicking. Whereas autumn is lovely for exploring the museums or cosying up in a pub, and winter is my favourite time to visit Greenwich Market as the Christmas lights, music, crafts and food are world-class.

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Going Up in Smoke

NOW Gallery hosts a new installation inspired by the history of Greenwich Peninsula’s chimneys

“A rooftop is not really complete without a chimney stack,” say John Booth and Mat Barnes from CAN ahead of their latest exhibition.

As part of NOW Gallery’s Design Commission of 2024, Up in Smoke by the designer-architect duo is bringing the peninsula’s industrial skyline, popping with colour, inside the gallery with an interactive look at the nostalgia of chimneys.

Speaking to the pair as they are installing Up in Smoke, they tell The Weekender how they have worked in tandem – Mat doing the technical, architectural aspects and John the decorative.

John says: “It’s nice to collaborate with somebody because then you learn a lot more about their field. It’s really interesting when they work quite differently, so it’s been nice to work with

Mat and see his technical work.”

Mat says he always liked John’s work and working on a pitch together “paved the way for this collaboration”, he adds. They did historical and cultural research on the site where the gallery is located and were inspired by its industrial history to what it has become now.

Their starting point for the exhibition came after finding an etching of the Powder magazine used to store gunpowder from the 1700s, “which was the first drawing of the peninsula”, says Mat.

“We started looking at more recent history and the chimney icon became a symbol of the changing industrial heritage and a sign of changing times,” he adds.

John explains how “chimneys are such a

 John Booth

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definite thing, so recognisable and even the scale of them”.

He says: “There is a nostalgic element. We both live in southeast London, and I can see chimneys out of the window from New Cross to Surrey Quays. There’s an industrial heritage to the southeast London skyline, especially in areas like Woolwich, Greenwich and along the river.

“It feels industrial to me in a way that I find recognisable. Having grown up in an industrial part of northwest England, there’s a comfort and nostalgia attached to an industrial skyline, whether it’s in use or not.”

Mat adds that many houses in London were also built at a time when chimneys were the main source of heat in a house, and now are mainly decoration.

The chimneys in the exhibition are inspired by real-life historical photographs, reinterpretations of chimneys that no longer exist – you will find texts alongside each to explain what their function was in the past.

“There’s also a video of chimneys being felled on Greenwich Peninsula, which represents the process of rebirth and renewal of new factories. Those black and white images and video work well against the bright, colourful chimneys,” explains Mat.

Visitors to Up in Smoke will find five chimneys, all hand-painted by John: you’ll be able to walk through them, stare in, walk up and lots more, including a collaging table and ceramic chimneys, too.

“They have a flatness to them because, when we were designing it, we spoke about them looking like set pieces. We’ve left the timber bare on purpose, so there is that element of facade or artifice,” explains John.

John also spent time carefully choosing the clashing colours for the chimney; working with bright pops of paint, which is similar taste to both of their work.

“Mapping the structures has been really

interesting,” John adds, “and even in a simplistic way, because I really love surface decoration, it’s really refreshing to work on an entirely new surface, scale and style of object”.

“I’m used to decorating small ceramic objects,” he says. “When you’ve got a wide brush and you can just paint really thick stripes, it’s been viscerally satisfying to do.”

Not only have the duo maximised impact with colour, with paints sponsored by Dulux, but also with the physical space. One of the chimneys almost reaches the ceiling, and it encourages people to travel through the exhibition due to the incremental heights.

“You come in thinking about how the chimneys layer, but the fun part for me was then thinking we could literally layer in the colours and choosing what clashes next to each other,” says John.

So, for a bright interpretation of the area’s historic chimney-filled landscape, visit Up in Smoke for free from 21 June to 22 September 2024.

NOW Gallery, The Gateway Pavilions, Peninsula Square, SE10 0SQ

nowgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/up-in-smoke

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Windrush, the Journey

Opera company Pegasus looks at the past, present and future as it brings its finale production to Deptford’s The Albany, celebrating the ‘harmony in diversity’

“The stories are timeless, the feelings of the characters are timeless, and the themes are timeless,” says Alison Buchanan, artistic director of Pegasus Opera Company of the theatre of opera.

A Pegasus production, Windrush, the Journey, offers something for everyone and marks the past, present and future of Windrush through opera.

Alison says it has “something different to challenge you or something to delight you”.

After travelling the UK, the finale

of the concert tour will take place at Deptford’s The Albany.

Through the music of Chevalier de Saint Georges, Richard Thompson and Des Oliver, the show portrays the arc of Windrush.

The three Black composers represent different parts of the Windrush journey – from its origin to present day.

Alison explains: “In terms of why we wanted to focus on Windrush, it is a story that people today understand and it’s a lived experience. The opera and an artist’s job is telling common-

themed stories that we all feel. But it’s also reflecting on history.

“Sometimes the role of music is to be provocative, to provoke change, to provoke thought. And part of this is done by storytelling. I think that one shouldn’t shy away from telling the truth. Our job is to challenge thought and challenge how people perceive things.”

She adds that it is important to listen to things that stretch you.

Windrush, the Journey starts with Caribbean life, which is represented by Chevalier de Saint Georges, who was born in Guadeloupe in the 1700s, and he is 11 years older than Mozart, says Alison. “A lot of his music was lost. The show includes excerpts from his only surviving opera, which is Lamont Anonim, the Anonymous Lover.”

“Then the next journey is the Caribbean Windrush generation,” Alison adds. Richard Thompson was born in London to Jamaican parents who moved here, his Five Aspects of Othello features soliloquies and Alison “thought it would be interesting to see what a Black composers’ take on the subject was”, she says.

And then Des Oliver explores themes from when Caribbean children moved to England, “and they had to make friends with the with white British children and they experienced snow for the first time”, says Alison.

Alison became artistic director of the opera company “reluctantly”; the founder of Pegasus was “brother from another mother” Lloyd Newton, who sadly passed away. In his will, he wrote: “Alison Buchanan is going to run Pegasus.”

She has headed the company ever since, with now executive director of Pegasus, Sonia Hyams.

Founded with the aim of creating opportunities for Black and Asian singers, the tagline of Pegasus is “harmony in diversity”. The company has since produced many productions of standard operas with multicultural casting.

Alison’s background is as a soprano classical singer and she has toured the world.

Pegasus is now a National Portfolio Organisation, with funding from Arts Council England. Alison says she thinks “Lloyd will be smiling”.

“One of the things we always do in our concerts is we always talk to people,” says Alison. “When we have these community concerts that we call Legacy and Hope – something that Lloyd started – we’re always telling stories. I say, you’re in my living room.”

“With classical music, there’s sometimes an expectation that we’re supposed to understand, even though it might not be in English. But I always find that people respond better to what you’re singing when they have a context.”

So, for Windrush, the Journey, there is a narrator (Victoria Evaristo) who will tell the stories of the opera, about Pegasus, about the composers –“there’s dialogue”, says Alison.

You will also find a projection at the performance showing Windrush pictures – some of which are of Alison’s family, she tells The Weekender. “So it’s a feast for the eyes and the ears.”

Dates: Wednesday 26 June to Friday 28 June 2024

Tickets: £12

The Albany, Douglas Way, SE8 4AG www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/ windrush-the-journey

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Charlton Athletic hosting FREE Family Fun Day!

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.

Maria Lister and her

ﬂourishing laundry ﬁrm

Mary Mills

Sixty years ago, when I was young and silly, I was working for a laundry trade magazine. In the office we had bound volumes going back 100 years or so and when I had nothing to do I read my way right through all of them. If you’d known me in 1968 I could told you a lot about the history of the laundry industry but, sadly, in those days we didn’t have photocopiers. The only way of recalling all that information is what’s left in my head - and that’s going fast!

One firm whose name stuck with me was ‘Lister’s’ and only because it was one of the few firms in the south of England - in Woolwich - and it was doing really interesting work in developing new laundry equipment. When I came to live here and I started to look at local industries I could never find anything out about this firm - they were a complete mystery. I remember talking to Jack Vaughan, the first Chair of Greenwich Industrial History Society – did he know anything about them? ‘Oh yes’ he said ‘I used to go out with a girl that worked there’... ‘Ok - but what did they do? ‘Laundry’ he said. He turned out to be right.

Lister’s were in Nightingale Vale which is now a road on the Woolwich Common Council Estate. Today, if you go up the road past all the flats, there’s a very definite bend in the road on the corner of Fennell Street. I’m pretty sure that’s where Lister’s were based in a big old house. There are even pictures of the house on the Historic England website and they say it was built about 1840. The Survey of Woolwich points out that Nightingale Vale follows the line of a stream and also the parish boundary. The area was developed for housing in the mid 19th century and the road

climbed up the hillside to these posh houses at the bend - they were called Belmont Place, 59 Nightingale Vale.

For its first few years Belmont Place seems to have had middle class residents. My research on it found an article in Andrew Simpson’s blog (which I very much recommend (https://chorltonhistory.blogspot. com/search?q=crossness). He had discovered a John Cowan registered to vote in 1865 at Belmont Place and identified him in a photograph taken at Crossness Pumping Station. I’m sorry Andrew I think you are a little bit wrong. I think that John Cowan is a member of Woolwich Local Board and there are various bits of biographical information about him in Vincent’s History of Woolwich. He may well have lived there but he was ‘artisan’ rather than ‘workman’. ‘John Cowan’ was, however, quite a common name.

Later Maria Lister opened the Belmont Laundry in 1881 in sheds behind Belmont Place. She was recently widowed - her husband, Samuel Lister, had been an assistant foreman in the Royal Gun Foundry, Woolwich and had died age only 41 leaving Maria with seven children, No doubt she thought she had better find a way to make a living. In subsequent years the children, once

old enough, all worked in the laundry - the eldest daughters on ‘washing’, from the start. Subsequently her sons were apprenticed as engineers, then returned to be laundry managers. Victor and Samuel Lister served their apprenticeship in the Royal Gun Foundry where their father, Samuel, had worked.

Maria was not alone - other women took washing in and other laundries were set up in this area. Just down the road at 13 Nightingale Vale Anna Maria Berwick had a laundry. This was large enough to have employees, one of whom, Maria Wilkes, was charged with theft of items from the washing in 1884. Nightingale Vale was seen as a good area in which to found a laundry - it was near the barracks and other military buildings all full of men all needing to ‘look smart’ and authorities with contracts to let out.

Maria Lister however was remarkably successful. The laundry flourished and she was to live into the 1930s, by which time the business was in the hands of her grandchildren. As the laundry grew it extended into more and more larger buildings at the back of the house where the land fell away steeply – a younger Lister remembered ‘running down a steep slope to enter the laundry’.

 Site of Belmont Place 2024

 Belmont Laundry ;post-war ad

A shop was established fronting on Nightingale Place itself. They were employing more than forty people and jobs there were frequently advertised in the local press... ‘a good shirt Ironer; constant employment’ in 1888.

The success of the business led Victor Lister to establish the Standard Laundry, further north on Nightingale Vale in 1899. I suspect that this was a takeover of an established business – it was described as “premises substantially built three years ago - splendidly lighted, fitted with gas engine and shafting and with six good dwelling rooms, fitted with every convenience for occupation”. Later Victor and Samuel Lister also became proprietors of the Criterion Laundry in Brockley.

Back at the Belmont Laundry more rear workshops were added, commissioned by Maria – there are reports of ‘architectural drawings. It was enlarged again in 1912 and again later. In 1902, Victor Lister, by then the manager, applied for an electricity supply for a ‘10 horse-power motor’. They also used motorised vehicles and there are newspaper reports of drivers – and the company –being fined for the usual traffic infringements. In 1922 ‘improper use of a lorry’ – sadly there is no report of what this ‘improper use ‘consisted

of. Job advertisements reflect this: “Charge Hand Wanted, to take control of callender room; must have thorough experience and knowledge all work and types of machines’. (I’m afraid my spell checker can’t cope with ‘callenders’. Just as well that I can!)

Note here that the laundries have engines using gas and electricity. This was no longer an industry of hard working washerwomen. The Magazine I worked for in the 1960s – Power Laundry – had been founded to report on and promote the use of powered equipment in the industry. Soon Lister Bros. diversified into light engineering and additional premises were taken on and built at the rear of Belmont Place.

The Lister family were also becoming prominent locally and over the years newspaper reports of their weddings become longer and longer with the names of well known and well connected guests. Younger Listers were involved in Woolwich politics and sat, as Tories, on local Boards and Councils. In 1922 we hear of ‘Councillor Victor Lister - vice-president of - the Woolwich Chamber of Commerce’.

By the late 1920s Listers were producing a great deal of equipment for ‘powered laundries’. A ‘rotary

washer’ was patented internationally by Victor and Samuel – and they held several other patents. They fitted out laundries for local authorities and others – in 1929 for a Poplar Council Laundry, in 1936 for ‘Chelsea Institution’. In 1948 their equipment for clothes drying was adapted for Royal Mail to dry letters which had been accidentally soaked, for whatever reason. In 1949 it was again adapted as a leather drying conveyor machine. They also specialised in decontamination equipment.

In 1949 they introduced the ‘Prosperity Cabinet Shirt Unit with which a team of three workers, could ‘on a balanced work cycle’ restore 120 shirts an hour to a state of perfection. This included a sleeve press. I remember from my 1960s reading that shirt presentation was one of the most difficult areas for laundries to mechanise. It’s perhaps worth noting here that another local firm, Stones, introduced a continuous sheet washing and ironing process in the 1960s.

In the 1950s they developed the ‘Little Plumstead Mechanical Sluice’ specifically for hospital use and in co operation with a Norfolk based specialist unit. Hospital laundries were very much a growth area

in this period. In 1960 Gladiron machines were promoted with great success and in 1961 ‘Hot Air Cabinet’ with having a capacity of 35 gallons per minute. In 1962 it was the ‘twin imperial roly poly packager’ and the ‘Atlantic washer’.

So what happened to this successful and busy local manufacturing business? Well – what happened was the Woolwich Common Estate. Clearly this isn’t the place for me to go into the long saga, of the Public Enquiries and the various demolitions necessary to get that housing built. I mean, if you are demolishing a load of listed buildings including General Gordon’s birthplace what chance does a laundry machinery firm stand?

The company was eventually wound up in 1973.

The Lister family continued for some years with their role in local government. In 1940 Sam Lister, had married Unity Webley. He was a Woolwich councillor but it was Unity who stood for the London County Council.

She was Deputy Chair in the early 1960s and in 1971 she chaired the national Tory Party conference. She died, as a Dame, in 1998 – Sam had

died three years earlier in 1995.

My memories of the 1960s write ups of Lister machinery was that it was ground breaking and successful. Much of the machinery we were reporting on was from northern manufacturers and still steam driven and were basically redesigns of equipment from the 1920s. Growth areas were dry cleaning – pioneered by Leatherhead based Neil and Spencer. And of course, Launderette equipment, very little of which was British. As domestic washing machines became more common institutional laundering was also a growth area – we used to publish a regular Hospital Laundry supplement. Hospital launderers offered me a trip to an Amsterdam hospital as a treat.

Whatever! - Lister’s were a successful Woolwich based firm and I am very aware that if I hadn’t had that job in 1966 I wouldn’t be writing about them now – and I have only ever seen one mention of them in local media; from a granddaughter who had some relics which no-one seemed to want.

Does any Lister equipment still remain out there? I have a report of a ‘Great Spur Wheel’ fitted by them in the windmill at Shirley, outside Croydon in 1935. Is it still there?

 Lister Bros. ad 1914 map showing nightingale vale laundry sites

 The Dome of Discovery and the Skylon

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 makes 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 ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) WOODVILLE STREET PLANNED 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 Chevron Traffic Management who need to carry out maintenance work.

2. The Order will come into operation on 10th July 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 1 day. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

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 17 June 2024

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A PREMISES

LICENCE - LICENSING ACT 2003

Notice is given that: WE ARE THE FAIR LTD has applied for the Grant of a new Premises Licence for the following premises:

OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE, LONDON, SE10 9NN A record of this application may be inspected by appointment. Other persons may make representations to the Council on this application by no later than 12th July 2024.

• Prevention of Public Nuisance

• Public Safety

• Protection of Children from Harm

Any person who makes a false statement in connection with an application is liable on summary conviction to a maximum fine of £5,000.

It is proposed that the following licensable activities will take place at the premises:

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: 26/06/2024

Victoria Geoghegan

Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control

List of Press Advertisements - 26/06/2024

Publicity for Planning Applications

Applicant: Mr T. Covington 24/1166/HD

Site Address: 9 REYNOLDS PLACE, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 8SX

Development: Replacement of one existing timber casement window on first floor front elevation above front door. Replace window with bespoke timber sliding sash of the same proportion. Replacement will match timber glazing bar pattern of adjacent (original) sliding sash window on same property (front upstairs). Replacement of existing garage doors with one timber sliding sash, mirroring glazing bars window.

Conservation Area: RECTORY FIELD

Applicant: Blue Phoenix Developments 24/1255/F

Site Address: REAR OF, 136 GARAGES AT, WOODHILL, WOOLWICH, SE18

Development: Demolition of garages to the rear of 134 - 136 Woodhill, erection of two-storey, attached dwellinghouse on land adj to 136 Woodhill, and all associated works.

Conservation Area: WOOLWICH COMMON

Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/1462/HD

Site Address: 36 ADMIRAL SEYMOUR ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1SN

Development: Replacement of existing front door to original design and like-for-like replacement of external windows and rear door, and associated works. (amended reference number)

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Mr S. Golc 24/1518/F

Site Address: FLAT 5, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, 15 CALDWELL CLOSE, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 6FX

Development: Replacement of the existing 2.5 x 1.4m and 2m high bike store, as approved by Planning Permission ref 23/1057/F & 23/1246/L, with a proposed 2.1 x 4m bike store of the same height (2m). The new bike store will be located in the same spot and will be a self-standing structure, matching the existing bike stores in both colours (green) and material (metal), situated at the rear of the Government House

Conservation Area: WOOLWICH COMMON

Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/1564/F

Site Address: 107 ARSENAL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1JZ

Development: Replacement of existing windows and doors.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Mrs Old 24/1649/HD

Site Address: 65 ROSS WAY, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6RJ

Development: The replacement of all windows to a PVCu double glazed white cottage bar windows and the removal of existing conservatory to be replaced with a new conservatory.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Ms Koszerek 24/1670/HD

Site Address: 44 VIEWLAND ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 1PE

Development: Landscaping alterations in the rear garden to include the replacement of decking with associated alterations. (Part-Retrospective)

Conservation Area: PLUMSTEAD COMMON

Applicant: C/O Agent Gail's Ltd 24/1746/MA

Site Address: ELIZABETH LINE TICKET OFFICE, UNIT 1, VICTORY PARADE, PLUMSTEAD ROAD, WOOLWICH, SE18 6FL

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 22/02/2024, Ref: 23/3527/F for Alterations to shopfront including the installation of door guard protection either side of the entrance and the addition two louvres on the north elevation with associated external alterations, To allow:

- Relocation of the approved louvres to the glazing panels below where they have been approved;

- Reduction in size of the louvres to fit the glazing row.

Conservation Area: ROYAL ARSENAL WOOLWICH

Applicant: Knight Dragon Developments Limited 24/1818/MA

Site Address: 265 TUNNEL AVENUE, LONDON, SE10 0QE

Development: An application under S73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for a minor material amendment

to planning permission 14/2161/F dated 09/02/2015 for Temporary use of the land for 10 years for the construction of a Golf Driving Range, including mini golf / family amenity area, Club House, retail units, café, floodlighting, associated car and cycle parking, landscaping, infrastructure and public footpath diversion, to allow:

Vary Condition 2 (Expiration of Planning Permission) to extend the period of the temporary Golf Driving Range for a further 10-year period.

Update the plans listed under Condition 1 (Approved Drawings) with those amended to reflect the as built development.

Variation of the wording of the following conditions to compliance conditions with reference to details included within this application:

Condition 3 (Facing Materials), Condition 4 (Hard and Soft Landscaping), Condition 6 (External Lighting), Condition 8 (Artificial Light/Illumination Validation Test), Condition 14 (London Underground Infrastructure Protection), Condition 17 (Cycle Parking), Condition 18 (Refuse and Recycling), Condition 22 (Wayfinding and Signage Strategy), Condition 24 (Mini Golf Family Amenity Area), Condition 25 (Ecological Assessment Report), Condition 27 (Control of Invasive Plants), Condition 29 (Verification report), Condition 31 (surface water drainage scheme), Condition 32 (flood evacuation plan), Condition 33 (rainwater harvesting), Condition 34 (secure by design), Condition 35 (travel plan).

Deletion of the following conditions:

Condition 10 (Demolition and Construction Method Statement), Condition 13 (Construction Logistics Plan), Condition 20 (Monitoring Dust and Noise), Condition 21 (Archaeology), Condition 26 (Timing of vegetation clearance), Condition 28 (Contaminated Land), Condition 30 (Unsuspected contamination).

Applicant: C/O Agent Knight Dragon Developments Ltd 24/1874/F

Site Address: Land to the west of West Parkside and east of Millennium Way, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 Development: Retention of Temporary Decked Car Park for a period of up to 10 years.

Applicant: James Munro 24/1885/HD

Site Address: 9 TORMOUNT ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 1QD

Development: Proposed erection of 2 no. dormers to the rear roof and 2 no. conservation type roof lights to the front roof slope.

Conservation Area: PLUMSTEAD COMMON

Applicant: Mrs Ban 24/1909/HD

Site Address: 316 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6UE

Development: Replacement of 6 external windows, 4 on ground floor and 2 on 1st floor.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/1921/HD

Site Address: 2 PHINEAS PETT ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON,

Do you use your local ball court? If not, why?

The Royal Borough of Greenwich wants to help more residents get active by upgrading community ball courts across the borough.

Royal Greenwich is home to over 50 courts in parks, open spaces and on residential estates. These community areas can be used for ball sports such as football, basketball and netball. With the help of funding from the Football Foundation, the Council could transform a number of these valuable community assets into high quality, accessible and inclusive ‘Playzones’ to help more local people get fit and stay active.

If upgraded, these facilities will give residents access to a variety of new activities and help tackle inequalities in physical activity. We want to make these spaces free to access for as many people as possible.

The Council has identified the below five ball courts as most suitable for refurbishment:

• Abbey Wood Park

• Altash Gardens

• Briset Park

• Hawksmoor

• Kidbrooke Green Park

We’re also inviting residents to suggest other locations they think could be improved.

Playzones are for everyone, so the Council wants to know what facilities you would like to be included. We want to hear your views on potential upgrades, as well as which ball courts should be considered for refurbishment and what other improvements you’d like to see.

The Football Foundation’s Playzone funding has some requirements - to be eligible, the Council’s proposals for improvements must include:

• Lighting: installation of floodlights to enable year-round use and improve safety; the floodlights would be positioned to minimise the impact on neighbouring properties and operate on a timer

• Regular community sessions: some bookable sessions to allow regular community sessions to take place, giving local people access to coaching and organised sport

• Gated ball courts: gated access with a default PIN code for free time, and unique codes for booked sessions.