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Groundbreaking independent living service opens

We’ve opened an innovative new home for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Royal Hill Independent Living Service has been years in the making and and is the first independent living service of it’s kind in our borough. Aimed at enriching the lives of residents and helping to foster a sense of community and belonging, every element of this state-of-the-art, zero carbon facility has been designed to meet the needs of the people who will call it home.

The brand-new facility is a testament to the Council’s commitment to inclusivity, compassion, and dignity for all members of our community, and the vision that good health helps people live their best life. It is a place where people with learning disabilities can thrive, grow, and feel empowered to take control and lead fulfilling lives surrounded by care and respect.

The Council has worked in partnership with voluntary and community groups, as well as with Golden Lane Housing, a leading housing provider for people with learning disabilities and autistic people, to bring the scheme to life.

Read more: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/royal-hill-launch

August bank holiday bin collection dates

Following the bank holiday on Monday 26 August, bins in Royal Greenwich will be collected a day later than usual. Here are the collection dates for this period. Please put your bins out ready to be emptied before 6am on your revised collection day.

If we do not empty your bin on Saturday 31 August, we will collect it as soon as we can the following week. Stay up to date with changes to bin collections: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/bankholidaycollectiondates

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Eliza Frost

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By Eliza Frost

Creekside Festival returns 7 September

Back for its second year following a sellout for Creekside Festival 2023, AAJA –south east London’s much-loved community radio station, record label and hub – has announced 2024’s expansive edition.

Join the party on Saturday 7 September, with ﬁrst release tickets starting from £11. Expect a day-to-night gathering across 17 venues in Deptford, plus a special after party at The Albany as well.

AJAA co-founders and Creekside creators Samuel Willott and Owen Howells welcome 2024 headliners: rising Rinse FM DJ with the club-ready beats Freshta; south London local, garage queen Lady Passion; British minimal soul producer Steve O’Sullivan; and garage, house and breaks DJ Yosh. As well as Distant Planet, Marbles, Cheeky Soundsystem crews and more to be announced.

Saturday 7 September 2024

Tickets: From £11

Multiple venues in Deptford www.creeksidefestival.com

The Comedy of Errors

The Three Inch Fools are back; bringing Shakespeare’s shortest – and wildest – comedy to Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College.

The clock is ticking in this performance of The Comedy of Errors as the Fools rush to untangle one almighty mess. This is a somewhat ridiculous tale of long-lost twins, hysterical misunderstandings and endless mishaps. With musical instruments in hand, the Three Inch Fools present a joyous take on this Shakespearean rib-tickler.

Friday 13 September 2024, 7pm

Tickets: £18

Join in the Vitality Mile

Deptford charity Blueprint for All is inviting you to make a difference with movement this September and join them in the Vitality Westminster Mile.

Whether you’re a seasoned professional, or this is your ﬁ rst foray into the world of sports, you can take part on 21 September by walking, jogging or skipping in a family-friendly atmosphere. The mile starts in St James’ Park, with the ﬁ nish line by Buckingham Palace.

Tickets include free entry to the Vitality Wellness Festival in Green Park for an afternoon of fun, too, where you can mix and mingle, try your hand at the giant treadmill, or simply enjoy a smoothie or two.

You can participate solo or with a team, and everyone receives a medal for taking part.

Saturday 21 September 2024

Tickets: Adults £10, under 18s free with Blueprint for All bit.ly/3VambXd

Perspectives and Paradoxes

Themed around illuminating society’s challenges, works in the new exhibition ‘Perspectives and Paradoxes’ at Woolwich Centre Library are a call to engage with the urgent questions of our time.

The exhibition showcases works by local artists Pedro Borges, Jacob Andrew, Melike Durmus, and Sebastian Alabaster. Sebastian Alabaster says the show aims to “highlight the good and the bad of the human experience. We look to connect with others by expressing our varying stories”.

This exhibition promises a journey into the heart of our world’s hidden truths and challenges you to reﬂect on societal structures, empathise with diverse experiences, and confront the paradoxes that shape our humanity.

Monday 16 to Sunday 22 September 2024

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Open decks at Jazu

New to Deptford, Jazu has set up shop in SE8, and with it comes the announcement that every second Thursday of the month will be open decks night.

Hosted by Natty Kasambala, this is for anyone who “fancies themselves the next Paris Hilton”. You may not be an heiress, but you can take to the decks, simply message them to take part.

It’s any style, any genre for a 30-minute slot. All abilities are welcome, you just have to bring your own records for the vinyl-only set.

Thursday 12 September 2024 and every second Thursday of the month 2 Deptford High Street, SE8 4AF www.jazudrinks.com

International Slavery Remembrance Day

On 23 August 1791, enslaved people on the island of Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic) rose up against French colonial rule. The uprising played a crucial role in abolishing the transatlantic slave trade.

That’s why, on 23 August each year, the National Maritime Museum commemorates International Slavery Remembrance Day and the struggle for emancipation throughout the world.

On the day, there will be an opening ceremony at Queen’s House, which will see commemorations begin with a live performance from the Ethno Vox choir. Throughout the day, you can take part in a creative workshop making Adinkra foam block printing, learn how to play traditional African and Caribbean games with the Caribbean Social Forum, and there will be short story readings with historian and writer Stella Dadzie – among other sessions and workshops to mark the day.

Friday 23 August 2024, 11am to 5:15pm

Tickets: Free Romney Road, SE10 9NF www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on

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Interview: Bradley Hemmings

The artistic director of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival tells The Weekender about this year’s theme ‘All Change’ – and what to look out for in the lineup

“The place never stands still, and neither do we. We constantly want to reflect its evolving character,” says Bradley Hemmings, artistic director of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDIF), of the festival’s home.

For 2024, there is a programme of more than 50 free performances over 17 days, from Friday 23 August to Sunday 8 September, with the theme “All Change”.

The theme represents “the difficult times across the world and in the UK, with the cost-of-living crisis and also international uncertainty”, explains Bradley. “What we do is present is free events that are very much about conviviality, bringing people together, sharing moments of optimism.”

Embracing change has also been reflected in the way GDIF commissioned and developed the

programme this year. The free, outdoor events take place in unusual locations and “disrupt the rhythm of every day”.

Bradley says: “Th[e events] play an important part in the way in which people react and interact with the places in which they live. It’s a very distinctive programme, and the principle of change and making change is very much enshrined in all of it.

“What we also want to do is showcase the area at its most exhilarating and breathtaking.”

And with the festival approaching its 30th anniversary, change is something it has very much embraced over the years.

“We’ve had to constantly adapt and be resilient in the face of changing circumstances. Most recently, of course, that was the case during the pandemic when the festival continued but in a very different format,” says Bradley, who also references difficult financial times for many.

“What’s important is that there are these moments where people can come together,” he adds.

This year, Bradley offers the example of the opening night on 23 August, which will take place at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich with an incredible fusion of percussion and pyrotechnics.

He says: “That’s going to be a really exciting and uplifting opening to the festival and then, in a completely different way, we’ll be at the other end of the borough on the waterfront, near the AHOY Centre on the Greenwich/ Deptford border, with a new theatre production from the Actors Touring Company called Bodies of Water.

“It is being created with migrant communities in the borough and across London, and it’s a piece that’s very much enjoining audiences to use their powers of empathy to think about what lives people live as migrants in coming here, rather than with the dominant narrative that was very much the case during the election about boats rather than the people in them. I think that’s

going to be very powerful because it will be done on the foreshore as the tide advances and comes in.”

Bradley also highlights Life Lines by climbing and acrobatics artists Lézards Bleus, who specialise in daring parkour across buildings.

GDIF has a “real emotional connection for people”. Bradley explains how “when you walk along a street or in a park or in a public space that you think you know very well, you come to the festival and you see it in a completely different light with extraordinary visual imagery and storytelling going on all around you”.

Over the years, what GDIF has tried to do is express and reflect the evolving story of Greenwich and East London. “There have been such extraordinary changes in the physical landscape here, but also in the communities that make this part of the world our home,” explains Bradley.

He then reflects on the festival through the years, saying how it is “an amazing achievement for all the people who

supported this festival, our partners, but also the amazing team of people who worked on it over the years who care about it”.

Bradley adds: “But GDIF is still here, and it’s important that with free public culture, which is what we’re really all about, that you can’t take that for granted. You have to keep on working at it.

“Also, access to culture is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I’m really passionate about access to culture, particularly for people who might not be able to buy a ticket to go to a concert hall or the theatre, or even getting the bus to a place like that might be hard.

“For us, bringing culture to where people live, creating it with them and celebrating the most magnificent parts of what we’re all capable of, I think is really important.

“And that’s what I hope for the future – that we have another 30 years in us or more.”

Free – 23 August to 8 September 2024

festival.org/gdif-2024

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The Baker’s Art

New Deptford bakery makes 15 different flavours of sourdough

There’s nothing like the smell of fresh bread, but the creativity behind creating it can be a mystery to some. The Weekender meets the team behind the new Deptford spot to find out the art behind baking.

Emre Kubilay, owner of The Baker’s Art along with his two business partners, says the team have been working tirelessly to bake loaves, “which are always an essential item”, for the local people and businesses of Deptford.

And making bread is almost a 24-hour business for The Baker’s Art, which has been baking daily for almost four months since the shop opened.

They specialise in sourdough. The sourdough starter at the bakery is 15 years old – “the older a starter is, the tastier and happier the bread is”, Emre explains as he introduces his business partner, Murat Kantar, who is the bakery’s chef.

The third business partner,

Ilhak Konyar, works delivering the bakery’s goods to local businesses every morning.

Murat is a fifth-generation bakery chef – his dad was a baker, his grandfather was a baker, and so on –and it was his expertise that helped to start the business, says Emre.

And Murat adds: “I’ve always been interested in baking. I was 9 years old visiting the bakery and seeing my dad making things.”

He started as a professional bakery chef at 16 and then studied international management at university but always carried on making bread.

“I love making different types of bread,” says Murat. “I’m going to start making cornbread soon, too. I love creating something from scratch and trying different things.”

Emre explains how, in the bread market, there is often less variety in flavours of sourdough available but at The Baker’s Art, they have olive sourdough, walnut sourdough, beetroot sourdough, and then poppyseed, turmeric and other flavours, too.

“There are infinite ways to make different flavours of bread if you want to create more,” adds Murat, who enjoys experimenting.

Murat is also passionate about teaching other people how to bake bread, not wanting bakery as a career to die out. And running lessons or workshops is something the company could look to do in the future.

Baking is a long day when you are making over 15 types of sourdough, and the baking team also makes sweet treats and other items, which are available to buy at the

shop along with ready-made sandwiches and coffees, too.

Businesses can also buy wholesale breads from The Baker’s Art to sell in stores and in supermarkets.

They don’t use any preservatives to make their loaves, and the sourdough recipe uses good quality ingredients, including filtered water to make the dough taste the best it can be.

The bakery has also had good feedback from customers over the four months they have been open,

including a drawing from a customer of chef Murat.

The team at The Baker’s Art work hard, and work together, to bring their expertise in baking to serve local people.

Emre says the community has welcomed The Baker’s Art, and the bakery wants to give back as well –they give any breads they can’t sell in the shop, but are still good, to local charities and churches. Unit 1B Creekside, SE8 4SA thebakersart.co.uk

At The Heart Of The Community

CACT partner with All Saints Parish Church as chosen charity

Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) are delighted to enter into a partnership with All Saints Parish Church, Blackheath, as their chosen charity of the year.

CACT have been chosen by the church to be the focus of all their fundraising activities throughout 2024/25, providing vital support for the Trust to continue to deliver impactful work across the community.

As well as a number of fundraising events hosted by All Saints throughout the year, CACT will have a presence within the church, which stands in an iconic position on Blackheath Common, in the form of collection buckets, inviting visitors to make donations.

CACT Head of Fundraising, Chris Baker, said: “CACT has been working within the communities of southeast London for over thirty years, so we are delighted to be partnering

with another organisation that is so embedded within the local community.

“All Saints’ support will make such a difference to CACT and allow us to reach more individuals with our projects that engage young people, improve physical and mental wellbeing, and improve social cohesion.”

Meanwhile, Father Nicholas Cranfield, Vicar at All Saints, added: “I am incredibly pleased that we selected Charlton Athletic Community Trust as our parish charity for 2024/2025.

“I have heard about the vital work the trust does in the community and look forward to hearing more about

their work as the year progresses. We have some exciting fundraising events planned throughout the year at which I hope we are able to raise significant funds to keep this important work going.

“All Saints’ dates back to 1857; Charlton Athletic to 1905 and CACT to 1992. Together we can make a difference in our community,”

For more information on All Saints Parish Church, Blackheath, please

visit: allsaintsblackheath.org.uk

For more information on CACT’s five-year strategy for 2024-29, please visit: https://bit.ly/ CACTStrategy2024

The elusive Woolwich Navy, Gog & Magog - and explosive cargoes...

Mary Mills

This week I thought I would write about an elusive entity called ‘The Woolwich Navy’- which I’m not entirely sure I believe in, although I’m sure that some of it existed in some form or other. I have been unable to find any sensible references to it in the whole of Google Search or even any non-sensible reference.

Also my ever reliable -up till now - contacts in the Royal Arsenal history group have never heard of it either - so there you go!

I picked up a reference to it many years ago in a book called ‘London Ship Types’ by Frank Bowen published in 1938 by the East Ham Echo, cost 5/-. It describes a River – London River- which is so long gone that most people will have no idea that it ever existed and who think the River is busy if they see both a Clipper and a disco boat at the same time. It’s a river that I remember very vividly from my Gravesend childhood in the aftermath of the Second World

Shaw. Of course she is very much still around, although retired and preserved. In the book she is just an example of an active fire fighting vessel with her role in the blitz and at Dunkirk still ahead of her. There is no mention of her pumps, designed and built in Greenwich by Merryweather’s, or of her ability to put on a fine display out in the middle of the River of water pumped upwards by them.

War. My infant school must have been a mile from the River but our ears were still filled with the noise of it - but real river people kept themselves to themselves and didn’t speak to the likes of us.

Frank Bowen’s book describes many, many types of vessel the likes of which has long gone now, and are long forgotten. He lists 90 different types of boats and I’m sure some of them were pretty obscure even by the standards of the 1930s. I can see almost nothing on the list which I would recognise as a type of vessel which you might see today - except he mentions by name the Massey

So - the Woolwich Navy. Mr Bowen gives some details about its antecedents and its position as a ‘small Naval Service in its own right’. He says that when people see their boats, and wonder what they are, the flag is difficult to identify -’a blue Ensign defaced by gold guns’. What does he mean by ‘defaced’ or was there a different meaning to the word in the 1930s than there is now?

He says the boats themselves are painted black ‘with a buff funnel and a black top’. Also, ‘they do not carry their names painted on their bows like ordinary merchant ships

but man of war fashion, in very small letters on the stern which are generally difficult to read’.

They were apparently a totally separate and independent service with a headquarters on the Arsenal site and men would spend their entire careers in it from boys to captain. They were ‘generally men of a superior steady type who have a good job and looked after it well’. They wore ’a uniform of sorts’ - whatever that means! It’s described elsewhere as ‘blue serge .... with brass buttons”. He also says that “the discipline is not to be compared with either the Army or the Navy’. I think that means they were a scruffy bunch who did what they liked. There is the distinct impression that the actual Navy was a bit sniffy about them.

The work though could be dangerous and for the risks they took, it’s said that these sailors enjoyed benefits almost unknown elsewhere on 19th century waterways - job security, sick pay, hospital care, and a pension.

Mr Bowen says that the Ordnance Department had maintained a fleet of some sort ‘from time immemorial’ at various ports and naval bases. The boats themselves were all owned by the War Department or what we would now call the Ministry of Defence. So this was a national organisation with its headquarters in the Arsenal. They must have operated all around the country and I don’t suppose for one moment that government boats operating out of - let’s say Portsmouth or Liverpool - would refer to their personnel as part of the ‘Woolwich Navy’. So I guess it was just a term used on the Thames and maybe at the same time having a bit of a laugh at these Woolwich based sailors.

Clearly locally, the Arsenal will have needed an office to manage service vessels coming and going on all sorts of river related tasks. On the River itself a large fleet of sailing barges was needed to carry ammunition and stores of all sorts from Woolwich to places like Shoeburyness. Although I was

under the impression that lots of this work would have been done by the ordinary commercial vessels of the day. However Mr Bowen seems to imply that the War Department had its own fleet of barges –although it is not easy to identify them in the many, many web sites which cover these barges. Some web sites mention a War Office department called ‘RASK’ – what does that stand for? ‘Royal Arsenal .. ships? Shipping’ ? and I have no idea about what that ‘K’ is for... Does someone out there know?

There were links with the Royal Engineers. Mr.Bowen says that this Woolwich organisation was very successful in regard to submarine mines. He explains that after the American Civil War when such mines ‘had proved their worth’ the Royal Engineers were put in charge of all the mining defences of the country... ’for the Navy regarded the mine as an ungentlemanly weapon‘. The submarine mining vessels were stationed at various points along the coast and practised mining

owners renamed her ‘William Radcliffe’. She apparently went for scrapping, maybe in 1959 – but it’s a bit unclear.

and counter mining on commercial waterways. The Navy however ‘was quite unprepared for the pitch of perfection which the German Navy had brought that to by 1914.’

He says that the War Department boats in the 1930s were very busy transporting guns from Woolwich down to Shoeburyness and other such places as well as handing the movement of stores, food and occasionally troops. I thought that the big guns and so on were taken out on special transports from the slipways which have recently been restored on the Woolwich riverside (See https:// www.facebook.com/search/ top?q=woolwich%20barge%20slip).

So, was that work done by the ‘Woolwich Navy’ – two special barges fitted with railway lines and with specially shaped bows and called ‘Gog’ and ‘Magog’ after the giants who guard the ‘City of London?

Magog was built in 1876 in Limehouse. Gog was much

larger to carry even bigger guns, but also built in Limehouse in 1885. There are considerable remains of specially built berths at Shoeburyness.

Only one vessel is mentioned in connection with the Woolwich Navy in Bowen’s article. This is the Sir Evelyn Wood which he says was ‘well known on the river for over 40 years’. She was built in Paisley in 1896 as a ‘steel screw steamer on the lines of a superior coaster’ and the ‘majority of her work was the carriage of big guns’.

She was still working in the 1930s when Bowen wrote ‘which is a fine tribute to her original construction and the way she’s been maintained by the army‘. I’m sure there must have been others boats as well as this particular vessel - but they are not mentioned.

Sir Evelyn Wood survived the Second World War and was then used for dumping ammunition in the Irish Sea. She was disposed of in the 1950s and new

It seems to be most likely that most of the vessels used were sailing barges and one is actually still around which was built specially for the War Department as late as 1931. She was built locally by H.A. Oliver at Albion Wharf in Rotherhithe to carry chemicals – gunpowder, explosives, whatever was neededbetween Woolwich Arsenal and the Waltham Abbey Chemical Works.

They were both Government institutions and there was a great deal of care taken in case of accident. Waltham Abbey works itself had originally been a gunpowder mill and as much transport as possible on site was undertaken by water in order to cut down the risk of explosions from any form of sparking from metal or stone roadways. Visitors today can see the network of internal canals.

Lady of the Lea could carry up to 500 barrels of explosives in the main hold which would have been principally cordite. She was built small enough to pass under bridges of the River Lea and then cross the Thames, going between the two works. That involved both canal, and open river navigation, so she was equipped

for both horse towing and sail operation. This was dangerous work and there were all sorts of regulations for these barges loaded with explosives. Bridges were closed by the police as they passed under them. She had a crew consisting of a master and three men, who wore ‘Woolwich Navy’ blue serge uniforms.

Eventually, In 1943, the production of cordite was transferred away from Waltham Abbey and Lady of the Lea was fitted with a petrol engine by the Royal Navy. At the end of the war she was withdrawn from service and sold in 1946.

She was based in Sittingbourne but then she was converted to a houseboat and moored at Tring. In 1990 a new owner rebuilt and re-rigged her as a Thames sailing barge. She has since been used for private charters, and is based in Faversham, and races regularly in the Thames barge races.

If you go to the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey – and you really should go at once if you haven’t been already - there is a display about Lady of the Lea at work on the Lea and the Thames.

There is also a model of the barge in the London Canal Museum – which is somewhere else you should go at once, it’s at Kings Cross.

 War department steamer attached to Woolwich Arsenal

 Lady of the Lea explosives barge

 Thames path - site of gridiron to load big guns on to Gog and Magog barges

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1)

GREENWICH HIGH ROAD PLANNED BUS LANE 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 JSM Group Services Limited who need to install new utility services.

2. The Order will come into operation on 21st August 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 18 days. 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 suspend the bus lane and prohibit vehicles from waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Greenwich High Road from the junction of Greenwich South Street to the junction of Straightsmouth.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation no traffic will be diverted. 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 24 June 2024 INTERNAL REF - PL / LA471388 FN681 / Lic. No: 71351

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) LASSELL STREET PLANNED 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 Southern Gas Network who need to install a new service.

2. The Order will come into operation on 19th August 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 5 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

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.

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 31 May 2024

INTERNAL REF - PL / LA471697 FN673 / Lic. No: 71176 ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) SWINGATE LANE PLANNED 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 Thames Water who need to carry out works on a sewer cover replacement.

2. The Order will come into operation on 23rd August 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 1 days. 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 Swingate Lane at the junction of Flaxton Road, and to prohibit parking from opposite 42 – 48 Kirkham Street and side of 93 and 102 Flaxton Road in Kirkham Street.

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 12 June 2024

INTERNAL REF - PL / LA472503 FN679 / Lic. No: 71268

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) BUSHMOOR CRESCENT 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 Thames Water who need to carry out works on a service pipe repair.

2. The Order will come into operation on 28th August 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 5 days. 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 16 July 2024

INTERNAL REF - PL / LA473475 FN485 / Lic. No: 71547

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) BARDSLEY LANE

PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

2. The Order will come into operation on 27th August 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 4 days. 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, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Bardsley Lane outside 9 to 17

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 16 July 2024

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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)

Town & Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 2007 (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 22 days of the date of this notice.

Please quote the appropriate reference number.

Date: 14/08/2024

Victoria Geoghegan

Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control

List of Press Advertisements - 14/08/2024

Publicity for Planning Applications

Applicant: L.Land Group Management Ltd & JBR Investors Ltd 23/4073/F

Site Address: 2B RATHMORE ROAD, CHARLTON, LONDON, SE7 7QW

Development: Description of development:

Full planning application for demolition of the existing building and redevelopment of the site to provide a mixed-use development comprising residential units (Use Class C3) and storage facility (Use Class B8) with associated amenity space, cycle and refuse storage. The proposal affects the setting of a listed building (Fossdene Primary SchoolGrade II).

Description for consultation:

Full planning application for demolition of the existing building (466 square metres of Use Class B2 Industrial) and redevelopment of the site to provide a mixed-use development comprising 20 (twenty) residential units (1291 square metres of Use Class C3) and storage facility (476 square metres of Use Class B8) with associated amenity space, cycle and refuse storage. The proposal affects the setting of a listed building (Fossdene Primary School - Grade II).

(This re-consultation is due to the submission of revised drawing, reports, and further information as set out in the submitted revised drawing schedule and revised list of submission documents)

Conservation Area: Adjacent or Affecting a listed building

Applicant: Mr & Mrs Ogilvie 24/1769/MA

Site Address: LAND R/O 1 ANNESLEY ROAD, KIDBROOKE, LONDON, SE3 0JX

Development: An application submitted under section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for a minor material amendment in connection with the planning permission dated 06/12/2023 for An application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for a minor material amendment in connection with the planning permission dated 27/07/2023 (Reference: 23/0483 MA) for the demolition of existing outbuildings and erection of a single dwellinghouse together with hard and soft landscaping, car and cycle parking and bin storage to allow: - Amendment to Condition 2 (Approved Drawings), to allow: Amendment to Condition 2 (Approved Drawings) to revise basement lightwells with walk-on skylights, replace approved two garage doors with one single garage door, alteration to materiality and colour scheme, introduction of side door to garage, revised width of entrance gate, alteration to ground floor laundry and WC windows and other associated works. [reconsultation] [revised description of changes]

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH

Applicant: M Thompson 24/2110/HD

Site Address: 7 KING GEORGE STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8QJ

Development: Replacement and repair works to roof of dwelling, tiles replaced like-for-like and associated works. (This application affects the Listed Building group of 3-27 King George Street and is within the Martime Greenwich World Heritage Site Buffer Zone)

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: Gunnery Works Ltd 24/2183/F

Site Address: Land to rear of Gunnery Works, 9-11 Gunnery Terrace, Woolwich, SE18 6SW

Development: Temporary planning permission for a period of 5 years for the siting of 30 no. shipping containers (15 containers in length, double-stacked) for use for light industrial//office/maker space (Use Class E) and the siting of a food truck.

Conservation Area: ROYAL ARSENAL WOOLWICH

Applicant: Mr & Mrs Phillip 24/2213/F

Site Address: 170 OLD WOOLWICH ROAD, LONDON, SE10 9PR

Development: Change of use of upper levels of the application site into a 4 bedroom HMO (Use Class C4) with associated refuse and window alterations and other external works.

Conservation Area: EAST GREENWICH

Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2524/F

Site Address: 65, 65A, 67 & 67A GRANBY ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1EH

Development: Like-for-like replacement of windows with white uPVC double-glazed windows with astragal glazing bars, replacement of existing communal and flat front doors with bespoke timber doors matching original design, like-for-like replacement of rear doors, and associated works.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Ms A Palamountain 24/2596/HD

Site Address: 61 MAZE HILL, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8XQ

Development: Construction of a loft extension including a juliette balcony and 3 roof lights

Conservation Area: GREENWICH PARK

Applicant: Mrs Kilfeather 24/2677/HD

Site Address: 10 ASHRIDGE CRESCENT, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3EB

Development: Construction of a single storey side extension and conversion of garage to a habitable room.

Conservation Area: SHREWSBURY PARK ESTATE

Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2689/HD

Site Address: 50 WHINYATES ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6NN

Development: Replacement of windows, front and back door.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2733/HD

Site Address: 368 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6UF

Development: Replace existing front door with Climatec Period 1930's Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Publicity for Listed Building Consent.

Applicant: M Thompson 24/2111/L

Site Address: 7 KING GEORGE STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8QJ

Development: Replacement and repair works to roof of dwelling, tiles replaced like-for-like and associated works.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Listed Building: Grade 2

Applicant: Mr H & Mrs P Zinnureyin Lokanta 24/2136/L

Site Address: 11-13 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Installation of uplighters to the front facade (retrospective)

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Listed Building: Grade 2

Publicity For Advertisements.

Applicant: Hefaure GW Ltd 24/1123/A

Site Address: 25 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Retrospective installation of alluminium composite externally illuminated fascia panel and alluminium composite internally illuminated projecting sign and internal digital window sign.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: Pho Trading Ltd 24/2052/A

Site Address: SAN MIGUEL, 18 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Installation of x1 Internally Illuminated Projecting Hanging Sign, x1 Externally Illuminated - Painted Sign-written Fascia Panel, New slime line led light trough and x1 Internally Illuminated Wall mounted menu box. This may affect the setting of the surrounding Grade II Listed Buildings.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: Asda Stores Ltd 24/2505/A

Site Address: 123 Greenwich South Street, London, SE10 8NX

Development: Installation of 1no. new projecting hanging sign with trough light. (This may impact the setting of the Grade 2 Listed Building at 90 & 92 Greenwich South Street).

Conservation Area: adjacent to Ashburnham Triangle

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199 new council homes for Greenwich Peninsula

Delighted tenants have moved into 100 newly completed council homes in Greenwich Peninsula, where a further 99 council homes are currently being built.

The Council bought the properties at Greenwich Millennium Village with a combination of its own funds and a grant from the Greater London Authority.

This purchase forms part of a commitment to create 1,750 homes to be let to local people on the Housing Register.

New resident Abiola, who with his daughter had been living in temporary accommodation for over a year, said their home had brought “a lot of improvement… you feel more peaceful, it makes you feel like you want to engage more with the community around you.” Other residents spoke of

nearby transport allowing them to get to work easily and of their children making friends in the development.

Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Councillor Anthony Okereke, said: “The purchase of these 199 beautiful homes shows that we are grabbing every opportunity to tackle the urgent housing crisis, whether that’s the hundreds of homes we’re building through Greenwich Builds or the properties we’ve purchased here at Greenwich Millennium Village”

Of the first 100 homes 10% are wheelchair adapted, and all the properties have underfloor heating and sustainable technology including solar panels and green roofs.

The 99 homes currently under construction are due for completion in 2026.

Read more: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/199-greenwich-peninsula

Have your say on the Council’s Gambling Policy

We are consulting on our updated Statement of Gambling Policy and want to hear your thoughts and suggestions. Have your say until Sunday 15 September: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/gambling-consultation

Get on the list

First, you’ve got to be on the housing waiting list to join the scheme. If you’re not, register an application online at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/homes

Find your applicant number

It will be on the letter you’ve already had from the Royal Borough of Greenwich about the new scheme. You’ll need that number and the reference number of the property you’re after, which will be on the advert.

Pick out your ideal property by looking in Greenwich Info or regularly checking the website: royalgreenwich.gov. uk/homes. Click on your preference on the website. If you don’t have a computer, you can always use one for free at either The Eltham or Woolwich Centre or a local library.

Apply in one of three ways

• Text bidding is now available and the number to use is 07786207913. For further information please see page 2, or

• Via the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s website royalgreenwich.gov.uk/homes or

• Phone the 24-hour hotline 020 8921 4340. It’s an automatic push-button system and calls will be charged at the normal local ratell be charged at the normal local rate

HOW TO BID FOR ADVERTISED PROPERTIES BY TEXT

If you would like to bid by text, please use the following Text Bidding Number: 0778 620 7913 and type: CBL, the property reference number and your applicant number.

The property reference will be on the advert and your applicant number is on the letter we sent to you when you registered for housing.

A successful bid will look like this: CBL 179104 12191

You will need to do a separate text for each property you wish to bid for and the text is charged at your mobile provider’s standard rate. You will receive a text response to confirm your bid within 5 minutes.

If you are unable to bid for advertised properties and have no one that can do so for you please contact the Allocations team on 020 8921 2941 and we will help you with bidding or will bid on your behalf. If you are in temporary accommodation, then please contact your Temporary Accommodation Officer for help with this.

CBL BIDDING

Please be aware that users must now enter the date of birth of the main applicant when logging into this site.

royalgreenwich.gov.uk/homes

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BIDDING FOR PROPERTIES

People on the Housing register are able to bid for all properties, regardless of their banding. You must be eligible for the size of property and bids will be considered in the following order:

First Band A, followed by Band B1/B2 both in priority date order. Those in Band C will then be considered in registration date order.

Please note that there will still be some properties with age restrictions so only people of this age group can apply for these.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

A is for applicants in unsatisfactory housing, including people moving due to demolition and those under occupying their homes.

For information or assistance Contact our Allocations Team on: 020 8921 2941 or email: housing-allocations@ royalgreenwich.gov.uk

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

the Under Occupation scheme

If you are living in a Council property that is too big for you, we can help you to move to somewhere smaller. The Council will pay your removal costs, and £350 for each bedroom gained. To join the scheme you must be willing to move to a home with two bedrooms less than you have now:

3 bedroom to a 1 bedroom home

3 bedroom parlour / 4 bedroom to a 1 or 2 bedroom home

5 bedroom to a 3 bedroom (or smaller) home

For more information contact the Project Team on: 020 8921 2671

BAND

B1 or B2 is for applicants the Royal Borough of Greenwich must prioritise according to the law, particularly homeless people, and others with an urgent need to move for medical or welfare reasons.

C is for all applicants on the housing register, including those that are in priority bands A and B1/B2.

24-hour hotline

Hyde Housing Association

Peabody Trust

The current edition closes on Sunday August 18th, with the subsequent

ALL households can bid for all types of property subject to meeting the bedroom size and any medical requirements.

Housing Content

Greenwich Council (in foyer)

6 Mitre Passage, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 0ER

Greenwich Theatre

Crooms Hill, London SE10 8ES

West Greenwich House

141 Greenwich High Road London SE10 8JA

West Greenwich Library

146 Greenwich High Road, London SE10 8NN

Royal Standard

67 Pelton Road, London SE10 9AH

Forum@Greenwich Trafalgar Road, London SE10 9EQ

Greenwich University

Cooper Building, Students Union, King William Walk, London SE10 9JH

Greenwich Communications Centre

164 Trafalgar Road Greenwich, London SE10 9TZ

Maze Hill Station

Tom Smith Close, London SE10 9XG

Blackheath Library

Old Dover Road, Blackheath SE3 7BT

Westcombe Park Station

Station Crescent, Westcombe Park, London SE3 7EQ

Blackheath Newbridge Working Mens Club

22 Charlton Road, Blackheath SE3 7HG

Waitrose

Dreadnought Wharf, Victoria Parade, 1 Thames Street, Greenwich, London SE10 9FR

Greenwich Square Health Centre

12 Lambarde Square SE10 9GB

Woodland Surgery

Woodland Walk SE10 9UB

Vanbrugh Dental Centre

Vanbrugh Hill SE10 9HQ

Greenwich Launderette

174 Trafalgar Road SE10 9TZ

Slade Library

Erindale SE18 2QQ

Woolwich Community Centre

Leslie Smith Square SE18 4DW

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Station Road, London SE18 4QH

Clockhouse Community Centre

Defiance Walk, Woolwich Dockyard Estate SE18 5QL

Waterfront Leisure Centre

Woolwich High Street SE18 6DL

McDonald’s 56-58 Powis Street SE18 6LQ

Greenwich University 54-58 Powis Street SE18 6NL

Woolwich Centre

35 Wellington Street SE18 6PW

Post Room Woolwich Service Centre

Wellington Street SE18 6PW

Town Hall

Wellington Street SE18 6PW

Woolwich Centre Library 21 Love Lane SE18 6QT

Brookhill Children’s Centre

130 Brookhill Road SE18 6UZ

Charlton Athletic Football Club

Reception The Valley, Floyd Road SE7 8BL

Time Court

Woodland Terrace SE7 8DD

Charlton Library

Charlton House, Charlton Road SE7 8RE

Gllab Work and Learn Centre

Old library Calderwood Street SE18 6QW

The Point

47 Woolwich New Road, SE18 6EW

Smile With Pride Dental Care Ltd 81A Powis Street SE18 6JB

Equitable House

General Gordon Place SE18 6AB

St.Marks Medical Centre 24 Wrottesley Road SE18 3EP

Plumstead Library

Plumstead High Street SE18 1JL

Greenwich Community College 95 Plumstead Road SE18 7DQ

Glyndon Community Centre 75 Raglan Road SE18 7LB

Abbey Wood Community Group 4 Knee Hill, SE2 0YS

Abbey Wood Library Eynsham Drive SE2 9PT

Thamesmead Leisure Centre

Thamesmere Drive SE28 8RE

Gallions Housing Association 90 Titmuss Avenue SE28 8HL

Conway Medical Centre 44 Conway Road SE18 1AH

Basildon Road Surgery

111 Basildon Road SE2 0ER

Heronsgate Medical Centre

Goosander Way SE28 0ER

Middle Park Community Centre

150 Middle Park Avenue SE9 5SD

Vista Childrens Centre

Middle Park Avenue SE9 5SD

City Point Concierge Suite

Campbell Court, Meadowside, Kidbrooke SE3 9XT

Kidbrooke Dental Centre

Telemann Square SE3 9YR

Briset Corner Surgery 591 Westhorne Avenue SE9 6JX

Eltham Centre & Eltham Library

2 Archery Road SE9 1HA

Cold Harbour Library

Wiliam Barefoot Drive SE9 3AY

Cold Harbour Leisure Centre

Chapel Farm Road SE9 3LX

New Eltham Library

Southwood Road SE9 3QT

Eltham Community Hospital

30 Passey Place SE9 5DQ

52 Well Hall Road

52 Well Hall Road SE9 6SH