Inside Shaparak Khorsandi’s scatterbrain
The comic talks authenticity and ADHD ahead of her upcoming gig
Pride Ambition Respect Together
Open Morning Saturday 12th October 10am–1pm
Achieving excellence
Excellence and justice are our mission at Plumstead Manor. We are proud to be a school at the heart of our community, committed to educating confident young people who will succeed and flourish in our fully inclusive school.
At Plumstead Manor the core values of pride, ambition, respect and togetherness allow the school to release the full potential of every young person to go beyond what they ever thought possible, educating confident and successful young people who will change the world for the better.
We have a dedicated team of staff responsible for making sure that students are settled, stretched and challenged from the moment they join us on their 7 year secondary school journey, providing constant opportunities for them to learn, grow and develop as global citizens.
Support is personalised for students, giving each of them access to a broad and balanced curriculum across academic and vocational pathways, enhanced by a wealth of enrichment opportunities.
Plumstead Manor School pride themselves on their transition programme, welcoming their Year 7 students to their unique learning community. The school has a dedicated team of staff responsible for making sure that students are settled, stretched and challenged from the moment they join the school and is the basis on which they open up an extensive range of opportunities for them to learn, grow and succeed.
Support is personalised for all students, giving each of them access to a broad and balanced curriculum across academic and vocational pathways, enhanced by a wealth of enrichment activities. Throughout the school we have the highest expectations for all our students, so that we empower them to thrive and flourish in their future lives. High quality teaching, in a safe and friendly environment are the foundations for every young person to achieve their dreams and experience the joy of learning each and every day.
Regular curriculum, information and parents evenings and forums give parents and carers the opportunity to work in partnership with teachers to support their child’s learning and steer the future of the school. Their online communication platform ‘My Child At School’ ensures that parents are able to access all information regarding their son or daughter’s timetable, homework, attendance, behaviour and attainment along with scheduling appointments and contacting teachers.
Alongside accomplishments within their learning community, they are also proud of the contributions staff and students make within the wider community. The school participates in a variety of activities from fund raising for charity, regular donations to food banks to Literacy, Science, Maths and Performing Arts programmes run in collaboration with primary schools in the community who would not otherwise have access to specialist equipment and teaching.
Our deep commitment to the academic development of each student lies alongside our expectations for good manners, strong discipline and the development of rounded young people. We are a diverse, inclusive and harmonious community, and celebrate the many differences that make up our whole in pursuit of excellence for all our young people.
Learning opportunities extend beyond the classroom with all students able to participate in a plethora of extra curricular activities, residential trips and visits alongside numerous workshops and performances. Student voice is embedded within the culture of the school with leadership opportunities for all, regardless of age or ability.
Our open day is Saturday 12th October 2024 from 10am to 1pm Open mornings are every Tuesday during term time, 9am to 10:30am, until 22nd October 2024
The school embraces a fully inclusive ethos which necessitates that they reflect, listen, change and adapt to meet the needs of all their students. All young people are provided with opportunities to maximise their aspirations. Equality of opportunity is underpinned by equitable provision where each young person has access to what they need to be the very best version of themselves.
Please see our website www.plumsteadmanor.com for further Information about the school
Facilities at the school include a performing arts theatre complex with music, dance and drama studios. All buildings have been refurbished and are open to students from 8.00am until 5.00pm offering a wide variety of sports, performing arts and special interest clubs to further cultivate the highest expectations for academic scholarship, outstanding behaviour and personal development.
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Net making workshop
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Lewisham Writes
Things to hold other things: artist Jo Ball is hosting a net making workshop at Art in Perpetuity Trust Studios and Gallery. The workshop uses nets as metaphor and material to hold what is special and precious. Experience a hands-on approach to the workshop as you are thoughtfully guided through simple net-making techniques. You will make a small sample net to take home, too. All are welcome, and no particular craft skills or previous experience is needed. The event is recommended for those aged 10 and over. Materials will be provided on the day, along with some refreshments.
Date: Saturday 5 October 2024
Tickets: Free APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, SE8 4SA www.unaskedpossibility.art/events/ apt-workshop-nets
Lewisham writer Amber Obasi is hosting a series of free creative writing workshops every Saturday at Downham Library as part of Lewisham Writes by Spread the Word. These sessions are for people who are already writing or who would like to give writing a go. There will be six workshops that explore deep listening and the sounds around us. Amber currently lives in Deptford and is largely interested in time and practices that seek to unpeel and interrogate our relationship to it.
Dates: 12 October to 23 November 2024. Tickets: Free Downham Library, 7-9 Moorside Road, Bromley, BR1 5EP www.spreadtheword.org.uk/ events/lewisham-writes-2024
Wonders in the Deep
A highly anticipated event in the calendar at Charlton House, the Horn Fair is back for 2024, and you can expect that things have stepped up a level. A fun-filled day
that promises stalls, music, food and drink, activities and plenty more. So grab the kids, grab your friends, and enjoy a day out in the gardens.
Date: Sunday 20 October 2024
Tickets: Free Charlton House, Charlton Road, SE7 8RE www.greenwichheritage.org/events/ horn-fair-2024
Under 5s Rhymes and Stories
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall, Jack and Jill went up the hill, Little Bo Peep and her sheep… Join in with nursery rhymes, songs and stories every Saturday at 10:30am for half an hour at the Deptford Lounge. This morning activity is ideal for children under 5 and their families – note, they will expect dancing. So get moving each weekend to the tune of family fun. There’s no need to book – just meet at The Library.
Dates: Every Saturday Tickets: Free 9 Giffin Street, Deptford SE8 4RJ deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/event/under-5srhymes-and-stories
Royal Museums Greenwich presents Wonder in the Deep, with stories from the world-famous underwater archaeologist, Mensun Bound. Bound is the marine archaeologist who was the Director of Exploration on the team that discovered Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. He has found a wide variety of objects –from skeletons and sewing pins to cannonballs and peacocks – all preserved in shipwrecks that are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years old, each with their own story to tell. His new book Wonders in the Deep, written with journalist Mark Frary, explores the maritime history of the world from 3,000 BC to the present day using the objects he has discovered – such as Phoenician fertility statues and Corinthian helmets. This event will take place in the Cutty Sark’s theatre, where you can hear more about Bound’s adventures and the stories behind the many and varied objects he has discovered, as well as the shipwrecks they were found on. Perfect for those with an interest in The Blue.
Date: Thursday 10 October 2024
Tickets: £8, free for members Cutty Sark, King William Walk, SE10 9HT www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/cuttysark/wonders-deep
Lady Nade Sings
Nina Simone
Visit Blackheath Halls this October and enjoy a celebration of Nina Simone’s life and enduring legacy. Lady Nade Sings Nina Simone sees Lady Nade on vocals, with Chris Jones on double bass, Holly Carter on guitar, Ruth Brown on piano, Matt Brown on drums, and Sophie Stockham on saxophone. Renowned for her vocal prowess, Lady Nade will perform a high-octane show that is a heartfelt homage to Nina Simone, recreating the transformative sound that blended popular tunes of the era into that distinctive fusion of jazz, blues, gospel and folk music.
Date: Saturday 19 October 2024
Tickets: £24
23 Lee Road, Blackheath, SE3 9RQ www.blackheathhalls.com/whatson/lady-nade-sings-nina-simone
Horn Fair returns to Charlton House
Shaparak Khorsandi takes Scatterbrain on tour
The comic talks to Eliza Frost about how ‘serious’ can be funny, changing culture and why this is her ‘most authentic’ show yet
“Scatterbrain is the most successful show I’ve done in terms of relatability,” says stand-up comic, writer and keynote speaker Shaparak Khorsandi.
The show is coming to Blackheath Halls on 27 October and looks over her diagnosis of ADHD, as well as a trip back through her early years as a comic.
“It’s been a lot of fun to do something so relatable,” she says, of connecting with other people who have ADHD.
The show also looks back at Shaparak’s youth as someone who was in her 20s in the 90s, the time of ladette culture, and how it is so different to her children’s experiences now.
“I think I’m being a really, really responsible mum by talking to my son about consent, and he looks at me and goes, ‘No, we should think about enthusiastic consent, because consent is not enough’,” she explains. “But consent in my day wasn’t even really spoken about.”
“This doesn’t like comedy fodder,” she laughs. “I often talk about very serious things, but I think the more serious something is, the funnier it can be talking about it. It doesn’t belittle it; it makes it more human.”
But it is that relatability, and authenticity, that Shaparak now feels mostly as a result of her ADHD diagnosis.
“I’ve been doing comedy for a long time, but I feel that I’m finally doing it for me. I feel like I am much more authentic than I have been in the past, where my neurodivergence meant that I locked myself away and I would do impressions of what I thought a stand-up comic should be,” she explains.
Scatterbrain is the most herself, she says, and that is why people relate: “You could be talking about potatoes, and if you’re yourself, people will relate.”
Being diagnosed with ADHD also changed her approach to comedy, too. She says it has “cleared out a lot of the clutter, a lot of my barriers, and I feel much more comfortable in my skin”.
“It’s a peace with yourself,” she adds. “So even if you’re not feeling confident, it’s okay just being yourself, your actual living, breathing, fallible, idiotic self.”
Of comedy in the capital, and in general, Shaparak says it tends to be quite inward-looking now, compared with when she started out. Comics used to be quite outward-looking and used to comment on society.
“I mean, look at me, I’m doing a show about ADHD,” she says of how the circuit has changed since she started as a comic.
And there are so many more women
on the circuit now, she notes, adding: “The biggest change is how being not white and being a woman was such a rarity when I started, and now it’s just really normal. So that’s changed. You are welcome, everybody,” and laughs.
But “culture moves forward”, and the most important thing as an older comic is to keep abreast with what the young ones are talking about and how mediums move forward, says Shaparak.
She adds: “The last thing you want to be is that grumpy old geezer comic going, ‘Oh, you can’t say nothing anymore.’
“If you love comedy, you have to keep up with how culture changes. You have to move with the times. I’m a massive comedy nerd, and I get so excited when I hear a buzz about a young, newer comic that everyone’s talking about; I’ve got to go and see them.”
What hasn’t changed since Shaparak became a comic is her excitement and interest in the art form. “And it is an art form,” she adds.
Shaparak Khorsandi brings Scatterbrain to Blackheath Halls on Sunday 27 October 2024 –tickets cost £17.
23 Lee Road, Blackheath, SE3 9RQ www. blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/ shaparak-khorsandi-scatterbrain
review: Pho
Editor Eliza Frost visits the new location for the Vietnamese street food, right in the heart of Greenwich
There aren’t many things cosier than a big bowl of steaming hot, soupy noodles to heat you from the inside on a cold night.
And just in time for winter, Pho has opened in Greenwich to give you a warming hug.
The Vietnamese street food
restaurant has locations all over the country, and has now found a home on Greenwich Church Street.
Inside, the restaurant was packed out, with dim lighting hanging above tables, couples were coming together over broth and friends laughing while splitting spring rolls. It seemed as though
Pho had always been here.
Starting with our drinks, the cocktail menu sees classics with a Vietnamese twist. It was the Spicy Lychee Margarita – tequila, fresh lime
and
and the
juice, lychee syrup
Thai chillies (£8.50) –
Prickly Pear Punch – Havana Club rum, freshly juiced pear, ginger and lemon
(£8.50) – for this table of two. The welcome spin on each of these drinks elevated an already tasty cocktail.
First of the food to the table was the prawn crackers, Bánh phồng tôm, served with sweet chilli sauce (£3.95). The perfect crunch, ideal for scooping up the sauce, which found that ideal balance of honeyed spice – and even better to dip in broth a little later in the dinner.
For sharing starters, we tried
the crispy pork spring rolls, Chả giò, which came with lettuce and herbs to wrap another layer around the roll, and dips of nước chấm and peanut sauce (£7.50). We were recommended to wrap the spring roll before dipping it to add freshness, and it was a great tip.
Nước chấm is a traditional Vietnamese sauce that is a mix of fish sauce and citrus, which brought a tang, and the peanut dip was sticky and glossy, which added richness to the palette.
Next, the chicken wings, Cánh gà:
these were seasoned and crispy in a way you hope all chicken wings will be (£8.25), served with a sriracha sauce that made your lips tingle – in the way you hope all siracha sauces will do.
Before we moved on to noodles, we had to try a bottle of the Saigon beer (£4.95). It’s a staple in Vietnamese beer, and the perfect accompaniment to our main dishes.
For my main, I had the curry noodle soup with chicken (£12.95) and added green beans (£1.50).
Pho describes it as the marriage of its classic Vietnamese curry and a steaming bowl of noodle soup – perfect for me.
I had it with thick phở noodles, but you also have the option to take it with vermicelli-style bún noodles, too.
Served with the noodles is a plate of toppings and herbs, so you can make the bowl bespoke to your tastes. For me, this meant avoiding the coriander (if you know, you know) but throwing in all the beansprouts, mint and squeezes of lime. Crunchy,
fresh and delicious, and served with a broth bib to avoid spillages.
As I sip the last of my Saigon, soupy noodles devoured, I sit and feel that last cosy squeeze from Pho before slipping back off out into the autumn chill.
The location is available for bookings, walk-ins and Pho to go.
18 Greenwich Church Street, Greenwich, SE10 9BJ www.phocafe.co.uk/ locations/greenwich
Pho spread
Spicy chicken pho
Beef brisket pho
Join thousands of people as they quit smoking this Stoptober
Smoking is the most preventable cause of death with 74,000 people dying every year in the UK.
Stoptober aims to empower people to give up smoking during October, as evidence shows people are five times more likely to quit for good if they can make it to at least 28 days smoke free. To mark Stoptober, the Royal Borough of Greenwich is sharing all the local free services that can support you in your quitting journey - so you can live your best life.
Local health and wellbeing service, Live Well Greenwich, can provide oneto-one support, drop-in sessions, nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and e-cigarettes to help you become healthier and smoke free. NRT is a medicine that provides you with a low level of nicotine, without the tar, carbon monoxide and other poisonous chemicals present in tobacco smoke. It comes in the form of chewing gum, patches, sprays, inhalators and lozenges.
A council spokesperson said: “We know that smoking affects our most vulnerable, which is why it’s important that these support services are free and accessible. We want the 30,000 smokers in our borough to know you are five times more likely to quit with support from services like Live Well. You can discuss your struggles with quitting in the past and get the advice you need to find a way forward.
“Providing free, accessible services ensures no one gets left behind and that everyone has the same opportunity to improve their physical health and - in just six weeks - see the benefits to their mental health and environment too, allowing everyone to live their best life”
In the UK, 70 per cent of smokers want to quit smoking, but don’t know where to start. You’re at the start line if you’re considering quitting, so get in touch.
To get support to stop smoking, whether it be cigarettes or vapes, head to livewellgreenwich.org.uk/stop-smoking or call Greenwich Health on 0800 068 7123
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ChangingPropery.com, who offer residential sales, lettings and property management services across the Royal Borough of Greenwich, have generously donated two seats in their West Stand Executive Suite for the much-anticipated fixture in SE7 against the Red Dragons.
For just £5, this exciting raffle offers one lucky winner the opportunity for them and a friend to join Kalpesh, enjoy his hospitality and watch the game in luxury, with all proceeds supporting CACT.
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• Pre-match two-course dining
• Matchday programme and teamsheets
• Access to suite two-and a-half hours pre-match and 90 minutes post-match
• Appearance by Charlton legends
• Player-of-the-Match presentation
All proceeds from the raffle will go directly to CACT to assist their continued efforts in the community and supporters can increase their chances of winning by purchasing as many tickets as they would like.
Charlton Athletic were named as the 2024 EFL Community Club of the Year for their outstanding, life-changing work with CACT having worked with more than 26,000 people over the last year,
with a record committed spend of £6.8m on charitable work.
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I’m supposed to be writing here about industry in Greenwich, but lately I’ve been straying a bit over the borders into Lewisham and Bexley and places like that. I hope our editor will forgive me - but she’s got to be even more forgiving this week because I thought we should go on a nice late summer holiday, perhaps to Brazil. A good holiday should be by the seaside and I thought we could go to the radioactive black sands at Guarapari.
I don’t normally watch TV but I have watched the programme on the BBC in the last few weeks in which Brazil has featured. This has been ‘Celebrity Race Across the World’ where the teams have been going down through Brazil. It is such a vast country and it was worth watching for all the amazing scenery in between the bus stations the programme is so keen on. I kept watching it in the hope we’d see the radioactive sands but no such luck. Perhaps they thought it would be bad for trade.
There is, of course, a background to this and I want to describe the
Tysoe’s voyage through Brazil for monazite
adventures in Brazil of an important man from Greenwich - he lived in Westcombe Park Road and was the manager of East Greenwich gas works. I wrote a bit about him here six weeks or so ago when I did an article about the gas mantle factory down in West Greenwich and how Joseph Tysoe, the Manager of East Greenwich Gas works, had been sent to Brazil in 1902 by the Company. He went in order to investigate sources of monazite, which was the source of Thorium which was needed to make gas mantles for lighting. Thirty or so years earlier Tysoe had worked at a gas works in Brazil so – I assume – it was
thought he would ‘understand’ it there. Clearly South Met. Gas hoped to corner the supply of monazite and establish a monopoly of gas mantle manufacture at their Greenwich factory on Deptford Creek.
Learning about his adventures had originally been sparked by Brian Sturt’s article ‘Joseph Tysoe and Monazite Sand. (Historic Gas Times 106 Dec 2021 – available from
the Institution of Gas Engineers). The kind staff at the National Gas Archive sent me a copy of Tysoe’s own account of his adventures in Brazil and I thought you might like to hear about them too. It must have taken him weeks to get to Brazil by ship and he was away for many months. Today I can follow his tracks very happily on Google Street View and visit the cities he was at a century
ago. Also I don’t have to actually step on the radioactive beach.
Tysoe arrived in Rio de Janeiro at the end of April and found himself immediately engaged with government officials and with the Brazilian Ministry of Finance and it was over a month before he could move away from Rio. In the meantime, while negotiating, he was staying at the Grand International Hotel in Santa Teresa. I’m afraid that the hotel has long since been demolished –but the road it was in winds pleasantly up the hillside with amazing views down into the City. Tysoe was very impressed with the view of ‘universal red tiled roofs’ and much else. In particular he was very pleased to see the Rio Gas Works with its holders ‘standing up prominently in the middle distance making up a picture which must be seen to be appreciated’.
I’m afraid I’m not entirely sure exactly where the Rio gas works was and I couldn’t see any gas holders around now. The gas industry in Rio in the 19th century was British owned and Company meetings were held at the Cannon Street Hotel in London and the engineers were all of them British.
I can see perhaps that people in Rio might not have been that keen on its gas works being run from the other side of the world. Anyway Tysoe looked out over Rio and
Mary Mills
Ad: south met gas mantles
Joseph Tysoe
His view of Rio today -no sign of gas holders
said ‘every prospect pleases’.
He left Rio by steamship which wasn’t, he said, “first class from an English standpoint”. He went to a place down the coast called Victoria which he said was ‘beautiful viewed from a distance’. On Street View there is actually a motorway now which goes across the Bay so that you can get a very good
view of what Tysoe would have seen as he came in by steamship – but today, like everywhere else, it’s all tower blocks.
As the ship came into the Bay Tysoe noticed a derelict gas works – ‘all that was left being the guide framing of the holder and various pipes’. He found that 20 years earlier the town had been lit by gas but it was a
Brazilian owned company which had been unable to make it a success. Lighting in the town was now by kerosene. There were also vultures perched in the ruins. He said there were lots of vultures and it was illegal to kill them because they ‘acted as the sanitary authority and removed refuse from the streets’.
Happily for Tysoe he didn’t have
was described as a hotel’ and ate his dinner which consisted of one course by the light of one candle. They travelled by mule to the beaches where the monazite deposits were - or are - and he described in some detail how it was dug, washed and bagged up. He thought it was similar to gold mining. There is a background to this – monazite had been processed and exported since 1886 by an English (or American) engineer called John Gordon. He had dealt with it on behalf of French and German interests and presumably provided supplies to the Welsbach Company who had been the principle manufactures of gas mantles. He had had a concession at Guarapari which had been withdrawn, but his men were still engaged in processing previously dug deposits and shipping it off to Germany.
Today the ‘black beaches’ are very much in evidence at Guarapari and you can walk along a seaside path – lined inland by expensive looking blocks – and look at them. There seems to be nothing stopping you accessing them and indeed some people seem to be sitting on them. Tysoe may be forgiven for ignoring the radioactivity but today it also doesn’t seem to be an issue.
to stay in Victoria because he had a letter of introduction to an Englishman and moved to his house on an island 2 miles away. For which he was very thankful. But he needed to go to where the monazite deposits sites were. The nearest were at Guarapari where the deposits are on the shore. He explained that the Brazilian state had claimed ownership and granted concessions for working them, but the federal government had realised ‘there was money in it’ and claimed it to be theirs. This was going to have to be sorted out.
Tysoe had been given an introduction to a ‘Doctor Silviera da Motta who was Chief of the Demarcation Committee’ and he set about trying to find him at Guarapari. To get there he had been lent the Custom House steam launch but the weather was too bad to go and when, later,it was good enough to clear the Bay there were such heavy seas that they had to go back. Eventually they went and it was a ‘rough passage of five hours’ and he experienced ‘no little anxiety’.
He said Guarapari was largely composed of mud hovels and the only accommodation to be obtained there was of a primitive description. Today it is all flashy tower blocks along the coast and inland are traditional houses and a decent but modest little town. I’m also sure that the food is a lot better than Tysoe got. He stayed at ‘what
Tysoe left quite quickly following a long talk with Dr.Motta, which meant a return to Victoria by the steam launch. He then discovered to his dismay that one of its boiler tubes had given way the previous evening. He was grateful that the tube had not failed during the voyage ‘as nothing could have saved us on that rocky coast’. The next day steam was got up but the tube failed again and he decided immediately to return to Victoria by land, getting himself a horse and a guide for the purpose.
The ride took two days with an overnight stay half way. He was very pleased that he had got the horse, not only as it was safer, but the ‘scenery and objects of interest in the forest were full recompense for the inconvenience’. He was then four days in Victoria before he went back to Rio and he left the place ‘without one pang of regret’. Once in Rio he managed to prevent the contract for the deposits being given to a Brazilian syndicate and made sure it was thrown open to ‘free and fair’ public competition.
Clearly he had failed to get any concessions for South Met Gas. He said that he thought he was successful because he had stopped the concession being automatically given to a Brazilian company. In fact once he left that’s exactly what happened. Today we can understand the Brazilians’ wish to control their mineral assets themselves. This is not about colonialism but the other process which gets less attention whereby the natural assets and management of a ‘third world’ country were owned and controlled by European capital interests.
Tysoe clearly hated his mission and couldn’t wait to get back to Westcombe Park and also see that the management of east Greenwich gas works had survived without him.
Guarapari beach today
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ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) BURRAGE PLACE 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 BT/Openreach, who need to carry out a safe pole replacement.
2. The Order will come into operation on 17th October 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.
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 Burrage Place outside 30.
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 26 July 2024
INTERNAL REF - PL / LA474499 FN 689 / Lic. No: 71628
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) BRAMBLEBURY ROAD PLANNED PARKING RESTRICTIONS (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 BT/Openreach who need to carry out a telegraph pole replacement.
2. The Order will come into operation on 14th October 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 parking or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Bramblebury Road outside and opposite 18 - 24.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation restrictions traffic will not need to 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 29 August 2024
INTERNAL REF - PL / LA473939 FN693 / Lic. No: 71927
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 21 days of the date of this notice.
Please quote the appropriate reference number.
Date: 02/10/2024
Victoria Geoghegan
Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control
List of Press Advertisements - 02/10/2024
Publicity for Planning Applications
Applicant: Berkeley Homes (East Thames and Peabody Land Ltd 24/1565/R
Site Address: Land Bounded by Pettman Crescent, Nathan Way and Hadden Road, London, SE28
Development: Submission of reserved matters application (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for Plot 1 only, pursuant to condition 15 of parent planning permission ref:19/4398/O dated 21 May 2021 as amended under S73 planning permission ref:21/3540/MA dated 09 November 2022 and S73 planning permission ref: 22/3782/MA dated 17th March 2023 comprising the construction of 328 residential units with associated parking and private and public open spaces.
Note: the application documents refer to the layout proposed under a nonmaterial amendment application submitted alongside the Plot 1 reserved matters application (reconsultation - amended plans & documents)
Applicant: Mr and Mrs Vermeire 24/2289/HD
Site Address: 62 EAGLESFIELD ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3BU
Development: Proposed demolition of existing rear extension, conservatory and garage and replaced with a new rear extension, part first floor rear extension, loft conversion with rear dormer, rooflights, internal modification, new levelled garden patio and all associated works.
Conservation Area: SHREWSBURY PARK ESTATE
Applicant: C/O Agent
24/2382/HD
Site Address: 105 KING GEORGE STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8PX
Development: Removal of existing slate roof and replacement with roofing felt and slate roof to match existing.
Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH
Applicant: The Hyde Group
Site Address: 39 ROSS WAY, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6RJ
24/2399/F
Development: Replacement of existing windows with double glazed PVCu casement windows with astragal bars, and replacement of all all external doors to original style - double glazed bespoke heritage door in PVCu to the front elevation and white double glazed PVCu door to the rear.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: London & Quadrant 24/2400/F
Site Address: 76 WOODHILL, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 5JF
Development: Replacement of existing single glazed timber windows with new timber double glazed units to the front elevation and uPVC units to the rear.
Conservation Area: WOOLWICH COMMON
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2409/F
Site Address: 184 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6SR
Development: This proposal is for the replacement of the existing windows and all external doors. The proposed
windows are to be double glazed PVCu casement windows with astragal bars. The doors are to be designed to the style of the original doors from when the properties were built - a white double glazed bespoke PVCu heritage door to the front elevation and a white double glazed PVCu French doors to the rear.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2410/F
Site Address: 232 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6ST
Development: This proposal is for the replacement of the existing windows and all external doors. The proposed windows are to be double glazed PVCu casement windows with astragal bars. The doors are to be designed to the style of the original doors from when the properties were built - a white double glazed bespoke PVCu heritage door to the front elevation and a white double glazed PVCu door to the rear.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2419/F
Site Address: 50-52 ROSS WAY, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6RL
Development: Replacement of the existing windows and all external doors. Windows to be double glazed PVCu casement windows with astragal bars. Front doors to be double glazed bespoke heritage doors in PVCu, style to the original doors and white double glazed PVCu doors to the rear.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2422/F
Site Address: 364 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6UF
Development: Replacement of the existing windows and all external doors. Windows to be double glazed PVCu casement windows with astragal bars. Front door to be designed to the style of the original doors - a double glazed bespoke PVCu heritage door. Rear door replaced to white double glazed PVCu door.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/2424/F
Site Address: 380 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6UF
Development: Replacement of the existing windows and all external doors.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: Mr & Dr Hawkins & Kearns 24/2824/MA
Site Address: 32 MORDEN ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 0AA
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 3/05/2024 (Reference: 24/1078 HD) for "Construction of a two-storey rear extension with a hipped roof, construction of a rear/ side garage and all associated works.". to allow:
- Amendment to Condition 2 (Approved Drawings)
Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) POINT HILL 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 Cappagh Contractors LTD who need to carry out sewer repair and maintenance works.
2. The Order will come into operation on 10th October 2024 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 2 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 Point Hill at the junction of Royal Hill.
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.
Applicant: London & Quadrant 24/2865/F
Site Address: 26 HORSEFERRY PLACE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9HG
Development: Installation of 2no. air conditioning units behind cladding of the host building.
Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH
Applicant: Royal London UK Real Estate Fund Nominees One and Two c/o Royal London Asset Man 24/2867/F
Site Address: Unit 78, Westminster Industrial Estate, 5 Bowater Road, London, SE18 5NU
Development: Refurbishment of the building to include the installation of replacement windows on the building with fire-rated aluminium, double-glazed windows, replacement of existing sectional shutters on the building with insulated sectional shutters and formation of new personnel door and shutter door on southern elevation, replacement of roof coverings with composite metal cladding incorporating rooflights, installation of PV panels to the southern roof slopes, replacement of cast iron drainage components with new cast iron components, redecoration of external facades, and erection of palisade fencing to enclose the yard at the rear of the site
Conservation Area: THAMES BARRIER & BOWATER ROAD
Applicant: London & Quadrant 24/2951/F
Site Address: 89 SHREWSBURY LANE, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3JW
Development: Replacement of timber framed doors and windows for double glazed uPVC framed units.
Applicant: London & Quadrant 24/2965/HD
Site Address: 39 PELTON ROAD, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9PQ
Development: Replacement of front timber windows and front entrance door with slimline Timber units. Replacement of rear uPVC windows and door with replacement double glazed uPVC units.
Conservation Area: EAST GREENWICH
Applicant: Ciara Wang 24/2976/HD
Site Address: 29 CONGREVE ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1LP
Development: Construction of single storey rear extension, a rear dormer loft conversion and all associated works.
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Applicant: Ms Reilly 24/2993/HD
Site Address: 23 ASHRIDGE CRESCENT, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 3EA
Development: Garage conversion into a habitable space and incorporating a rear infill extension, a new hipped roof, new garage doors, new side gate with alterations to existing roof light and associated works.
Conservation Area: SHREWSBURY PARK ESTATE
Applicant: Jurkowsky 24/3012/HD
Site Address: 61 ASHBURNHAM GROVE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8UJ
Development: Construction of a first floor rear extension and a single storey rear extension and all associated works.
Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE
Applicant: Mrs Tapp Georgia Tapp 24/3018/HD
Site Address: 21 HASSENDEAN ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 8TR
Development: Construction of a single-storey rear-infill extension.
Conservation Area: RECTORY FIELD
Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/3028/HD
Address:
Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE
Publicity for
Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH Listed Building: Grade 2
Applicant: Mr Boyuan Li 24/3033/L Site Address: FLAT 3, 47 BENNETT PARK, LONDON, SE3 9RA Development: Create a small ensuite shower room together with WC in the main bedroom (Bed 1 on existing plan). Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK Listed Building: Grade 2
Applicant: Louis Lupien Turner Works 24/3039/L Site Address: GREENWICH COUNCIL OFFICES, WOOLWICH TOWN HALL, WELLINGTON STREET, WOOLWICH, LONDON, SE18 6PW
Development: Installation of a cast iron plaque with historical details on the building at street level
Conservation Area: Woolwich Conservation Area
Listed Building: Grade 2
Publicity for Advertisements
Applicant: Mr Cutler L&Q
24/2985/A
Site Address: 26 HORSEFERRY PLACE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9HG
Development: Projecting or Hanging Sign.
Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) MAJENDIE ROAD PLANNED PARKING RESTRICTIONS (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 BT/Openreach who need to carry out works on a telegraph pole replacement.
2. The Order will come into operation on 15th October 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 parking or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Majendie Road outside and opposite 1 – 13.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will not need to 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 30 August 2024
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