Greenwich & Lewisham Weekender - October 9th 2024 by CommunityMattersMedia

Save the date for Sparkle in the Park 2024!

The Royal Borough of Greenwich’s festive light trail, Sparkle in the Park, is back for a fifth year this Christmas.

From 28 November to 1 December (4.30 to 9pm), Charlton Park and Charlton House Gardens will be transformed into an enchanted winter wonderland, cocreated with our residents, for local people to enjoy.

Visitors won’t need a ticket or to pre-book to enter this year’s event. We will do our best to minimise any wait times, but please be prepared to queue for entry at busy times, particularly on Saturday evening.

On Sunday 1 December there will be a quiet hour from 4.30 to 5.30pm, for children and adults with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and sensory sensitivities. There will be reduced noise and capacity, no flashing lights, and sensory safe entertainment.

Sparkle in the Park 2024 will be produced by FESTIVAL.ORG

Charlton House and Gardens will also be running their own festive activities inside the historic property: greenwichheritage.org/events

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Design District Yoga

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Take a break with weekly lunchtime yoga run by instructor Sophie Wilkinson at Greenwich Peninsula’s Design District. You will work through a range of poses during the Vinyasa yoga session while also strengthening your mental practice, breathwork and meditation. The class welcomes all levels of experience. So whether you are an expert in downward dog, or have just started in child’s pose, you are invited to join in. Each class is free for Design District community members via the Design District app and £5 for non-members. Remember to bring your own yoga mat.

Dates: Every Thursday, 12pm to 1pm

Tickets: £5

13 Soames Walk, SE10 0AX www.greenwichpeninsula.co.uk/whatson/design-district-yoga

Lewisham Multicultural Writers’ Group

Get those creative juices flowing with support and laughter at the Lewisham Multicultural Writers’ Group hosted at

Deptford Lounge. The group invites you into a positive space to enjoy writing of all kinds. Whether you’re a writer of poetry or novels, please contact the library to register your interest: deptfordlibrary@lewisham.

gov.uk or call 020 8314 7299. Dates: Every Third Saturday, from 2pm to 4pm. Tickets: Free 9 Giffin Street, Deptford, SE8 4RJ deptfordlounge.org.uk/whats-on/event/ lewisham-multicultural-writers-group

Experience 25: Isle of Wight Festival

This year marked the 25th edition of the Isle of Wight Festival, including the three original events held in 1968, ‘69 and ‘70. To celebrate this landmark in music history, Experience 25 – an exhibition dedicated to the festival’s history – will run at the O2’s Innovation Centre until 13 November. The space will play host to an archive documenting the festival’s most magical moments. Visitors will travel back in time and be invited into the office of Ray Foulk, the original curator of the first three festivals. On display are original images and footage of performances by The Doors, The Who, Joni Mitchell, and even Hendrix shredding in front of a full crowd in 1970. Guests will then be transported to 2002, when promoter John Giddings revived the festival, beginning its run to present day. The Isle of Wight Festival now hosts 60,000 music fans a year. Relive David Bowie’s headline set in 2004, Jay Z’s performance in 2010 and Dave Grohl in 2011, all the way through to Green Day taking the reins as 2024’s headliner.

Date: Showing until Wednesday 13 November 2024. Tickets: Free O2, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX isleofwightfestival.com/news/ experience-25-is-heading-to-the-o2

Monteverdi Choir at the Old Royal Naval College

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth and the 60th year of the Monteverdi Choir, the Old Royal Naval College hosts an evening of music and conversation in the Chapel of St Peter & St Paul. This event offers a rare opportunity to explore the deep connections between two composers, Bruckner and Carlo Gesualdo, separated by 250 years. Before the concert begins, Sara Mohr-Pietsch will engage in a conversation with the concert’s conductor, Jonathan Sells. And then you will enjoy a programme of music in two parts.

Date: Sunday 20 October 2024

Tickets: Adult £31.50 to £76.50, student £18, child £9 Chapel of St Peter & St Paul, Old Royal Naval College, SE10 9NN ornc.org/whats-on/monteverdichoir-bruckner-gesualdo-echoingacross-the-centuries

Oktoberfest at the Fox & Firkin

Rich Hall: Shot from Cannons

For comedy lovers, you’ll want to mark this date in your diary: Rich Hall brings his new show Shot from Cannons to Blackheath Halls this November. Fresh off the heels of his critically acclaimed memoirs, Nailing It: Tales from the Comedy Frontier, Montana’s transatlantic messenger returns with new rants, observations, musical interludes and an ever-formidable knack for laughs on the fly.

Date: Sunday 10 November 2024

Tickets: £17 23 Lee Road, Blackheath, SE3 9RQ www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/rich-hallshot-from-cannons

Firkin Brewery is bringing the Bavarian spirit to life with steins of its freshest craft beer, brewed just steps away. Savour authentic German dishes while live bands set the perfect festive vibe for Fox & Firkin’s Oktoberfest party. As the night heats up, gather around for a spirited piano sing-along that’ll have everyone raising their voices and their glasses. Whether you’re a beer lover, a music fan, or just in it for the bratwurst, this is the Oktoberfest experience you won’t want to miss. Prost to that.

Date: Saturday 19 October 2024

Tickets: £5

316 Lewisham High Street, SE13 6JZ foxfirkin.com/events/oktoberfest-2

Deptford charity hosts Careers Fair

Blueprint for All invites those aged 16-30 for a day of exploration and foundationbuilding to maximise your early career impact

Blueprint for All has been based in Deptford for over 20 years, running projects and connecting with the local community to help individuals develop foundations of knowledge, skills and qualifications in order to succeed. And now, the charity has expanded its reach to a national level.

“We support community groups across the UK, working primarily with people from diverse ethnic backgrounds and those from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds, to maximise their impact and make positive changes for local people, too,” explains Hermione Penny, senior programmes partnership manager at Blueprint for All.

Selam Mengistu was a previous beneficiary of Blueprint for All’s Building Futures programme and is now programme coordinator at the charity. First hearing about the programmes on offer through word of mouth, she got involved in 2017.

The Building Futures programme supports young people from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds in pursuing careers in the Built Environment sector.

“As a former aspiring architect, I’ve experienced firsthand the barriers young people face, particularly those from underrepresented communities,” she explains. “Whether it’s limited access to professional networks or difficulty securing work experience and mentorship, these obstacles can be significant.”

During her time as a beneficiary at Blueprint for All, Selam took part in monthly workshops led by industry experts, she had a dedicated mentor for a year and access to a bursary to help cover some of the expenses of her architecture degree.

Blueprint for All “gave me invaluable confidence and access to a strong professional network, which I hadn’t previously had”, she says.

Selam adds that the programme “pushed me outside of my comfort zone and provided vital support and guidance”.

This guidance gap is one of many obstacles for young people early in

their careers, as Hermione explains:

“The greatest challenge we see is that people from a diverse ethnic heritage are underrepresented across many industries.

“We often find this is due to nepotism and that there are few accessible and widereaching processes in place for connecting young people to helpful career planning, advice and/or work experience.

“We also find a lack of awareness and flexibility of options, due to many young people being led to believe a university degree from a ‘highly rated’ institution is the only option for a successful future.”

In working to help combat this, Blueprint for All is hosting a Careers Fair at Peckham Levels on Thursday 17 October 2024, from 2pm to 7pm.

At the fair, you can meet with a range of companies across sectors including financial services, creative industries, architecture and design, retail, health and fitness, and gaming.

There will also be opportunities for those looking to craft their CV, find a new job, network with professionals or for those looking to make a career change. You can also get involved in a free taster session of Blueprint for All’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation programme to explore all areas of setting up your own business.

The Careers Fair also formally marks the launch of Blueprint for All’s digital platform, my.blueprintforall.org, “which connects talented and ambitious young people aged 16-30 from diverse, under-represented backgrounds with opportunities from employers across industries that would normally be out of their reach,” explains Hermione.

They also chose to run it during Black History Month as it’s “an important time for our charity to reflect and celebrate the strides we are making to create a society where everyone is valued”, she adds.

39 Brookmill Road, SE8 4HU www.blueprintforall.org

A good night out at Jazu

The hi-fi bar has found a home in Deptford; its three founders talk to Eliza Frost about curating the food menu, quality cocktails and south London nightlife

From moving between residencies and pop-ups, the trio of co-founders behind Jazu have been building up to open their own space.

Bringing each of their expertise and working to refine the offering, Jimmy Hanmer, Scott Addison and Rosie Robertson are now welcoming you inside their very own four walls on Deptford High Street for what they brand as their idea of “a good night out”.

Jimmy heads the kitchen, Scott the bar and Rosie is the “social mover” of Jazu, says Jimmy.

The space in Deptford came to be thanks to a Kickstarter campaign they ran, for which the three give

a nod to all the supporters.

What is now Jazu came with a great late license, which they definitely welcomed. Bringing their focus of good drinks, good food and good music, it’s a space that “made sense” to them, says Rosie. “Deptford seems quite open to late nights; with the music being so important to the business, that became a central feature we were looking for.”

Jimmy explains: “People are still very interested in nightlife, obviously, but in terms of clubs, I think that appetite is not what it once was. There’s this sort of pressure of a whole ‘night out’ thing. But places that do a combination of things, like a nice sound system and good drinks, it

ticks a lot of boxes for people – and I think that’s where we come in.”

Inside, Jazu has created a vinyl-only setup, with a bespoke DJ booth and sound system, both made in southeast London. A sleek, curved concrete bar and a record wall boasting over 3,000 vinyl. On Friday and Saturday nights, the decks welcome everyone from high-profile DJs to local selectors, playing from 7pm through to 3am.

Jimmy says that there is a “huge want and desire for nightlife across the UK, so places that are open late are going to be beacons”. Especially for music, he adds.

“There’s such a big scene in south London for live music, DJs

and producing, but at the same time, I don’t think many spaces nurture it or capture it.”

Rosie adds how what they are doing at Jazu is for such a broad bracket: “It’s nice to be a night out for anyone from like 20 to 60. This hybrid space, you get a more interesting, broader crowd, I think it’s nice.”

For drinks, Scott explains how it was created with balance in mind. “We use really good base spirits, with interesting flavour combinations,” he says, “with lots of inspiration from classic cocktails, but making small tweaks that we think improve them.”

After finding a distributor with a good agave portfolio, Scott says

they lent into that mezcal and tequila scene heavily. Although fewer may feature on the menu now, tequila and mezcal-based drinks are still a staple, and “we try to keep an interesting selection of mezcals on the back bar for people to try, too”.

And their Jazu cocktail favourites?

The Mezcal Mule for Scott (Lost Explorer Espadin Mezcal, ginger, lime, soda and Angostura bitters).

“It’s been on the list for three years now, it ticks all of the boxes for me,” he says. “It’s got an intense ginger flavour because we press the ginger fresh and add bitters, with a really good mezcal that I don’t think anyone else would use.

“It’s a great way to start the night because it’s long and refreshing, but then you can also carry on drinking them throughout, too.”

Rosie will take a Mezcalita (Lost Explorer Espadin Mezcal, lime, agave, jalapeño and Tajin), and for Jimmy, a Guinness: “I said when Scott put it on the menu that it’s not going to take off, but it has.”

The evening menu of small plates is concise and loosely inspired by the cocktails they serve, which change with the seasons.

Featuring dishes like smoked cod’s roe with courgette fritti, pan-fried rare breed pork chop with homemade jerk sauce and smacked cucumbers,

and a monkfish burger with garlic mayonnaise and chimichurri sauce.

For brunch, you can take the eggs Benedict with house-cured bacon using rare-breed pork or go sweet with the French toast with caramelised brioche and pistachio, yoghurt, blackberries and bourbon caramel.

The fresh takes on classic brunch dishes will be accompanied by a lineup of cocktail specials. The rotating menu will kick off with a House Bellini, Bloody Mary and Oaxacan Lemonade.

Of the food offering, Jimmy explains how they “always try our best to source the finest quality available” built around “nibbles you can eat with your hands”. But you can also expect food

pop-ups – they recently welcomed LÁ LÔT serving up Vietnamese delights – as well as takeovers during special weeks. Think tacos during Mezcal Week, and Kentucky-themed dishes during Old Fashioned Week.

“They’ll be some sort of thematic dramatization of food menus as we go along, just to keep things interesting,” adds Jimmy.

What else can you expect from Jazu’s new home? Well, they recently hosted an album launch party for artist Rosie Lowe where she played her new record in full.

“It was a good, immersive experience,” says Jimmy, “and you’re getting the best out of the

speakers and your surroundings”.

Enjoying the “deep listening” of music, recreating you “basically at home with your headphones on”, Jimmy says they will look to do more similar events.

Rosie explains how, when they had the idea of Jazu, they were taking inspiration from listening bars in Japan in the early 50s – “quiet, serious listening”. And now it feels “like completing the circle”.

Jazu in its new home really does seem like a circular moment, and they’ll stay spinning on the decks just enough to keep you on your toes, too.

2 Deptford High Street, SE8 4AF www.jazudrinks.com

Apply for a secondary school place in Royal Greenwich

A great future can start today as applications for secondary school places for September 2025 in Royal Greenwich are open. If your child is due to start secondary school in September 2025, you will need to apply by Thursday 31 October 2024.

In 2023, 66% of Key Stage 4 students in Greenwich secondary schools achieved a 4 or higher in English and Maths, compared to 62% in 2019.

Apply by Thursday 31 October: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ admissions

If you are applying to one of the following schools, your child will also need to complete a fair banding test by 31 October:

• Leigh Halley Academy

• Harris Academy Greenwich

• Leigh Academy Blackheath

• Leigh Stationers’ Academy

You can download this from the schools’ websites.

Congrats to blooming gardens across Royal Greenwich!

Congratulations to this year’s winners of Greenwich in Bloom for being recognised as the best gardeners in the borough!

The annual awards sponsored by the Thompson Garden Centre celebrate the people in our community who work to bring colour and vibrancy to their gardens and neighbourhoods.

Councillor Jit Ranabhat, Mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich said: “Congratulations to this year’s Greenwich in Bloom winners. From balconies to allotments, it was a pleasure to look through the wonderful green spaces created by everyone who entered the competition. Judging them was a truly tough task.

“Your gardens make our neighbourhoods more vibrant and attractive, and getting outside to take care of them is a great way to boost both physical and mental health. Thank you to Thompsons Garden Centre for sponsoring the awards.”

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COMMUNITY TRUST’S OCTOBER HALF-TERM HOLIDAY COURSES

Charlton Athletic Community Trust [CACT] are delighted to be offering football courses for young people in Greenwich and Kent during the October half term.

CACT holiday courses offer children who are enthusiastic about football an opportunity to develop their football skills in the half-term week between October 28th to November 1st.

Holiday courses will run at five locations:

Charlton Athletic’s Training Ground in New Eltham, Sporting Club Thamesmead, John Wallis Academy, Ashford, Bearsted FC in Maidstone, Weald of Kent School in Sevenoaks.

CACT will be running their girlsonly course in New Eltham (October 28th - November 1st) and also be running their goalkeeping course in New Eltham

(October 28th - 30th only).

The goalkeeping course for 6-15-year-olds will cost £20 per day, or £48 for the full three-day course. The girls-only course and other courses for 4-15-yearolds cost £20 per day, or £80 for the full five-day course.

All sessions are delivered by FA qualified coaches. Meanwhile, first-team players from both

Charlton’s men’s and women’s team are expected to pay visits to holiday courses taking place in New Eltham, giving aspiring players the chance to meet and learn from the professionals.

Scan the QR Code to book your kids’ place for this half-term.

Where to put a sewage station?

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about Crossness pumping station down in the Erith marshes and described how in the 1860s it was decided to install a sewage system for the whole of London in the 1860s - and the process to set it up. The final building at the end of a network of new sewers on the south side of the River was this vast big pumping station at what was called ‘Crossness Point’. Then the week after I wrote another article which was about Crossness Point and the lighthouse there - but also all the other lighthouses up and down the Thames in the Greenwich area.

So I thought perhaps I had better move on now and try and look at why and how the Crossness pumping station was built where it is and I’ve been going back through lots of old records to see what I could find.

The pumping station itself is pretty well documented and there is a regular newsletter produced by the Trust, which runs the museum there and demonstrates the old steam engines. However I haven’t

Board of Works from a Sir Richard Tufton. He was an aristocrat from a family with holdings of land in various parts of the country, including Kent, although I can find no details. I stand to be corrected, but my guess is that this was once part of the lands of Lesnes Abbey - which is the Abbey after which Abbey Wood is named - and the ruins are near the Abbey Wood Station. In the mediaeval period monastic houses often worked to drain marshland by ‘inning’. This means building river ‘walls’ to keep the water off the land and to drain so it could be used for sheep grazing and other agricultural uses. So, was this done here?

got or seen copies of most of them, so I don’t know what is in them and whether what I am about to write has been published by them in the past. So, unless some kind person wants to send me a file of all the back ones, I have no way of finding out. That’s one of the problems, I think, with newsletters.

The land on which the Crossness pumping station and sewage works is built was bought by the Metropolitan

I’ve searched to find when the Metropolitan Board of Works decided to build this new sewage works –which meant sending all the sewage of South London to Crossness. But I found that it wasn’t the first place they thought of. In 1846 the inhabitants of Greenwich learned that a Bill had been put to Parliament by a body called the London Sewage Company to build an ‘immense Reservoir in the Greenwich Marshes’, to process all the waste of South London there!

Trying to get information about the London Sewage Company is not helped by the fact that it seems to be

Mary Mills

 Sir Joseph Bazalgette

the name of a current rock band. I think that in 1846 it was the name of a private company which hoped to make money out of the solids in sewage which they could sell to agricultureas fertiliser. It seemed to be felt that this should be done by a public body but in the 1840s official bodies had relatively limited powers. Throughout the Metropolitan area there were several small sewage commissions and there was an attempt to consolidate

somewhere in the Greenwich area. I don’t know exactly where on the Greenwich marshes it was proposed to put this ‘immense reservoir’. A century later there were plans for a sewage works near Bay Wharf and on the site where the Greenwich Counck Works Department had their Tunnel Avenue Depot until relatively recently. But in the 1849s the texts read more as if it is planned for somewhere near the current site of the Dome. As you can imagine there was considerable consternation about this in Greenwich, Woolwich and Deptford.

A Royal Commission was set up which inquired into the London sewage system. John Phillips, who was the Surveyor to the Westminster Sewers Commission, issued a detailed report which was later submitted to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers.

Interestingly, this recommended, among many other things, that there should be two separate water disposal systems – one for clean water which meant street run off from rainwater and the other one for the foul sewage. Eventually the system was set up by Joseph Bazalgette, who was Philip’s successor. He went for a combined system - something which has been much criticised in recent years.

the Royal Hospital, the proudest palace on the earth, with its two thousand inmates. Receding from the river a little are the Royal Naval Schools at New Cross, the Royal Asylum Schools at Greenwich, and Union House, with its thousand inmates right opposite the outfall; and in Woolwich, the Barracks with its thousands of soldiers and the Academy for the cadets, all, with the rest of them to be blasted by the pestiferous exhalations of the reeking river and the poisonous reservoir”. But already Crossness Point’ was being discussed and clearly seen as a better option – but the Mercury felt that it wasn’t far away enough.

By 1859 the Metropolitan Board of Works had been set up and taken over the work of the Commission of Sewers. They reported that work was to start at Crossness. The report describes a long succession of roads under which the sewer pipes from the Deptford pumping station would pass to their termination on the bank of the River Thames below Crossness Point.

remembered of course that all of this area was then in the county of Kent and not in London – although the river itself and the riverbank were controlled by the City of London.

The contract for the Southern outfall itself was let to Mr. Roland Brotherhood, ‘the well known railway contractor, of Chippenham, Wilshire... six millions of bricks will be required for the formation of the tunnel, which terminates in the Plumstead Road, and will be continued thence through the marsh to Crossness Point, terminating at a depth below the surface of the marsh. Six shafts will be dug in the town of Woolwich .... for the more speedy completion of the tunnel; and... work is to be executed within two years.”

their activities. This work was taken over by the Metropolitan Board of Works which was set up in 1856 with a definite remit to sort things out.

The plans to use Greenwich did not go away and it also included the most extraordinary maze of pipe work and sewers to be built throughout London. Most of them seem to end up either taking the sewage to the Greenwich marshes or discharging it into the river

The report also retained the complicated set up network of pipes and drains including many river crossings, but it did suggest that the final pumping station for the combined foul sewage should be down somewhere in the marshes at Erith. Clearly there was another set of arguments about the site for north London - but I’m only describing the South here.

Various plans continued to be considered - but the idea of a huge reservoir in Greenwich remained. Greenwich and Woolwich politicians began to talk about the ‘Greenwich Calamity’. Kentish Mercury, as ever, reported at length on the evils which would result. “In Greenwich stands

It was “adjacent to the Artillery practice-grounds, opposite to Dagenham Breach on the north bank of the river. The reservoir and pumping station, with the necessary engines and machinery, will be constructed and erected on land in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Flint. The ground required... by the Metropolitan Board of Works, under the Act, intend to purchase of Sir Richard Tufton, the owner”.

There was a vote at the next meeting of the Board that the outfall should be at Crossness Point, which was carried by a majority of 35 to 2.

Almost immediately the Board officers were advertising for contractors to tender for various bits of the works; who should contact them at once. The main work to be started was for the Southern outfall sewer and was the subject of many advertisements for tenders, but other parts of the system ‘must include the Crossness engine site and outfall’. It should be

It was reported that Messrs. Webster and Co., was the contractor “for constructing the Southern Metropolitan main-drainage, from Greenwich to the outlet in Erith Marshes... they have commenced operations on an extensive scale at Woolwich. A number of workmen on Saturday last were sinking a shaft in Beresford Square, opposite the main entrance to the Royal Arsenal, and five similar shafts are to be sunk forth with. Leaving Woolwich, the sewer will diverge to the left, and be carried to the outlet at Crossness Point... Depositing and disinfecting reservoirs are to be constructed near the outfall, in order to disinfect the sewage prior discharge into the River.”

Webster was a local Blackheath firm, and Webster himself lived locally. I can remember an interesting talk on him given by the late and very much lamented Neil Rhind. I would recommend the blogger ‘Running past’s’ article on him: https://runner500. wordpress.com/2016/10/13/ william-webster-a-victorian-buildingcivil-engineering-contractor/

There was a long way to go before the system was developed as we know it today. Another episode soon!

 Crossness engine house when new

 building a sewern

 Building the southern outfall

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 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 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

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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 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

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.

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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 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 exiting or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Rippolson Road at the junction with Plumstead High 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.

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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 BT/Openreach who need to carry out a telegraph pole replacement.

2. The Order will come into operation on 14 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 traffic will not need to be diverted. 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 29 August 2024

INTERNAL REF: PL / LA473939 FN693 / Lic. No: 71927

Notice of Planning & Listed Buildings Applications Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (As Amended) Town & Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (As Amended) Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 (As Amended) Town & Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended)

Proposed Development At: Island Site, Wellington Street, Woolwich, SE18

Reference Number: 22/3162/F & Listed Building Ref: 22/3163/L

Notice is hereby given that an application is being made to the Royal Borough of Greenwich By: Woolwich Island Limited For Full Planning Permission in respect of: The redevelopment (together with demolition and part demolition of existing buildings) and refurbishment of the Island Site to provide co-living accommodation (Use Class Sui Generis), residential dwellings (Use Class C3(a)), community uses (Use Class E(d) and F2(b)), retail (Use Class E(a)), restaurants and cafes (Use Class E(b)) and offices (Use Class E(c)), new public realm with hard and soft landscaping, highways works, car parking, cycle parking, refuse and recycling storage, plant, external amenity space and associated works.

Further detailed explanation of the proposal (not forming part of the formal description of development set out above):

The proposal includes the erection of two mixed-use buildings following demolition of 17-27 Thomas Street and IBC Main Building; the refurbishment, extension and change of use of 2-4 Wellington Street, 6-10 Wellington Street, 12-14 Wellington Street, Thames Polytechnic: Arts and Science Building, Former Polytechnic Hall, 29 Thomas Street, IBC Central Building and refurbishment (and partial demolition) of the former workshops. To facilitate the following:

20 residential dwellings (Use Class C3(a))

485 co-living room (Use Class sui generis)

3,294 sqm (GIA) of non-residential floorspace site wide

-- 1,100 sqm GIA of community uses (Use Class E(d) and F2(b))

-- 1,414 sqm GIA of retail (Use Class E(a)) and restaurants and cafes (Use Class E(b))

-- 780 sqm GIA of office floorspace (Use Class E(c))

Maximum building height of 35.12 metres Above Ordnance Datum (m AOD).

(This re-consultation is required following submission of revised plans and technical reports incorporating scheme amendments as well as further information has been provided under Regulation 25 of the EIA Regulations regarding Daylight/Sunlight and Overshadowing).

(This application is an EIA development and is accompanied by an Environmental Statement, including further information under Regulation 25)

(The development may impact on the setting of the Grade II listed building on-site being the University of Greenwich, Woolwich Campus: Original Building, Gymnasium to Rear and Corner Entrance Range, as well as nearby Grade II* and Grade II listed buildings. In addition, the development may also impact the setting of the Woolwich Conservation Area)

(The development includes demolition of unlisted buildings or structures in the Woolwich Conservation Area).

A copy of the application and any plans and/or documents submitted with it is available for inspection by the public at www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ planning.

Representations to the Council about the application should be made within 30 days of the date of this notice using the above link or to the Planning Department, 5th floor, Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, Woolwich SE18 6HQ stating the full reference number(s) above.

Members of the public may obtain copies of the Non-Technical Statement, the full Environmental Statement and other associated documents as either hard or digital copies from Hilson Moran. The cost of the hard copies would be £250 for the complete set (Volumes I – III and the NTS) including delivery, and for the Non-Technical Statement would be £20 per copy. No charge for digital copies. For further details contact info@hilsonmoran.com or phoning +44 (0)20 7940 8888 quoting Island Site

Date: 9 October 2024

Victoria Geoghegan - Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control

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: 09/10/2024

Victoria Geoghegan

Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control

List of Press Advertisements - 09/10/2024

Publicity for Planning Applications

Applicant: Mrs S. Ptaszek Feliks Augustine Ltd 24/2282/HD

Site Address: 23 ASHBURNHAM PLACE GREENWICH, LONDON SE10 8TZ

Development: Replacement of Sash windows throughout the property with heritage double glazed wooden sash windows to match existing design and associated external works.

Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE

Applicant: Mrs Bernadette Enright 24/2881/HD

Site Address: 22 GLOUCESTER CIRCUS, LONDON, SE10 8RY

Development: Installation of new external basement doors, and associated external and internal alterations (This application Impacts a Grade 2 Listed Building within the West Greenwich Conservation Area)

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: London & Quadrant 24/2952/HD

Site Address: 15 CHRISTCHURCH WAY, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9AJ

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: M/S Eltham Medical Practice 24/2982/F

Site Address: ELTHAM MEDICAL PRACTICE, 180 WELL HALL ROAD, LONDON, SE9 6SR

Development: Construction of a front porch, single storey side and rear extensions.

Conservation Area: adjacent to Progress Estate

Applicant: Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime 24/3001/F

Site Address: METROPOLITAN POLICE, PLUMSTEAD POLICE STATION, 200 PLUMSTEAD HIGH STREET, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 1JY

Development: Erection of new automated gate and removal of existing automated gate.

Conservation Area:

Applicant: Ellen Simpson 24/3017/HD

Site Address: 23 REYNOLDS PLACE, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 8SX

Development: Construction of a single storey wrap around extension and all associated works.

Conservation Area: RECTORY FIELD

Applicant: The Hyde Group 24/3073/HD

Site Address: 13 MAUDSLAY ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1LJ

Development: Replace existing Upvc windows to front and rear elevations with new Upvc windows, including external white Upvc beading bars, to match existing styles and sizes. Replace 1 No. rear garden door with Upvc garden door to match existing size. Replace existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Mrs Miller The Hyde Group 24/3145/HD

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

Development: Replace existing Upvc windows to front, side and rear elevations with new Upvc windows, including external white Upvc beading bars, to match existing styles and sizes. Replace 1 No. rear garden door with Upvc garden door to match existing size.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Publicity for Listed Building Consent

Applicant: Mrs Bernadette Enright 24/2882/L

Site Address: 22 GLOUCESTER CIRCUS, LONDON, SE10 8RY

Development: Installation of new external basement doors, alterations and refurbishment to internal floors, new basement internal openings in load bearing walls and partitions, removal of bathroom fittings at ground level, removal of fire resistant glazed screen to first and second floor landing, remove existing first and second floor kitchens, reconfigure and replace bathroom fittings on the first and second floors, and associated internal and external alterations. (This application Impacts a Grade 2 Listed Building)

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Listed Building: Grade 2

Publicity for Advertisements

Applicant: Mr John Cutler L&Q 24/2985/A

Site Address: 26 HORSEFERRY PLACE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9HG

Development: Installation of a non-illuminated projecting / hanging sign and all window and door advert details.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)

TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES FOR HIGHWAYS MAINTENANCE – VARIOUS ROADS

1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make an Order to accommodate Highway safety and to facilitate highway maintenance repairs works under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

2. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily:

a) prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in the roads or lengths of road specified in the Schedule to this Notice.

b) Revoke the existing One-Way prohibitions at the following locations:

a. Admaston Road between its junction with Palmerston Crescent and Plumstead Common Road in a northerly direction.

b. Alwold Crescent between its junction with the A205 and the A20 in an easterly direction.

c. Ennis Road between its junction with Macoma Road and its junction with Admaston Road in a southerly direction.

d. Orchard Road between its junction with Plumstead High Street and Griffin Road in a south-westerly direction.

e. Plum Lane between its junction with Plumstead Common Road and Vambery Road in a southerly direction.

f. Red Lion Lane between its junction with Shooters Hill and the entrance to Shooters Hill Sixth Form College in a northerly direction.

c) Introduce One-Way prohibitions at the following locations:

a. Admaston Road between its junction with Plumstead Common Road and Palmerston Crescent in a southerly direction.

b. Alwold Crescent between its junction with the A20 and the A205 in a westerly direction.

c. Ennis Road between its junction with Admaston Road and Macoma Road in a northerly direction.

d. Orchard Road between its junction with Griffin Road and Plumstead High Street in a north-easterly direction.

e. Plum Lane between its junction with Vambery Road and Plumstead Common Road in a northerly direction.

f. Red Lion Lane between its junction with the entrance to Shooters Hill Sixth Form College and Shooters Hill in a southerly direction.

3. The above restrictions would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing or covering of the appropriate traffic signs.

4. Whilst the closures are in operation, vehicular access to properties affected by these works would be maintained wherever possible subject to the extent and operations of the works. Alternative routes for diverted vehicles would be available via local roads and would be indicated via local signage.

5. The Order would come into force on 17th October 2024 and would continue in force for up to 18 months, or until the works have been completed, whichever is the sooner. The works would be conducted on a ‘rolling’ programme and, as such, not all the restrictions stated in paragraph 2 would be in force in all the effected roads.

6. Queries concerning these works should be directed to traffic-orders@royalgreenwich.gov.uk quoting reference 10-24 Highways Maintenance.

Assistant Director, Transport, Communities, Environment and Central, Royal Borough of Greenwich

Dated 9th October 2024

SCHEDULE

ADMASTON ROAD, for its entire length; ALWOLD CRESCENT, for its entire length; ANCHOR AND HOPE LANE, for its entire length; ANNANDALE ROAD, for its entire length; ARCHERY ROAD, for its entire length; ARNOTT CLOSE, for its entire length; ATTLEE ROAD, for its entire length; AUSTEN CLOSE, for its entire length; AVERY HILL ROAD, for its entire length; AVOCET MEWS, for its entire length; BANCHORY ROAD, for its entire length; BANNING STREET, for its entire length; BARDSLEY LANE, for its entire length; BASSANT ROAD, for its entire length; BELFORD GROVE, for its entire length; BENDMORE AVENUE, for its entire length; BENTHAM ROAD, for its entire length; BEXLEY ROAD, for its entire length; BIRDBROOK ROAD, for its entire length; BIRKDALE ROAD, for its entire length; BLACKWALL LANE, for its entire length; BLITHDALE ROAD, for its entire length; BOUGHTON ROAD, for its entire length; BRACONDALE ROAD, for its entire length; BRAMHOPE LANE, for its entire length; BRAMSHOT AVENUE, for its entire length; BREWERY ROAD, for its entire length; BROAD WALK, for its entire length; BUGSBYS WAY, for its entire length; BUSHMOOR CRESCENT, for its entire length; BYRON CLOSE, for its entire length; CADWALLON ROAD, for its entire length; CALDERWOOD STREET, for its entire length; CALVERT ROAD, for its entire length; CAMDALE ROAD, for its entire length; CANBERRA ROAD, for its entire length; CASTLEFORD AVENUE, for its entire length; CENTRAL WAY, for its entire length; CERES ROAD, for its entire length; CHARLTON LANE, for its entire length; CHARLTON ROAD, for its entire length; CHURCH MANORWAY, for its entire length; CHURCHBURY ROAD, for its entire length; CLOCK TOWER MEWS, for its entire length; COLDBATH STREET, for its entire length; CONGREVE ROAD, for its entire length; CONSTITUTION RISE, for its entire length; CONWAY ROAD, for its entire length; COOKHILL ROAD, for its entire length; COURT ROAD, for its entire length; COUTHURST ROAD, for its entire length; COXMOUNT ROAD, for its entire length; CREEK ROAD, for its entire length; CROOMS HILL, for its entire length; CROSSMEAD, for its entire length; CROSSWAY, for its entire length; DALLIN ROAD, for its entire length; DELACOURT ROAD, for its entire length; DELAFIELD ROAD, for its entire length; DOBELL ROAD, for its entire length; DOMONIC DRIVE, for its entire length; DUMBRECK ROAD, for its entire length; DUNVEGAN ROAD, for its entire length; EASTCOMBE AVENUE, for its entire length; EASTERN WAY, for its entire length; EGLINTON HILL, for its entire length; EGLINTON ROAD, for its entire length; ELDERSLIE ROAD, for its entire length; ELMLEY STREET, for its entire length; ELTHAM HIGH STREET, for its entire length; ELTHAM GREEN, for its entire length; ENNIS ROAD, for its entire length; ERINDALE, for its entire length; EYNSHAM DRIVE, for its entire length; FAIRTHORN ROAD, for its entire length; FOOTSCRAY ROAD, for its entire length; FRANCES STREET, for its entire length; GARLAND ROAD, for its entire length; GLENURE ROAD, for its entire length; GODSTOW ROAD, for its entire length; GOLDCREST CLOSE, for its entire length; GOUROCK ROAD, for its entire length; GRANGEHILL ROAD, for its entire length; GRASDENE ROAD, for its entire length; GREENBAY ROAD, for its entire length; GREENHAVEN DRIVE, for its entire length; GREENVALE ROAD, for its entire length; GREENWICH HIGH ROAD, for its entire length; GREEN WAY, for its entire length; GROVEBURY ROAD, for its entire length; HADRIAN STREET, for its entire length; HAIMO ROAD, for its entire length; HALONS ROAD, for its entire length; HARROW MANORWAY, for its entire length; HEAVITREE ROAD, for its entire length; HERBERT ROAD, for its entire length; HERVEY ROAD, for its entire length; HIGHMEAD, for its entire length; HORN LANE, for its entire length; HORNFAIR ROAD, for its entire length; HORSFELD ROAD, for its entire length; HOSKINS STREET, for its entire length; HOVETON ROAD, for its entire length; INDUS ROAD, for its entire length; JESSUP CLOSE, for its entire length; JOHN PENN STREET, for its entire length; KELLNER ROAD, for its entire length; KIDBROOKE PARK ROAD, for its entire length; KINGSLEY WOOD DRIVE, for its entire length; KINVEACHY GARDENS, for its entire length; KNEE HILL, for its entire length; LEGHORN ROAD, for its entire length; LOMBARD WALL, for its entire length; LUDHAM CLOSE, for its entire length; MACOMA ROAD, for its entire length; MARMADON ROAD, for its entire length; MAURITIUS ROAD, for its entire length; MAYDAY GARDENS, for its entire length; MAYERNE ROAD, for its entire length; MERBURY ROAD, for its entire length; MESSETER PLACE, for its entire length; MIDDLE PARK AVENUE, for its entire length; MOORDOWN, for its entire length; MOTTISFONT ROAD, for its entire length; NATHAN WAY, for its entire length; NEWHAVEN GARDENS, for its entire length; NIGERIA ROAD, for its entire length; NITHDALE ROAD, for its entire length; NORMAN ROAD, for its entire length; NYANZA STREET, for its entire length; OLD DOVER ROAD, for its entire length; ORCHARD ROAD, for its entire length; ORIOLE WAY, for its entire length; OSBORN TERRACE, for its entire length; OWEN CLOSE, for its entire length; PAGET RISE, for its entire length; PALMERSTON CRESCENT, for its entire length; PANFIELD ROAD, for its entire length; PARK ROW, for its entire length; PARKDALE ROAD, for its entire length; PETT STREET, for its entire length; PETTMAN CRESCENT, for its entire length; PLUM LANE, for its entire length; PLUMSTEAD COMMON ROAD, for its entire length; PLUMSTEAD HIGH STREET, for its entire length; PLUMSTEAD ROAD, for its entire length; POINT HILL, for its entire length; POPLAR PLACE, for its entire length; PORTWAY GARDENS, for its entire length; POUND PARK ROAD, for its entire length; PRINCE JOHN ROAD, for its entire length; PRINCE RUPERT ROAD, for its entire length; PROSPECT VALE, for its entire length; PURLAND ROAD, for its entire length; QUEENSCROFT ROAD, for its entire length; QUILTER STREET, for its entire length; RAYMERE GARDENS, for its entire length; RECTORY FIELD CRESCENT, for its entire length; RED LION LANE, for its entire length; REPOSITORY ROAD, for its entire length; RIEFIELD ROAD, for its entire length; ROAN STREET, for its entire length; ROCHESTER WAY, for its entire length; ROMNEY ROAD, for its entire length; RUSHBROOK ROAD, for its entire length; SHAWBROOKE ROAD, for its entire length; SHOOTERS HILL, for its entire length; SHOOTERS HILL ROAD, for its entire length; SLADEDALE ROAD, for its entire length; SORREL CLOSE, for its entire length; STRATHEDEN ROAD, for its entire length; SUNFIELDS PLACE, for its entire length; SWINGATE LANE, for its entire length; TAWNEY ROAD, for its entire length; TEWSON ROAD, for its entire length; THAMESMERE DRIVE, for its entire length; THE GLADE, for its entire length; THE VILLAGE, for its entire length; THE VISTA, for its entire length; THOMAS STREET, for its entire length; TIMBERCROFT LANE, for its entire length; TITMUSS AVENUE, for its entire length; TORMOUNT ROAD, for its entire length; TORRANCE CLOSE, for its entire length; TRAFALGAR ROAD, for its entire length; TRENCHARD STREET, for its entire length; TUNNEL AVENUE, for its entire length; TUSCAN ROAD, for its entire length; VICTORIA WAY, for its entire length; WARWICK TERRACE, for its entire length; WAVERLEY CRESCENT, for its entire length; WELLING WAY, for its entire length; WELLINGTON STREET, for its entire length; WERNBROOK STREET, for its entire length; WEST HALLOWES, for its entire length; WESTCOMBE HILL, for its entire length; WESTERN WAY, for its entire length; WESTMOOR STREET, for its entire length; WESTMOUNT ROAD, for its entire length; WHETSTONE ROAD, for its entire length; WHINCHAT ROAD, for its entire length; WHITE HART AVENUE, for its entire length; WILMOUNT STREET, for its entire length; WINN COMMON ROAD, for its entire length; WOODHURST ROAD, for its entire length; WOOLWICH ROAD, for its entire length; WRICKLEMARSH ROAD, for its entire length.

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HOW DO I APPLY?

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.

BAND

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.

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

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

Ref Number:

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.

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

Ref Number: 649104

Dawes House

Henley Cross SE3

1 Bed 3rd Flr Flat

Lifted Entry phone Elec Rad No pets/pkg £233.17 pw

Ref Number: 649105 Dawes House Henley Cross SE3

1 Bed 3rd Flr Flat Lifted Entry phone

Rad No pets/pkg £234.25 pw

Ref Number: 649108

Dawes House

Henley Cross SE3

1 Bed 4th Flr

HOUSING

Ref Number: 649109

Dawes House

Henley Cross SE3

1 Bed 4th Flr Flat

Lifted Entry phone Elec Rad No pets/pkg £233.17 pw

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

MOVE TO A SMALLER PROPERTY

If your property is now too big for you, you can apply for the Small is Beautiful scheme.

To be eligible, your current property must:

• be a council or housing association property

• have 2, 3, 4 or 5 bedrooms

• be in the Royal Borough of Greenwich

Keynes

Hatfield

Odeon Parade Well Hall Road SE9 6DA

William Court Greenwich High Road SE10 8LF

Deering House Tudway Road SE3 9FG

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 645 16/08/2023

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 600 04/08/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 544 28/07/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 506 24/10/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 490 13/09/2023

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 469 08/09/2023

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 490 05/12/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 542 28/07/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 1 FLAT 1074 23/04/2017 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 487 27/09/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 473 14/11/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 465 24/08/2023 B1

Tom Smith Close SE10 9XJ 1 FLAT 870 08/04/2024 A

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 450 18/09/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 1 FLAT 808 04/11/2022 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 427 14/09/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 414 03/11/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 409 10/08/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 460 14/09/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 1 FLAT 725 18/10/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 431 08/12/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 401 09/11/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 377 02/09/2024 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 383 13/11/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 1 FLAT 714 20/09/2021 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 378 23/11/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 379 10/11/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 383 03/11/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 418 01/10/2023 B1

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 1 FLAT 676 24/10/2023

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 411 18/09/2023

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 382 11/01/2024

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 379 22/11/2023

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E 2 FLAT 366 17/11/2023

Elizabeth Anderson House Ignatius Sancho Road SE3 9E

The scheme can help you move to a smaller home that better meets your needs. We can then use your property to help another family who need it. For example, those in an overcrowded property or who are homeless.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

We’ll help you with costs and finding a new home that better meets your needs.

Financial benefits

We’ll pay:

• £1,000 for each spare room you give up

• an extra £500 if you downsize by mutual exchange

• your moving costs

• your disturbance costs, for example, for packing, disconnecting and reconnecting your appliances

Priority to find a new home

We’ll put your household in the highest priority band on the housing register so you can find a new home as soon as possible.

An Under Occupation Adviser will support you throughout the downsizing process.

Extra support for households with adult children

If you have non-dependant adult children living with you, we can offer them their own flat, if we can get a bedroom back. This means you and your adult child will each get a one-bedroom flat.

Extra support for older tenants

If you’re Pension Credit age you can downsize to a home with one extra bedroom to allow for caring or support needs. We can visit you and support you with everything you need to downsize.

WHO CAN APPLY

You can apply if you’re under-occupying your home by at least one bedroom.

When we decide if a tenant is under-occupying, we count a second living room (or parlour) as a bedroom.

APPLY

Email: Housing-Allocations-Downsizi@royalgreenwich. gov.uk

OTHER DOWNSIZING OPTIONS

If you’re 55 or over, you could also consider moving to the seaside or countryside.

This could be for you if you’re:

• in poor health

• struggling to cope in your current home

• keen to move nearer to friends, family or amenities

You can also contact us if you know other tenants who might benefit from this scheme.

Find out about moving to the seaside or country.

For information or assistance Contact our Allocations Team on: 020 8921

or email: housing-allocations@ royalgreenwich.gov.uk

You have the power to make a positive impact and earn money along the way

Now is the time to take advantage of the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s first ever Greenwich Green Investment scheme.

You have the chance to invest in local climate projects while earning a fixed rate of interest of 4.0% per year.

The Council is aiming to raise £1 million to fund initiatives that will create a greener, cleaner borough, and have already raised more than £215,000

From improving parks and open spaces to installing solar panels that benefit the entire community, your investment can make a real difference!

Are you a local business looking to make a difference?

By investing, your business can:

• Support green projects: Your funds will help install solar panels, improve parks, and upgrade energy-efficient infrastructure, contributing to a greener borough.

• Enhance sustainability goals: Align your business with climate action and demonstrate a commitment to reducing carbon emissions.

• Earn a financial return: While making a positive impact, you’ll also see financial growth with a steady 4.0% return.

You don’t need to live or work in Royal Greenwich to invest; everyone is welcome to take a positive step to supporting sustainability.

For more information on how to get involved, visit royalgreenwich. gov.uk/green-investment

Investments are long-term and may be hard to sell. This is not a savings account. Changes in market interest rates may affect the value of your investment if you sell before maturity. (FRN: 525432) Approver: Abundance (525432). Approval date: 7 October 2024.