Greenwich & Lewisham Weekender - December 17th 2025

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Watch the Nutcracker Ballet at Blackheath Halls:

Let’s All Dance Ballet Company returns this December with a festive performance of The Nutcracker. From Monday 22 December to Tuesday 23 December, families can enjoy this enchanting ballet, perfect for children of all ages.

The show will transport the audience to the magical Land of Sweets, where they’ll meet the Mouse King, the Snow Queen, and the Sugar Plum Fairy.

You can also view each edition online, as well as daily news and events, on our website: www.weekender.co.uk The Greenwich & Lewisham Weekender covers all aspects of life in the boroughs, including music, theatre, comedy, film, events, and food and drink, as well as all your community events and campaigns.

Date: Monday 22 December - Tuesday 23 December Time: Various times Location: Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Rd, Blackheath, London SE3 9RQ Tickets: £17, available https://www.blackheathhalls. com/whats-on/the-nutcracker-2025/

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Beauty and the Beast panto at the Churchill Theatre

Panto magic returns to Bromley as Beauty and the Beast takes over the Churchill Theatre until 4 January. It stars TV and theatre favourite Samantha Womack as the Enchantress and Hi-de-Hi! star and panto legend Su Pollard as Mrs Potty.

They will be joined by Britain’s Got Talent star Jamie Leahey as Silly Billy, panto dame Ben Stock as Dame Betty Bouffant and musical theatre actress Sheri Lineham as Belle. Belle finds herself trapped in a cursed castle and held captive by a beast. To her surprise, the castle is full of magical characters placed under a spell by a magic enchantress. Can Belle see beyond the monster and fall in love with her captor before the last petal falls from the enchanted rose?

Date: Now until 4 January Time: Various performances at 1:30pm and 5:30pm Location: Churchill Theatre, 108 High Street, Bromley, London BR1 1HA Tickets: From £20 https://trafalgartickets.com/churchilltheatre-bromley/en-GB/event/pantomime/beauty-and-thebeast-tickets

Disney on Ice at the O2:

Head to the O2 on Boxing Day until 4 January for a performance of all the Disney classics, live on ice. All your favourite Disney heroes and stories are coming to the ice, from Moana and Maui to Anna and Elsa from Frozen. There will be The Little Mermaid, Mickey Mouse, Beauty and the Beast and Tangled. Costumes are welcomed and encouraged.

Date: Friday 26 December - 4 January Time: Numerous shows at 9:30am, 1:30pm or 5:30pm Location: O2 Arena, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX Tickets: £45, available https://www.theo2. co.uk/events/detail/disney-on-ice-presentsfind-your-hero-2025

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NEWS

Two dozen First World War heroes who were buried in unmarked graves for over a century are set to be honoured for their contributions to the war effort and finally receive their own headstones,

By Ruby Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter The 23 servicemen, and one woman who served in the Women’s Royal Air Force, all died shortly after returning home from battle and were all buried in “pauper’s graves” at Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery in Lewisham.

Pauper’s graves are unmarked, public burial plots which were common at the time because of the large number of casualties after the war and families who were unable to afford their own memorial for a loved one.

Researchers at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) have been working with Bereavement Services at Lewisham Council to look into death records, widows’ pension records and old maps of the cemetery layout to help track down the exact locations of the unmarked graves.

The Friends of Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery (FoLBC), a group of around 300 dedicated volunteers who work hard to maintain and preserve the cemeteries, have also been involved in the efforts to uncover the forgotten lives of those who are buried there. CWGC researchers had contacted the council as they were initially researching four soldiers from World War One. Council staff from Bereavement Services then worked to look through grave and death records and shared information with CWGC to help with research.

After figuring out where the graves were based using markers and old plot maps of the cemetery, they discovered there were even more soldiers in one of the areas under study.

Cllr Oana Olaru-Holmes, Cabinet Member for Safer Lewisham, Refugees and Equalities at Lewisham Council, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “We are always happy to work with CWGC and are proud to support their work by giving our officers’ time to support the research.

“This is an ongoing project over

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FORGOTTEN WORLD WAR I HEROES

The 23 servicemen and one woman who have been located in Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery will be commemorated with their own headstones. Pictured is Colin Burgess, Bureavement Services Manager.

Unmarked graves found in South London finally receive their own headstones

the next 12 months. We now have approval for [24] war graves. We will also be working with CWGC to plan the installation of the graves. The speaker will then be in attendance to officially mark the memorials of these forgotten and fallen.”

Lewisham Council has shared the names of the soldiers with the LDRS. They were first publicly read out by Deputy Mayor of Lewisham, Cllr Louise Krupski, during the Remembrance Sunday Service on November 9.

During their research, the council and CWGC discovered that two sets of soldiers share a grave.

They will be commemorated and will share memorials.

Using CWGC’s online records and information from websites including the Imperial War Museum, London Remembers and Lewisham’s Local History and Archives Centre, the LDRS has tracked down further details for most of the soldiers who are set to be commemorated, including their regiment, ranks and the exact date they died.

Three of them had significantly more information available.

THE TEAM HAS ‘WORKED TIRELESSLY’ Cllr Olaru-Holmes said once the new headstones are installed, the names of the located soldiers will be removed from the wall memorial at Hero’s Corner, in line with CWGC guidance that individuals cannot be commemorated twice.

She added: “Restoration of the existing wall memorial will take place at the same time, ensuring that all soldiers, including those still without known graves, continue to be remembered. It’s been a collaborative effort, our Bereavement Services team, FoLBC and the CWGC have worked tirelessly to uncover these forgotten histories.

“Bereavement Services will use the new collaboration channels to support future requests and will ensure there is always room for soldier searches beyond this project. We work hard to remember and commemorate our heroes.”

PHYLLIS PURDY Phyllis Purdy was born in 1893 in Hastings and was the eldest of nine children. According to the 1911 census, Phyllis was working as a “needlewoman” in Anerley in Penge.

She became a member of the Women’s Royal Air Force when it formed in 1918. On December 8, 1918, Phyllis died at the age of 25 from pneumonia and exhaustion at the Union Infirmary in Greenwich.

At the time of her death, Phyllis’ home address was registered in Brockley.

She was buried on December 13, 1918 in Plot Z, Grave 313 in Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery.

WILLIAM JACKSON

William Jackson was born in 1883. He married Mary Ann Gould in Camberwell in 1905 and together they had five children.

He was recorded in the 1911 census as living in Brockley with his wife and two of their eldest children. At the time he was working as a carman.

William joined the army on July 29, 1916 where he served as a Private with the Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment and later transferred to the Labour Corps.

According to the Local History and Archives Centre, William was discharged on April 24, 1919 because he was no longer physically fit for service, having suffered from rheumatic fever and a dilated heart.

He died on June 3, 1920 at the 4th London General Hospital at the age of 37. He was buried in Plot Z, Grave 331 at Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery.

Charles was married to Winifred Gerhardt and they lived in South Bermondsey.

Before World War One he reportedly worked as a stevedore, a labourer who loads and unloads cargo from ships.

He died on April 5, 1921 at the age of 37.

He is buried in Plot Z, Grave 390 at Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery.

THE 20 OTHER SOLDIERS Other soldiers who will receive their own headstones include: •

B Davis, Plot Z, Grave 44 – Served as a Sapper for the Royal Engineers who died on October 12, 1920, age unknown

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Thomas B Wright, Plot Z, Grave 368 – Served as a Driver for the Royal Engineers who died on July 27, 1919, aged 24

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Henry Charles Winder, Plot Z, Grave 198 – Served as a Private in the London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers who died on October 22, 1916 at the age of 24

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Owen Stanley Curtis, Plot Z, Grave 360 – Served as a leading telegraphist in the Royal Navy, HMS Victory who died on June 4, 1920, aged 26

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T Fung / Funge, Plot Z, Grave 245 – Served as a Private

CHARLES GERHARDT Before World War One, Charles Gerhardt had previously served in the 3rd Battalion of the East Surreys.

Lewisham’s Local History and Archives Centre states that he joined the regular army and was posted to the Royal Garrison Artillery.

He was discharged in February 1913 but re-enlisted when the war broke out, where he served as a Private in the Royal Defence Corps.

NEWS Royal Garrison Artillery who died on July 13, 1916 aged 38

Lewisham Council's Bereavement Services have been working closely with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to track down World War One heroes

for the Northamptonshire Regiment and later transferred to the Labour Corps who died on October 21, 1917, age unknown •

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L G Sheldrake, Plot Z, Grave 387 – Served as a Private in the Royal Sussex Regiment who died on October 22, 1920, aged 40 Reuben Harvey, Plot Z, Grave 331 – Served as a Private in the Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, Third Battalion who died on May 15, 1920, aged 49 Alfred James Hoare, Plot Z,

Grave 19 Served as a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery who died on December 1, 1919, aged 27 •

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Harold T Mann, Plot Z, Grave 361 – Served as a Private for the County Yeomanry and then the Middlesex Hussars who died on May 16, 1920, age unknown

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Edward Smith, Plot Z, Grave 369 – Served as a Gunner in the Royal Field Artillery who died on June 6, 1919, aged 27

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W J Franklin, Plot Z, Grave 260 – Served as a Private in the Royal Defence Corps who died on January 16, 1920, aged 41

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E Southwood, Plot Z, Grave 291 – Served as a Bombardier in the Royal Field Artillery who died on February 10, 1918, aged 25

The following soldiers will also receive their own headstones, however there is little information about where they served online:

William Smith, Plot Z, Grave 261 – Served as a Private in the Royal Army Service Corps who died on December 2, 1919, aged 48 Arthur Robert Whithead, Plot Z, Grave 261 – Served as a Private in the 14th Battalion Welsh Regiment who died on December 7, 1919, aged 30 Walter Lake, Plot Z, Grave 188 – Served as a Gunner for the

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D Bruce, Plot Z, Grave 320

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J French, Plot Z, Grave 284

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J Hoare, Plot Z, Grave 210

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W W Rawson, Plot Z, Grave 307

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Edward Charles Winder, Plot Z, Grave 316

commemoration and in the UK alone, there are Commonwealth War Graves at around 12,500 sites.

The council told the LDRS that one of the graves, Plot Z, Grave 101, has two other soldiers buried in it. This grave contains a World War One soldier listed as Foxwell, and another soldier called Leslie Charles Foxwell, who served as a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force during World War Two – he currently has his own headstone.

“We work closely with local authorities and landowners up and down the country to care for the graves of the fallen. At Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery, we have commemorated 23 casualties on a screen wall for many years, as their individual graves have been inaccessible.”

Leslie Charles Foxwell died on September 7, 1942, aged 20 when his Spitfire aircraft accidentally collided over the English Channel in mid-air with another Spitfire which was being flown by Pilot Officer Horace Harwood, who also died in the incident.

Leslie Charles Foxwell is the only one of the 25 names not on the screen wall because he served in the Second World War and has his own headstone. The LDRS understands the two Foxwell soldiers will be commemorated under the same memorial when the changes are made.

I THINK I MAY BE RELATED, HOW DO I GET IN TOUCH? If someone believes they may be related to any of the names, they can visit the CWGC website appeals page and can email enquiries@cwgc.org A spokesperson for CWGC said: “The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is a world leader in

They added: “Therefore we are delighted to be working with Lewisham Council on this project and, though this is still in the early stages, we look forward to being able to mark these casualties’ individual graves once more.”

A spokesperson for the Friends of Ladywell and Brockley Cemetery said: “The FoBLC Committee is delighted to have been able to work with Bereavement Services and the CWCG on this issue.

“Our charity is dedicated to caring for and improving all aspects of the two cemeteries. We are pleased that our views on how to develop and care for this area of Brockley Cemetery have been taken fully in to account and our members will contribute to maintaining the area around the new headstones as a wildflower meadow to be enjoyed by all in the future.”

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The bestest baddie in town is back!

The same team that saw Anthony Spargo last year win the Best Panto Script award are now at Greenwich Theatre with their adaption of Peter Pan, writes Michael Holland...

On this occasion Anthony Spargo not only wrote it but plays Hook where he can once again be the best baddie in town.

Greenwich Theatre has become quite legendary in how it has created a family with its loyal panto audience.

They return each year knowing they will get a good show that will entertain everybody of all ages.

And that show will be in your face innuendo, lots of wink and nudge campology to give Hook an opportunity to get gags in that will land with laughter or fly on to deaf ears, which only gives him the chance to make another eye-rolling joke out of it. He is the master at this, his twelfth panto here. He can do quick fire gags just as well as visual jokes for the younger ones, such as marching military mops or a talking parrot on his shoulder.

Anthony Spargo will use and abuse anything for the sake of getting laughs out of an audience - Even shooting a seagull out of the sky!

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Yes, the majority of people might come to see Mr Spargo do his thing, but they also get to see great work from the other regulars, Sam Bailey and Louise Cielecki, while listening to the fantastic Steve Markwick, Gordon Parrish and Chris Wyles providing a soundtrack that includes Rose Royce, The Who, Springsteen, Queen, Madonna, Sister Sledge, Tina Turner, and lots of listens to Alright by

Supergrass that tells of being young and free - the overriding subject of Peter Pan. The SFX are now famous for being as hilarious as they are purposely cheap.

Tinkerbell disappearing in a puff of smoke, the alien spaceship taking off or the talking parrot being used as a guinea pig for the magic elixir, created more guffaws than feelings of awe.

And that is exactly what we want. It is why we come back every year.

Plus, there is an ensemble of four from local conservatoire, Trinity Laban; most getting their professional stage debut here. That in itself is magical.

One highlight for me was ‘Steve’s Lava Chicken’ song that I was completely unaware of. My young companion Tommy P, however, knew all the words and movements, which he performed with gusto when our half of the auditorium had to out-sing the other half.

I was absolutely amazed at how he had learned the words so quickly until he explained that it is from a film that he knows very well.

Everything is feelgood at Greenwich, not just the happy ending. It is a must for Christmas.

This adaption starts with Wendy Darling’s great-granddaughter is working in Neverclean Car Wash and never happy on

her minimum wage working for a nasty boss who makes her take off the flashing Acorn pendant given to her by her greatgrandmother, the original Wendy Darling.

While it hangs on the bumper of a dirty old car it attracts the ever-youthful boy who never grows up, Peter Pan. Everybody has moved on since Captain Hook and Peter Pan first battled it out in a fight between good and evil.

Hook is now 60 and feeling ancient and unwanted as a pirate with no evil to get involved in. Until that is, Tinkerbell (who magically glides around the stage on Wheelie Shoes) gets jealous as Peter and Wendy are drawn closer together.

She makes sure Hook gets some of her Elixir of Life to put fire back into his bones and want to fight Pan one more time. This, she hopes, will get rid of the innocent Wendy.

Journeys into Enchanted Forests and meetings with a Yoda-like alien to find the secret of eternal youth ensue and each step into the unknown is echoed with a joke of unknown age.

Greenwich Theatre until January 11th.

Tickets are £22.50 children / £37.50 concessions / £43.50 standard Open to all ages Running time : 2hrs 10mins Booking and full details: greenwichtheatre.org.uk

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Find a Christmas gift for the art-lover in your life Bermondsey Artists’ Group co-founder Louise Sheridan will be exhibiting some of her Thamesbased paintings in a group show of original artworks that opened last week at Blackheath’s newly reopened Gallery White Box, writes Michael Holland...

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This is the gallery’s final show of 2025 and presents a variety of contemporary paintings, prints, sculptures, and kinetic works embracing art brut, abstract expressionism, and make-believe landscapes.

A visit to witness the show in person (a few doors down from the Hare & Billet Pub) is highly recommended, but many of the works are also available to purchase online at gallerywhitebox.co.uk/art-shop.

Works are available to view or purchase, and the gallery will also host a pair of workshops exploring the intersection of colour, painting, and psychodynamics, led by Christa Leask and Hannah Simons.

The workshops can also be booked via the gallery’s website (gallerywhitebox.co.uk/ workshops), and you may catch a glimpse of the show on Instagram at @gallerywhitebox.

“Altogether, we believe it will be an inspiring chance to brighten the colder days, to find a Christmas gift for the art-lover in your life, or to embolden your home collection in the new year,” says the gallery’s curator, Aleksandra Niemczyk.

Gallery White Box, 5 Hare and Billet Road, Blackheath, London, SE3 0RB from December 12 to January 12. Open Friday – Sunday, 11-6pm.

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The winter show will offer a chance to revisit artists who’ve exhibited at the gallery in 2025, including Kathleen Taylor, Amabel Barlow, Aleksandra Niemczyk, and Andrea Resner, and to look ahead to artists who will exhibit in 2026, like Richard Lawrence, Steve Joy, Belinda Smith, and Louise Sheridan, whose studio overlooks the river at Rotherhithe and will have four river paintings in the exhibition.

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Information from the Royal Borough of Greenwich for our residents

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To order, email hello@roots4life.org You can also call or message 07388 329904 Where: The Baker Centre, 245 Footscray Road SE9 2EL

Holiday Meals Free lunches are available for all children and young people in our borough during the school holidays.

Just turn up and tuck in! Find your local at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/holidaymeals

Call 030 330 7019 or check healthystart.nhs.uk

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1: The venue is using local suppliers such as Mont58 Coffee and Catford Rhum Arrange Credit: Lewisham Council 2: The Catford House opened on November 19, 2025 Credit: Lewisham Council 3: A look inside the newlyrefurbished venue Credit: Lewisham Council

Catford House now opened after major refurbishment Featuring pub, landscaped garden and smaller spaces which can be used for workshops or smaller bookings

A former constitutional club in South East London has been restored and has reopened as a new pub following a major refurbishment, writes Ruby Gregory, Local DemocracyReporter...

A former constitutional club in South East London has been restored and has reopened as a new pub following a major refurbishment.

The Catford House, formerly the Catford Constitutional Club, was forced to close in 2019 as it was suffering from structural and safety problems.

Since then, work has been under way to transform the locally listed building into a new, accessible space for the local community.

The new venue, which opened on November 19, features a refurbished pub hall, a landscaped garden, a newly installed lift and smaller spaces which can be used for workshops or smaller bookings. The venue can also be hired for private parties and will host pop-up events, fitness classes, workshops, exhibitions and more.

The project was supported using funding from Lewisham Council and

a £1.8million contribution from the Mayor of London’s Good Grown Fund.

Greenwich Co-operative Development Agency (GCDA), a not-for-profit organisation is managing the new venue and has a track record of successfully running other local spots such as The Woolwich Front Room and the Woolwich Common Community Centre.

Claire Pritchard, CEO of GCDA, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “Our vision is to create a pub with purpose, a 21st century social club, where good food and good conversation go hand in hand with community action. At a time when so many public spaces are disappearing, we want The Catford House to remain open and accessible to all.

“We hope The Catford House becomes a blueprint for what’s possible when communities take charge of their own spaces and futures.

GCDA’s approach is about working with communities, not just in them — listening, learning, and building together. This is just the beginning.”

The new venue is supporting businesses from the area by sourcing from suppliers such as as Mont58 Coffee and Catford Rhum Arrange. The Catford House has also partnered with Portobello Brewery, operators of the nearby Catford Bridge Tavern, to help stock the bar.

Maya Haiman-Eilon, who co-founded Mont58 Coffee with her husband, Shai, said: “We’re absolutely delighted to be supplying coffee to Catford House. As a local independent roastery, it means so much to partner with another business that’s investing in our community.

“We can’t wait for Catford to enjoy great coffee in such a fantastic new space.”

Cllr James-J Walsh, Lewisham Council’s Cabinet Member for Inclusive Regeneration and Planning said:

“The opening of The Catford House is an important step forward. More than a pub, it’s a space for everyday life, to meet friends and family, enjoy food and drink, learn new skills, support local creatives and feel part of a safer, more vibrant Catford.

“That’s why we chose a cooperative, not-for-profit operator to manage this venue for us. This transformation led by the council, with support from the GLA [Greater London Authority], brings a historic building back into public use.

“GCDA, as the new housekeepers, will now help shape its future alongside our residents. The Catford House shows our ongoing commitment to regeneration that puts local people first.”

The Catford House has the following opening times: Monday to Thursday: 5pm to 11pm Friday: 3pm to 12am Saturday 12pm to 12am Sunday: 12pm to 11pm

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Information from the Royal Borough of Greenwich for our residents

Bin collections and your guide to council opening hours over Christmas 2025-2026 Over Christmas, most council services will continue to run, although some will have adjusted opening hours.

Here’s everything you need to know about using local services over the holidays.

Waste collections and recycling

�� Monday 22 December – collected as normal �� Tuesday 23 December – collected as normal �� Wednesday 24 December – collected as normal �� Thursday 25 December (Christmas Day) – collected on Saturday 27 December �� Friday 26 December (Boxing Day) – collected on Sunday 28 December �� Monday 29 December – collected as normal �� Tuesday 30 December – collected as normal �� Wednesday 31 December – collected as normal �� Thursday 1 January (New Year’s Day) – collected on Friday 2 January �� Friday 2 January – collected on

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The Woolwich Centre will be open as normal apart from bank holidays and weekends.

The cemetery office will be closed from Thursday 25 December to Saturday 27 December and again on Thursday 1 January 2025. Outside these dates, it will operate with reduced hours.

The Eltham Centre will be closed on Monday 22 December and Wednesday 31 December, and on Wednesday 24 December it will close early at 2pm. On other weekdays, it will be open as usual, excluding bank holidays and weekends.

When closed, an out of hours service will be available by calling 020 8854 8888.

Saturday 3 January

Bulky collections and deliveries will be closed from Wednesday 24 December and reopen on Monday 5 January.

Adventure Play Centres

Clinical waste collections will continue over the holiday period but will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

Closed from Monday 22 December to Friday 26 December.

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Advice Hubs The last Advice Hub session for 2025 will take place at the Forum on Monday 22 December.

The Reuse and Recycling Centre in Nathan Way is open Monday to Friday, 8am to 6.30pm; Saturday, 8am to 5pm; and Sunday, 9am to 4.30pm. It will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.

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Eltham Crematorium and Cemetery Grounds will be open from 9am to 4pm daily, including Christmas and New Year’s Day. The Chapel and Garden of Remembrance will close 15 minutes before site closure.

The first Advice Hub session for 2026 will take place at the Forum on Monday 5 January.

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Parks

Repairs and caretaking services will operate as normal until Wednesday 24 December, after which an emergency out-of-hours service will run from Thursday 25 December to Sunday 28 December.

Between Wednesday 24 December and Thursday 1 January, opening times may vary, so please check before visiting.

The Tarn, Fairy Hill Park, Southwood Park, Hornfair Park, St Alfeges Park, St Mary’s and Plumstead Gardens will be closed on Christmas Day. All other parks and open spaces will remain open.

For repairs, there will be an additional emergency out-of-hours service between Thursday 1 January and Sunday 4 January. Normal office hours will operate from Monday 5 January.

The freephone line to report firsttime repairs is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (excluding bank holidays): 0808 175 6915.

Request a repair online: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/housing/ request-repair Tenancy services will be closed on bank holidays and weekends but open from 9am to 5pm otherwise.

All leisure centres will be closed on Monday 22 December, Thursday 25 December, and Friday 26 December, except Sutcliffe Park, which will be open with reduced hours on Wednesday 24 December.

On Thursday 25 December and Wednesday 31 December, Coldharbour and Plumstead Centre will be closed.

These opening hours do not include the brand-new Woolwich Waves; which opens on Thursday 1 January.

Check opening hours and book sessions: better.org.uk/leisurecentre/london/greenwich

The following housing services will provide emergency support from 9am to 5pm between Monday 22 December and Wednesday 31 December, excluding bank holidays and weekends:

Libraries

help for people who are homeless and need urgent advice or assistance.

Temporary Accommodation – emergency support for urgent queries or repair issues.

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Charlton House Library will be closed from Monday 22 December until Friday 26 December as well as Sunday 28 December and Wednesday 31 December.

An out-of-hours emergency housing service is also available by calling 020 8854 8888 (24-hour line).

On Wednesday 24 December and Wednesday 31 December, all libraries (except Charlton House Library) will open with reduced hours.

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All libraries will be closed on Monday 22 December, Wednesday 24 December, Thursday 25 December, and Friday 26 December.

Thamesmere, Greenwich, and Plumstead Libraries will operate reduced hours on Tuesday 23 December, Wednesday 24 December, and Tuesday 30 December.

Eltham Library will operate reduced hours on Tuesday 23 December and Wednesday 24 December.

Check full opening hours: better.org. uk/library/london/greenwich

Healthcare and emergencies If you need advice or medication for minor health concerns such as coughs, colds, upset stomach, aches or pains, visit your local pharmacy. Many are open late and at weekends and you do not need an appointment.

For non-life-threatening conditions, call NHS 111 first.

Mental health and wellbeing support If you need support or have concerns about your mental health over the festive period, call Live Well Greenwich on 0800 470 4831.

The service is open from 9am to 3pm and will be closed from Thursday 25 December to Friday 26 December and on Sunday 28 December and Thursday 1 January: livewellgreenwich.org.uk

HISTORY

Celebrating the right to walk along the Thames Mary Mills

I think I would like to start this week by congratulating Greenwich Council on their new review of the Riverside path: Rethinking the Riverside - A Review of the Thames Path.It’s a great document which reports on the path, following a great deal of public consultation, as well as looking at the views of various organisations with an interest - people from Greenwich University and others.

I would very much like to congratulate Councillor Maisie Richards Cottell on having managed to get such a detailed work researched and published as part of her role as Chair of the Transport and Place Scrutiny Panel.

I probably shouldn’t say this - but when I was Chairing the predecessor Scrutiny Panel, fifteen years ago, producing such a document would have been beyond unthinkable! But there you go! Having said all those congratulations I also think that they’ve missed some important issues about the path and some very, very major problems - which is not to detract from what they’ve done so far. They’ve done a wonderful job consulting with the public, but there are others out there who will have to be dealt with. Sorry.

So – I guess you will wonder why I should put myself forward beyond my role as a member of the public. I will give a little bit of my own biographical details on this and my work on the path as a historian – I’m afraid the University will say ‘amateur historian’ - and the background to the use of the path with some of the legal issues and public participation over the previous centuries.

In the 1980s and 1990s I worked for an organisation which monitored development in London Docklands.

Some of our staff managed to get questions asked in the House of

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1970s councilliors walk along the path –in the Victoria Deep Water terminal

Commons about the terrible mess which Tower Hamlets was making of their riverside path. Part of my job was going to meetings with what was then the London Rivers Authority – (later after the GLC was closed down it was ‘Association’).

I particularly remember a report they did comparing various riverside walks in foreign capitals and I wonder what happened to that research -but they did much else. I wrote and self published a riverside walk around the Peninsula about this time. I was first elected to the Council in 2000 and there was then a full time officer working on the Riverside path. Inevitably the funding for his salary ran out.

Gunpowder Depot c.1750 on Enderby wharf site. Leisure use of the riverside

When I came off the council 10 years ago I tried to set up a Friends of the Riverside Walk group and we had a couple of meetings, but some hostility was quite clear and I abandoned it - which I’m sorry about now.

I guess it was originally just a walk along the river wall - and we have no idea how old that is. In 1867 the Court of Queen’s Bench heard that it was there at the time of Norman Conquest and for all they knew it was Roman. The public have walked it ever since, but now they no longer walk on the river edge because of the need for a cycle path and ‘health and safety’.

The oldest pictures which I know of which show people on the

path are two of the 17th century gunpowder works (then on the site of Enderbys). In them people are taking the dog for a walk, sketching, chatting... or just, well, walking.

A few years ago the Enderby Group did a footfall survey on the path – and things haven’t really changed, except for the bicycles.

Ian Nairn was a 1960s troublemaking architectural commentator with a short lived

TV show. He describes the path starting at the Blackwall Tunnel’s ‘pretty art nouveau gatehouse’ then says the walk goes down a passage alongside the Delta Metal Company “which zigs and it zags and it doesn’t give up and eventually comes out at the river”. I remember that passage well. When I worked at Delta Metal in 1970 the path there was modernised and paved, but totally isolated from the rest. That is now the site of the golf course.

Nairn talks about the path taking “exciting forms... between walls... under cranes...n ipping round the back of a boatyard’. Much of that stretch was straightened out in the 1980s. “A continuous flirtation with the slow moving river choked with working boats”, (if only!)

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Enderby Wharf 1960s cable over the path to ships

which Greenwich Council went to court with in the 1990s when the then occupants blocked it and the right of way was declared again.

North of this in 1868 Lewis and Stockwell Shipbuilders built a large dry dock (where the hotel is now) and this interrupted the river path. I don’t know how this was resolved by the Vestry who thought it was ‘not a good idea to give up these old rights in a hurry’ but thought new employment opportunities were important.

(Nothing changes, it really doesn’t).

the shipbuilders, Maudslay Son and Field, who had blocked the path.

They were on the site we now call Bay Wharf where they built Cutty Sark’s two sisters, Hallowe’en and Blackadder. The case had huge public support, with the gallery crowded with local people shouting and clapping. Mr. Soames, whose soap works was on the site of the later sugar refinery, said that companies would go out of business if the public could walk along the riverside past them. The Court and Lord Chief Justice Cockburn didn’t agree and declared in favour of the right of way. It is the same stretch

When the Gas Works was built in the 1890s on what is now the site of the Dome, the riverside path was closed right round its site.

Following an enquiry in the House of Lords Ordinance Draw Dock was built by the gas company as compensation for the closure. I hope Greenwich residents visit the draw dock - which is still a right of way despite scary notices from the people in the Dome and the hotel.

As for Nairn he got to the “final exciting stretch past Greenwich Power station and another good Riverside pub , The Yacht”. Then he says “God preserve it from the prettifiers” and, in a footnote “’they’ are trying to close it. Walk it as you would a country path, till they are sick to the guts”.

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n SHIPBUILDING IN GREENWICH – A shortish run through those who built ships in our borough and what they built on. It covers two Royal Dockyards, to those who built single sailing barges, and those who built into the 1990s. £10

n THE INDUSTRIES OF DEPTFORD CREEK. A siteby-site description of this amazingly busy Creekside between its mouth with the Thames and the Lewisham border. It includes industries of national importance, from the medieval to electronics pioneers - and the downright quirky. £15

n GEORGE LIVESEY - A BIOGRAPHY. The life of South London’s maverick 19th century gas works manager, who forced the privately owned industry to work in partnership with the public and with its workforce. There is nothing in the industry he didn’t change.

This is about a man who wanted to change society – but in 1889 got it very wrong. £10. Illustrated. £15

n THE GREENWICH RIVERSIDE – UPPER WATERGATE TO ANGERSTEIN. A siteby-site description of the Greenwich Riverside between Deptford to Charlton. This is not yet another description of Royal Greenwich but looks at riverside communities, industries and river workers – as well less known site histories. £15

n GREENWICH PENINSULA - GREENWICH MARSH. A HISTORY OF AN INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND. This is a rewrite of my all-time bestseller Greenwich Marsh, to include the Dome. It describes the history of the Marsh and the industries which grew up there in the 19th century, including Enderby Wharf and the telecommunications revolution, as well as the amazing gas works and much else. £10

Available via Amazon The council have intermittently taken an interest in the path very much because of individual councillors. In the 1970s there was a councillors’ walk along the path set up by the late Derek Penfold.

There are photographs but most of the participants are now sadly no longer with us – a young Jim Gilman... librarian Barbara Ludlow.

It is only recently that’s the path has been seen as going right through the Borough on the riverside. The walk which Derek organised just went round the peninsula. You could get to Cutty Sark but what was then the Royal Naval College was locked and barred and bolted. I think the stretch through Charlton to the Barrier was probably in existence but I have a feeling that it wasn’t really possible to walk it but I’m not sure why. There was no way of walking into Woolwich and there was a long term blockage which

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was only resolved a few years ago.

You couldn’t walk through what is now the Dockyard estate and nor could you walk at all along the riverfront in Woolwich and you certainly couldn’t put your nose in the Arsenal or you would have been removed with a military escort.

So where does this all leave us ?

What can this new report add? For one thing I’m very glad to see there is quite a bit of criticism of cyclists – for far too long many cyclists have claimed that they are so green in their method of transport it’s perfectly OK for them to run you over if they feel like it. And I write that as someone who cycled up to London every morning in the 1980s.

So what should happen next – I think they do need to look at river users.

There are a number of sports clubs – the rowers, the yacht club, the kayakers and others. But more than

them they must talk to the people who use the river as a workplace.

It’s very easy to think that the working river has gone – and it’s a minute fraction of what it many of us will remember - but the river remains our biggest asset and we need to be careful what we do and remember that it will be here will be all gone and it will serve other communities.

In the short term now we need to consider very carefully what is built on the Riverside and we need to preserve all of the traditional access points, many of which are covered by specialist legislation.

We need to be quite clear that the sea wall is not a proper place for willow trees – this is not a babbling brook! We need to make sure that the public understands that this is one of the major commercial rivers of the world.

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PUBLIC NOTICES ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 – SECTION 247 PROPOSED STOPPING UP OF THE HIGHWAY- (ROYAL ARSENAL RIVERSIDE) 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make an Order under section 247 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 ("the Act"), entitled the Royal Borough of Greenwich (Stopping Up of Highways) (No. *) (Royal Arsenal Riverside) Order 202*.

2. The general effect of the Order would be to authorise the stopping-up of two areas of the highway shown edged and hatched in black on the deposited plan as follows: (a) The major part is of irregular shape and lies on the eastern side of Bell Water Gate from the junction of Bell Water Gate and Woolwich High Street extending north-westwards, northwards and north-eastwards having a maximum length of 30.62 metres and a maximum width of 2.38 metres. E: 543392.968 N: 179277.110 to E: 543402.097 N: 179247.886 (b) The second part is also of irregular shape and lies at the north-easternmost extent of Bell Water Gate shown on the deposited plan, having a maximum length of 13.57 metres and a maximum width of 6.42 metres. E: 543398.456 N: 179292.386 to E: 543394.834 N: 179279.310

Town & Country Planning Act 1990 (AS AMENDED) Town & Country Planning (Development Management Procedure)(England) Order 2015 Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (AS AMENDED) Planning (Listed Buildings & Conservation Areas) Regulations 1990 (AS AMENDED) Notice is hereby given that application(s) have been made to The Royal Borough of Greenwich in respect of the under mentioned premises/sites.

You can see the submissions and any plans at http://www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/planning.

If development proposals affect Conservation Areas and/or Statutorily Listed Buildings under the Planning (Listed Building and Conservation Area) Act 1990 (As Amended) this will be shown within the item below.

Anyone who wishes to comment on these applications should be made in writing to Development Planning within 24 days of the date of this notice.

The term “stopping up” means that these areas of highway would cease to be public highway.

Please quote the appropriate reference number.

3. If the Order is made, the stopping up would only be authorised in order to enable the provision of the development described in the Schedule to this Notice to be carried out in accordance with the planning permissions reference 16/3025/MA and 16/3024/R granted on 17th March 2017 and 20th March 2017.

4. Further information may be obtained by telephoning Strategic Transportation on 020 8921 2103.

5. A copy of the proposed Order and the relevant plan are available for inspection by any person, free of charge, during normal office hours until the expiry of those normal office hours on 14 January 2026 at the Directorate of Communities, Environment and Central, Strategic Transportation, Royal Borough of Greenwich, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ. 6 Any person who wishes to object to the making of the proposed Order should send a statement in writing by 14 January 2026, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made, to the Council at the following address: Directorate Communities, Environment and Central, Strategic Transportation, Royal Borough of Greenwich, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ, or by email to Hamish.Robertson@royalgreenwich.gov.uk quoting reference PCL/SUO/ 1000011050).

7. Persons objecting to the proposed Order should be aware that in view of the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection.

Date: 17/12/2025 Victoria Geoghegan Assistant Director - Planning and Building Control List of Press Advertisements - 17/12/2025

Publicity for Planning Applications Applicant: Site Address:

Mr Agron Ahmetaj 25/1782/F LAND TO THE REAR OF NORTH POLE, 131 GREENWICH HIGH ROAD, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8JA Development: Change of Use of the existing site to a Car Valeting Business (Use Class Sui Generis), including installation of external canopies, re-tarmacing, landscaping, installation of new off-street car parking spaces, implementation of petrol interceptor, new fencing and boundary treatment, implementation of office space, and associated external works and alterations.

Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE

Assistant Director, Strategic Transportation The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ Dated 17 December 2025 SCHEDULE (DESCRIPTION OF DEVELOPMENT – see paragraph 3 above) The Development “Royal Arsenal Riverside” is a mixed-use development comprising 2,032 units and 2,442 (GEA) sqm of non-residential floor space (A1/A2/A3/A4/B1/D1 Use), access, landscaping, public accessible open space, car and cycle parking provision and refuse and recycling storage areas.

Applicant: Site Address:

Statutory Port Authority 25/3049/F THAMES BARRIER NAVIGATION CENTRE, COMMUNICATIONS TOWER SITE, UNIT 28, 34 BOWATER ROAD, WOOLWICH, LONDON SE18 5TF Development: Construction of single storey building to house a new equipment room and generator for the Port of London Authority (PLA) existing Thames Barrier Navigation Centre Communications Tower site.

Conservation Area: THAMES BARRIER & BOWATER ROAD

Stopping Up is required of an area of the east side of Bell Water Gate to facilitate the development. Built form approved under Reserved Matters Approval reference 16/3024/R will occupy the public highway to the full extent of the area to be stopped up. An alternative elevated pedestrian route will provide access over the completed development to the adjacent development plots and through to the River Thames.

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Mr Richard Smith 25/3333/MA 21 GLOUCESTER CIRCUS, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8RY 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 01/07/2025 (Ref. 24/4147/F) for demolition of an existing single storey garage and construction of a single-storey 1-bedroom 1-person studio house at the rear of No. 21 Gloucester Circus; other associated alterations. to allow; Amendment to Condition 2 (Approved Drawings) for the -Addition of rooflights and solar panels on the roof -Enlargement of the living room Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

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Dov Goldenberg 25/3700/F 82 BRAMBLEBURY ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 7TG Development: Erection of a single-storey 3m rear infill extension and 3m rear extension, formation of an L-shaped dormer extension to the rear roof slope with rooflights to the front elevation, together with associated refuse and cycle storage, and change of use from a single-family dwelling (Use Class C3) to a large House in Multiple Occupation (Sui Generis) for 7 occupants (7 rooms), with all external materials to match the existing building.

Conservation Area: PLUMSTEAD COMMON Applicant: Miss & Mr Richardson / Sapienza 25/3890/F Site Address: 1 LANGDALE ROAD, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8UA Development: Conversion of existing two flats within the property into a single family dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) including installation of rooflights to front and rear roof slopes and alterations to window/door openings to the rear of the property and associated external alterations.

Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE Applicant: Site Address: Development:

The Hyde Group 25/4006/F 3 MOIRA ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1SJ Replacement of the front timber door with a like for like FD30 fire door.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

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Mr Gyorgy Szivuljak 25/3456/HD 45 GRANBY ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 1EH Proposed single storey rear and side extensions and the addition of rooflights to the rear elevation.

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Licensing Team, 1st Floor,Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London SE18 6HQ.Tel: 020 8921 8018; Fax: 020 8921 8380; Email: licensing@royalgreenwich.gov.uk NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR A PREMISES LICENCE LICENSING ACT 2003 Notice is given that: Mr Toby Akingbade has applied for the Grant of a Premises Licence for the following premises: Checkers Afro-Caribbean Store, Unit 2,Thames Reach,Thamesmead, SE28 0NY. A record of this application may be inspected by appointment.

Other persons may make representations to the Council on this application by no later than Saturday, 3 January 2026 (last date for making representations). Representations can be made in writing, by email or fax using the contact details above. Representations can only be made on the grounds of one or more of the four licensing objectives, namely: • Prevention of Crime and Disorder • Prevention of Public Nuisance • Public Safety • Protection of Children from Harm Any person who makes a false statement in connection with an application is liable on summary conviction to an unlimited fine.

It is proposed that the following licensable activity will take place at the premises: Off-Sale and Supply of Alcohol between 08:00 and 23:00 hours daily, in line with opening times.

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PUBLIC NOTICES ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH The Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) (Amendment No. 147) Order 2025 The Greenwich (Charged For-Parking Places) (Amendment No. 155) Order 2025 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) has made the above mentioned Orders under sections 6, 45, 46, 49, 124 and Part IV of Schedule 9 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, as amended. The Order will come into operation on 18th December 2025.

2. The general effect of the Orders would be to: a) Replace part of the Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm (E) bay with No Waiting Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm restrictions at the following locations: i. Balcaskie Road, south-west side, from a point 2.1 metres north-west of the common boundary of Nos. 26 and 28 Balcaskie Road for 7.1 metres in a north-westerly direction. b) Introduce a Disabled Badge Holders Only bay at the following locations: i. Eglinton Road, east side, from a point 6.7 metres south of the southern property boundary of No. 146 Eglinton Road for 6.6 metres in a southerly direction. ii. Ankerdine Crescent, west side, from a point 0.2 metres south of the property boundary of Nos. 110 and 112 Ankerdine Crescent for 6.6 metres in a northerly direction. iii. Queenscroft Road, south-west side, from a point 1 metre south-east of the north-western property boundary of Nos. 150 and 152 Queenscroft Road for 6.6 metres in a south-easterly direction. iv. Indus Road, south-east side, from a point 1.3 metres north-east of the common boundary of Nos. 68 and 70 Indus Road for 6.6 metres in a north-easterly direction. v. Godstow Road fronting Nos. 90 to 96 Godstow Road, east side, from a point 17.5 metres south of its junction with Godstow Road for 6.6 metres in a southerly direction. vi. Godstow Road fronting Nos. 90 to 96 Godstow Road, east side, from a point 24.1 metres south of its junction with Godstow Road for 6.6 metres in a southerly direction. vii. Hinstock Road, north side, from a point 10 metres east of its junction with Plum Lane for 6.6 metres in an easterly direction. viii. Newmarket Green fronting Nos. 15 and 17 Newmarket Green, south-west side, from a point 9 metres south-east of its junction with Newmarket Green for 6.6 metres in a south-easterly direction. ix. Highbrook Road, north-east side, from the common boundary of Nos. 11 and 13 Highbrook Road for 6.6 metres in a south-easterly direction. c) Introduce No waiting at any time restrictions at the following locations: i. Godstow Road fronting Nos. 90 to 96 Godstow Road, west side, from a point 9.9 metres south of its junction with Godstow Road for 12 metres in a southerly direction. ii. Godstow Road fronting Nos. 90 to 96 Godstow Road, east side, from a point 9.9 metres south of its junction with Godstow Road for 7.6 metres in a southerly direction. iii. Godstow Road fronting Nos. 90 to 96 Godstow Road, south side, at the southern end of the Road. d) Introduce a Free Parking Place on Godstow Road fronting Nos. 90 to 96 Godstow Road, west side, from a point 21.9 metres south of its junction with Godstow Road for 12.5 metres in a southerly direction.? e) Revoke the existing Disabled Badge Holders Only bay at the following locations: i. Eglinton Road, east side, from a point 15.2 metres south of the southern property boundary of No. 146 Eglinton Road for 6.6 metres in a southerly direction. ii. Tuam Road, north side, outside No. 65 Tuam Road. f) Replace the Disabled Badge Holders Only bay with a Permit Holders or Limited Waiting Mon-Sat 9am-6.30pm Max stay 2 Hours No return within 3 hours Zone C bay on Wyndcliff Road, west side, from a point 9.5 metres south of its junction with Bramshot Avenue for 6.5 metres in a southerly direction. g) Replace the No Waiting Mon-Sat 9am-6.30pm restriction with a Permit Holders or Limited Waiting Mon-Sat 9am-6.30pm Max stay 2 Hours No return within 3 hours Zone C bay on Wyndcliff Road, west side, from a point 25.2 metres south of its junction with Bramshot Avenue for 6.8 metres in a southerly direction. h) Replace the No Waiting Mon-Sat 9am-6.30pm restriction with a Disabled Badge Holders Only bay on Spray Street, south-west side, from a point 0.4 metres south-east of the common boundary of Nos. 52 and 54 Spray Street for 6.6 metres in a south-easterly direction. i) Replace the Disabled Badge Holders Only bay with a Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 9.30am-11am Zone N bay on Colyer Close fronting Nos. 2 to 32 Colyer Close, south-west side, from the north-western property boundary of No. 16 Colyer Close for 3.7 metres in a south- easterly direction. j) Replace part of the Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 11am-1pm Zone AH bay with a Disabled Badge Holders Only bay on Bexley Road, south side, from a point 31.6 metres west of its junction with Alderwood Road for 6.6 metres in a westerly direction. k) Replace part of the Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 11am-1pm Zone AH bay with a No waiting at any time restriction on Bexley Road, south side, from a point 38.2 metres west of its junction with Alderwood Road for 4.7 metres in a westerly direction. l) Replace part of the Limited Waiting 30 Mins No Return 1 Hour Mon-Sat 8am-5.30pm bay with a Disabled Badge Holders Only Max Stay 2 Hours No Return 3 Hours bay on Westmount Road, east side, from a point 0.5 metres south of the common boundary of Nos. 108 and 110 Westmount Road for 6.6 metres in a southerly direction. m) Replace part of the Resident Permit Holders Only Mon-Sat 9am-5pm and Sun 9am-6pm Zone G bay with a Disabled Badge Holders Only bay on Randall Place from a point 5 metres north-east of the south-western property boundary of No. 31 Randall Place for 6.6 metres in a north-easterly direction. n) Replace part of the Permit Holders or Limited Waiting Mon-Sat 8.30am-6.30pm Max stay 1 Hour No return within 2 hours Zone WA bay with a Disabled Badge Holders Only bay on Burrage Road, west side, from a point 0.8 metres north of the southern kerbline of Arthur Grove for 6.6 metres in a northerly direction. o) Replace the Permit Holders Only Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm (E) bay with No Waiting Mon-Fri 11am-12.30pm restrictions on Lilburne Road, north side, from a point 0.5 metres west of the common boundary of Nos. 6 and 8 Lilburne Road for 5.3 metres in an easterly direction. p) Update the map tiles attached to The Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and Stopping Restrictions) Order 2018 and The Greenwich (Charged-For Parking Places) Order 2018 so as to reflect the provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (a) to (o).

3. Copies of the Orders, which will come into operation on 18th December 2025, the statement of reasons for proposing to make the Order and plans showing the proposals, along with a copy of the Consolidation Orders can be inspected during normal office hours on Monday to Fridays inclusive at the Woolwich Centre Library, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London SE18 6HQ 4. Further information may be obtained from Parking Design Team, Floor 3, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London SE18 6HQ or email to parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference Minor Works Batch3 25-09).

5. If any person wishes to question the validity of the Order or of any of the provisions contained therein on the grounds that they are not within the powers conferred by the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, or that any requirement of that Act or of any instrument made under that Act has not been complied with, that person may, within six weeks from the date on which the Order was made, apply for that purpose to the High Court.

Director of Communities, Environment and Central Royal Borough of Greenwich Dated 17th December 2025

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Edition 989 HOW DO I APPLY? Get on the list

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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

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

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

Find your applicant number

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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.

ANYONE ON THE HOUSING LIST CAN APPLY

Pick out your ideal property

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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 •

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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 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.

royalgreenwich.gov.uk/homes

London & Quadrant Housing Trust

Ref Number: 286543 Lighthouse View SE10 3 Bed 8th Flr Flat 2 Dbl 1 Sgl room.

Lifted Entry phone No Pets/Pkg Storage Heaters £304.75 pw

Ref Number: 717420 Panfield Road SE2 1 Bed Grnd Flr Gdn Flat Entry phone Rad C/Htg £129.62 pw

Ref Number: 719080 Elderslie Road SE9 Bedsit Grnd Flr Flat Rad C/Htg No Pkg £136.17 pw

Ref Number: 721581 Southwood Road SE9 1 Bed Grnd Flr Flat Rad C/Htg £157.57 pw

ANYONE ON THE HOUSING LIST CAN APPLY

Ref Number: 728640 Prince Henry Road SE7 Bedsit Grnd Flr Flat Entry phone Rad C/Htg No Pkg £136.49 pw

Ref Number: 732900 Sidcup Road SE9 1 Bed 2nd Flr Flat Entry phone Combi Boiler & 1 Rad No Pkg £146.38 pw

Ref Number: 733220 St Domingo Hse Leda Road SE18 1 Bed 6th Flr Flat Lifted Entry phone Communal Gas Htg No Pkg £152.75 pw incl Htg £14.82 pw

Ref Number: 735220 Claymill House Raglan Road SE18 1 Bed 22nd Flr Flat Lifted Entry phone Storage Heaters No Pkg £138.89 pw incl Htg £14.82 pw

ANYONE ON THE HOUSING LIST CAN APPLY

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Ref Number: 740940 Edge Hill SE18 1 Bed 1st Flr Flat Lifted Entry phone Rad C/Htg No Pkg £129.17 pw

Ref Number: 741500 Woodhill SE18 4 Bed Hse Gdn 2 Dbl 2 Sgl rooms No Pets/Pkg. Rad C/Htg £190.30 pw

Royal Borough of Greenwich's Choice Based Lettings Scheme

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Choice based lettings hotline 020 8921 4340 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.

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

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.

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

MERIDIAN HOMES WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE PROPERTY JACKS ACRE LANE, ELTHAM, LONDON WHO WE ARE Meridian Home Start is a Community Benefit Society established in 2016 by the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Meridian’s purpose is to develop and manage better quality and genuinely affordable private rental housing for Greenwich residents who may not be prioritised for socially rented housing and who cannot afford to buy or rent in the private sector.

WHO CAN LIVE IN OUR HOMES? Wheelchair User Dwellings Requirements: Applicants need to have lived in the borough for the last 5 years but may also be eligible if not working and in receipt of benefits. Applicants must pass affordability and credit checks. In addition, they will need to demonstrate a need for an adapted property supported by an Occupational Therapist or be on the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Housing Occupational Therapy Accessible Offers list.

Priority allocation Priority will be given to those on lower incomes, key workers, those in overcrowded accommodation, those on the Council Housing register, people threatened with homelessness or living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation.

Priority for wheelchair accessible units will be given to those who are on the Housing OT accessible offers list.

RENT Wheelchair accessible dwellings are all let within the LHA cap. Rent levels are approximately: • • •

1 bed - £900 2 bed - £1100 3-bed - £1300

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Contact your matches and chat to the current tenant using the in-system messaging.

Once you’ve agreed a swap, ask your landlord for the paperwork.

FIND OUT MORE… If you would like to apply for the property at Jacks Acre Lane or find out more about this scheme or any other Meridian Home Start properties, please get in contact with us. Our managing agents, Pinnacle, will be happy to answer your queries and supply you with an application form.

Please email: MeridianHomeStart@pinnaclegroup.co.uk For wheelchair accessible properties email: DHIT-Housing-OT@ royalgreenwich.gov.uk

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Royal Borough of Greenwich's Choice Based Lettings Scheme

royalgreenwich.gov.uk/homes

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

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

The next printed edition of Greenwich Homes will be available on 7 January 2026 at midday.

Closing date for all applications for this issue is midnight on 21 December 2025.

MOVE TO A SMALLER PROPERTY 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 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.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HOMES ADVERTISED IN ISSUE 986 Address

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Rose Court Plumstead Common Road SE18 3AT

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370

03/03/2025

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Lilburne Road SE9 6PY

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PARLOUR HOUSE

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24/07/2019

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

Hartville Road SE18 1DQ

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FLAT

592

03/07/2024

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Samuel Street SE18 5LF

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348

13/03/2025

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Honeysuckle House Bonnett Road SE7 8GF

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475

To Be Allocated

Lord Warwick Street SE18 5QD

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FLAT

338

To Be Allocated

Packer Place Richardson Path SE28 0PF

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568

To Be Allocated

Bason House Richardson Path SE28 0PH

2

FLAT

576

To Be Allocated

Bason House Richardson Path SE28 0PH

3

FLAT

451

To Be Allocated

Baxter Place Packer Place SE28 0PF

2

FLAT

529

To Be Allocated

Baxter Place Packer Place SE28 0PF

1

FLAT

526

To Be Allocated

Cosmet House Bonnett Road SE7 8GD

1

FLAT

534

To Be Allocated

Cosmet House Bonnett Road SE7 8GD

2

FLAT

468

To Be Allocated

Cosmet House Bonnett Road SE7 8GD

3

FLAT

358

To Be Allocated

Cosmet House Bonnett Road SE7 8GD

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FLAT

498

To Be Allocated

Cosmet House Bonnett Road SE7 8GD

1

FLAT

554

To Be Allocated

Packer Place Richardson Path SE28 0PF

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462

To Be Allocated

Wooderson House Packer Place SE28 0PF

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24-hour hotline SEASIDE & COUNTRY SCHEME This scheme offers one and two bedroom flats and bungalows on the Coast and in the countryside, in the South East and West of England. In order to be considered you must be: •

A Council or Housing Association tenant

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At least 55 years old. If you intend to add a household member under the age of 55 they must be either your spouse, current joint tenant, registered carer or dependent adult child.

Your removal costs will be met if you are a Council tenant and you do move to a Seaside and Country home.

To register, or find out more about the scheme, contact the Access and Allocation section on: 020 8921 2941.

If you are a Housing Association tenant you need to contact your landlord to register.

Further information is available from the scheme management organisation at housingmoves.org

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 onebedroom 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-Downsizing@ 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.

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.

royalgreenwich.gov.uk/homes

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