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Festival.org: Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) Fragment of Us
Thursday 4 September, 4pm and 6:30pm
General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6FH
This world premiere by Black-led companies Talawa and Fubunation, directed by awardwinning artist Sonia Hughes, explores the many sides of Black masculinity through dance and poetry, capturing moments of joy, struggle, love and loss.
Festival.org: Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) Go Grandad, Go!
Thursday 4 September, 1:30pm and 3:30pm
General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6FH
This joyous celebration of inter-generational family relationships and Caribbean culture by company DHW, combines hip hop dance and storytelling. With relatable characters, infectious moves and fully integrated access, this is a feel-good show for all ages.
Festival.org: Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) The Weight of Water
Friday 5 and Saturday 6 September, 2:30pm and 6:30pm
Birchmere Lake, Epstein Road, Thamesmead, SE28 8DQ
This spectacular water-based event from Dutch company Panama Pictures sees six incredible performers struggle for survival on an unpredictable floating stage. The stakes are high in this modern parable of global warming, which merges dance, circus and live music on water to nail-biting effect.
Woolwich Works:
Brassworks Festival
Saturday 6 September, 12 noon to 7pm Woolwich Town Centre and Woolwich Works, Royal Arsenal SE18 3PU
A music festival in the sunny courtyard, including a community brass parade across Woolwich town centre.
The Bold Melon Collective: Give or Take performance and workshops
Sunday 7 September, 12 noon to 6pm PARKSfest, East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Chevening Road, Greenwich SE10 0LB
A family friendly live performance and collage workshops from local LGBTQIA artists.
TARU Arts: Woolwich Carnival
Saturday 13 September, 12 noon to 8pm, General Gordon Square, Beresford Square and Woolwich Arsenal, SE18
Carnival parade with music, dance, and food and community stalls.
Black Female Entrepreneur Greenwich (BFEG): Nigerian Cultural Festival
Saturday 13 September, 12 noon to 8pm Woolwich Carnival, General Gordon Square, Beresford Square and Woolwich Arsenal SE18
The African masquerade joins up with the Woolwich Carnival with masquerade mask workshops, fashion show, Afrobeat dance competition, cultural food tastings and pop-up market stalls.
Tramshed: ‘Whodunnit?’ Cabaret musical
Sunday 7 September, 12 noon to 6pm PARKSfest, East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Chevening Road, Greenwich SE10 0LB
Sunday 14 September, 12 noon to 6pm PARKSfest, Southwood Park, New Eltham SE9
Reach Theatre Company will stage their “Whodunnit?” cabaret musical, and a specially commissioned artist performance.
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Woolwich Carnival:
The annual celebration of music, dance, art and community fun where residents come together to celebrate the borough’s diversity. This year the Carnival is celebrating 10 years and featured Nigeria Cultural Festival as part of the Royal Greenwich Festivals. Highlights include a Benin Masquerade performance and parade, Africa mask workshops and Afrobeat DJ Music and dancing. There will also be an pop-up market and an art exhibition.
Date: Saturday 13 September
Time: 12:00 - 19:30
Location: The Courtyard at Woolwich Works, General Gordon Square, Woolwich, London, SE18 6FH
Tickets: Free to attend, no ticket required
Greenwich open studios:
Greenwich Open Studios 2025 will take place over two weekends in September and offers a unique opportunity or the public to meet local artists and see their work firsthand. Artists will be opening their studios away from the formal settings of commercial galleries. For those who want to purchase art, there are no dealers’ commissions, which means prices are more affordable. Attendees can pick up a map of the artists’ locations at
Astronomy Photographer of the year 17:
Visit ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year, and see the world’s greatest space photography at the National Maritime Museum.
Astronomy Photographer of the Year is an annual competition featuring the world’s greatest space photography. Photographers from across the globe compete to take home the prestigious title.
Over 100 photographs will be shown at the museum, starting on 12 September until summer 2026.
Date: Exhibition starts 12 September
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Location: National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF
Tickets: £12 adults, £6 children, £9 students
National
a starting point or simply use a Google List Map to plan and stay on the route. You can download the artists and studio map at www.greenwichopenstudios.co.uk/_files/ ugd/a1c39e_9496bb13f59e4631b6ceabfbd1818a41.pdf.
Date: 13 - 14 September and 20 - 21 September
Time: 11:30 - 16:30 both weekends
Location: Studios open 14:00 - 18:00
Time: Events from 13:00 - 19:00
Tickets: Free, no booking required
Murder Mystery Experience:
Take part in an immersive murder mystery in the astounding Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College. Assemble your team of detectives, explore our historic buildings at nighttime, and interrogate suspects to piece together the scattered clues before the time is up!
Date: Saturday 13 September
Time: Sessions at 19:00 and 20 :30
Location: Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NN
Tickets: £35 adults, £25 concessions. https://ornc.org/ whats-on/murder-mystery/
Eltham Palace
Autumn Plant Fair:
There will be a weekend of plants, talks and inspiration at Eltham’s Autumn Plant Fair with over 20 stands and plenty to explore. Take a seat in the beautiful Italian Drawing Room and enjoy free talks from 15 expert speakers, including authors, head gardeners, historians and horticulture professionals. Whether you’re a keen gardener or just enjoy the outdoors, there’s something for everyone.
Date: 13 Sept 2025 - 14 Sept 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Location: Eltham Palace and Gardens, Court Yard, Eltham, London, SE9 5NP
Tickets: £20 adults, £12.70 children
South London corner shop boss stars in his own Coca-Cola campaign
Catford businessman Kaual Patel, owner of Torridon Convenience Store, stars in a major Coca-Cola campaign revealing the untold stories of Britain’s corner shop bosses, writes Evie Flynn
Kaual is one of six business owners around the country to feature in a six part photography and mini docu-series that follows the stories of local corner shop bosses from across Great Britain.
This Coca-Cola campaign spotlights the invaluable role that corner shops and the people behind the counter play in their local communities.
Kaual’s parents bought the store, 189-191 Torridon Rd, in 1984 and grew a successful business before Kaual took over the running of things in 2000. Kaual’s mantra is: “If you’re a local producer, there’s
a space on my shelf for you”.
The short film shares how Kaual has turned his family’s convenience store into a cornerstone of the local community. He stocks products from small, independent local producers alongside big brands like Coca-Cola, and supports a range of community projects including a mural from local schoolchildren which now takes pride of place on the pavement outside his store.
Kaual is dedicated to making a difference in Catford, recently giving up his spare time to fix the local church roof.
He’s also a savvy entrepreneur who has created his own range of products, to give his customers an authentic taste of Catford that they can’t get anywhere else. Such items include the ‘Torridon Convenience Store IPA’ – made in collaboration with Brockley Brewery – and his own brand of Gin, flavoured with bay leaves from the trees outside his store.
The campaign is shot by awardwinning director Ross Bolidai and National Portrait Gallery photographer Serena Brown.
Kaual said: “Catford is home, and I’m proud to be in a position not just to provide my local community with their daily essentials, but to give something back too.”
As well as being the subject of his own micro-documentary, Kaual’s face will be on display on Out of Home advertisement spots across Catford to celebrate 125 years of CocaCola being sold in Great Britain.
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An immersive light and sound experience
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EVENTS
Last chance to catch Greenwich+Docklands Festival
The much-celebrated Greenwich+Docklands Festival 2025 will draw to a close this weekend on Saturday September 6, if you have not ready been there a few events still going on. All the weird, wild and wonderful were out in Woolwich town centre when I went to the opening, writes Michael Holland...
The festival is celebrating its 30th year and pulls together the boroughs of Greenwich, Newham and the Thamesmead Estate plus of course the artists from around the world that make it happen.
And what an opening it was! To embody this year’s theme of Above and Beyond, the French parkour artists Lézards Bleu hopped, skipped, jumped and defied death more than once as they did their thing on some of the more iconic buildings in SE18, like the Royal Arsenal Gatehouse, and the former Woolwich Equitable Building Society headquarters, plus other less distinguished structures but no less exciting as they clambered up, inched along, hung from, jumped off and gave us 45 minutes of oohs and aahs and sharp intakes of breath as we followed their journey that culminated in the eight men standing atop a Grade II listed building to
declare this festival well and truly open. All this was performed to dramatic new music by Roma Yagnik that enhanced the choreographed acrobatics the crowd looked up to - truly above and beyond.
From there we adjourned to the Tramshed where speeches were made, and glasses raised in toast for a magnificent 30 years of arts and culture on our streets - And every single event free.
Thirty companies from around the world have been performing new work under the Above and Beyond theme this year: Poetry and movement celebrated Black masculinity in the world premiere of Fragments of Us in a collaboration between the UK’s leading Black theatre company Talawa and acclaimed Black British dance company Fubunation, directed by award-winning artist Sonia Hughes.
The much-loved Greenwich Fair returned to its historic nineteenth century home in Greenwich Park last month. The following weekend on Greenwich Peninsular, engineering and performance collided in Turning Worlds as four spectacular shows fused the worlds of circus, physics and robotics.
Bradley Hemmings MBE, GDIF’s Artistic Director, says: ‘We’ve learned that there are no edges or boundaries in outdoor theatre and the usual distinctions between art and the everyday are often miraculously blurred. This year our “stage” stretched out in all directionsacross parks, town centres, basketball
courts, roofs and a water space, whilst we also invited audiences to look up, both physically and imaginatively.’
Still time to see:
Over in Newham this Saturday (September 6) this year’s alfresco dance take-over ‘Dancing City 2025’ will showcase a host of amazing outdoor spaces across Stratford – popping up in the Town Centre, East Bank and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Saturday September 6. Expect stunning staging and a huge variety of dance styles.
In Thamesmead a water-based spectacle
water. You will see six incredible performers struggle for survival on an unpredictable floating stage to nail biting effect.
Writer, and Greenwich resident, Fiona Hughes has written Above and Beyond: 30 Years of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival to celebrate the three decades of the festival.
Until 6th September. Full details of all events: https://festival.org/gdif-2025/
The Weight of Water from Dutch company Panama Pictures is also happening this Saturday (September 6). It a powerful response to the climate crisis that merges dance, circus and live music on
French parkour artists ©Nathalie Sternalski
Weightless by Lina Johansson
EVENTS
Greenwich Comedy Festival is back this September
The Greenwich Comedy Festival is back at The Royal Naval college from 17-21 September, promising a star-studded programme, with headliners Ed Gamble from Off Menu podcast and Taskmaster stars Lucy Beaumont and Sam Campbell, writes Evie Flynn
The festival has been presenting its series of sell-out comedy shows in Greenwich and beyond since 2009.
Across five nights and weekend afternoons, some of the finest current comedians will be heading to the peninsula. The event will host stand-up performances and a selection of bars and street-food providers in the heart of Royal Greenwich.
The festival was created by Greenwich-raised siblings Will Briggs and Cass Randolph, who are always looking forward to the return.
Will says: “Greenwich is where I grew up and where I first saw stand-up, so it’s always magical to bring the festival there. This year’s line-up is chock full of so many incredible acts, we can’t wait to get going.”
Cass adds: “We have legendary acts that have reached the top of their game and keep surpassing it alongside trail-blazing names that are the headliners of the future. Each show offers sets that are slick, surprising, silly, sublime and everything else in between.
Combine all this with great food and drink in one of London’s prime locations, it’s going to be a treat!”
The line up:
Wednesday 17 September at 7:30pm: Ed Gamble, Tom Davis, Lara Ricote, Rosie Jones and Chloe Petts.
Thursday 18 September at 7:30pm: Nish Kumar, Tim Key, Rhys James, Ivo Graham and Kiri Pritchard-Mclean.
Friday 19 September at 7:30pm: Fern Brady, Sarah Keyworth, Michael Odewale, Bridget Christi and Jen Brister.
Saturday 20 September at 1pm: Sara Pascoe, Nina Conti, Jin Hao Li, Kerry Godliman, Laura Smyth.
Saturday 20 September at 4:15pm: Phil Wang, Lucy Beaumont, Sindhu Vee, Thor Stenhaug, and Amy Gledhill.
Saturday 20 September at 7:45pm: Sam Campbell, Lou Sanders, Celya AB, Josh Pugh, and Catherine Bohart.
Sunday 21 September at 7:30pm: Frankie Boyle, Jamali Maddix, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Fin Taylor, and Esther Manito.
Date: 17th - 21st September 2025
Location: Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NN. Tickets: £29.50 each Website: www.greenwichcomedyfestival.co.uk
Nearly 500 co-living apartments approved in Abbey Wood
With shared dinning rooms and kitchens the developers have called it a ‘high-quality solution for urban renters”, writes Cameron Blackshaw, Local Democracy Reporter...
Plans to build nearly 500 flats aimed at young professionals, a hotel and a new pet hospital in Abbey Wood have been approved.
The site lies on the border of Greenwich and Bexley and is located just north of Abbey Wood station. It is on the corner of Eynsham Drive and the A2041 and
is currently home to a car wash and Thamesmead PDSA Pet Hospital.
Abbey Wood Property Limited submitted the scheme in early 2024 and it consists of four buildings that range from a 17-storey tower block to a three-storey building. As part of the proposal both the car wash and
the pet hospital will be demolished, but a larger, more modern facility for the pet hospital is being provided.
A PDSA spokesperson said: “We have been involved in discussions regarding the development around our Thamesmead PDSA Pet Hospital. Now plans have been approved, we are
working through implications and options for our site and our team whilst the extensive building works are underway.
“We remain committed to providing PDSA services to the communities we serve, and the Thamesmead PDSA Pet Hospital will continue to open as normal while we confirm the longer-term plan.”
Instead of providing self-contained flats, the scheme will deliver 487 co-living rooms. The co-living rooms consist of a bedroom with an ensuite bathroom, a small kitchenette and integrated storage space. The rooms will measure from 18 to 24 square metres.
Co-living, which developers have called a “high-quality solution for urban renters” is meant to encourage social interaction amongst residents through communal areas like large dining areas and kitchens, gyms, co-working spaces, and gardens.
These co-living units will be offered at flexible lease lengths from three to 12 months and will have allinclusive contracts that covers bills and a gym membership. According to planning documents, these types of units are aimed at young professionals as an alternative to HMOs and smaller apartments.
Alongside the co-living residential units, the new scheme will deliver a 110-room hotel which is likely to be a Holiday Inn Express. This application was made on the back of another proposal at the site that was approved in 2018. This proposal, which was similar in visual terms to the final outcome, would have delivered 272 flats instead of the 487 co-living rooms.
Back to the boundary walk...
to find out more about the remaining boundary stones. Some have gone missing, even since 1980, in the last two or three years. I’ve been trying to encourage people to think about them and wonder if there’s some way we can get them preserved. We need a bit more publicity about them so people know to that they exist and how old they are.
Well, I thought it was about time I got back to the walk going round the Greenwich Parish boundary. It’s been six weeks since the last episode. Perhaps they stopped for lunch - but six weeks would be a very, very long lunch break even for the parish officials.
This has been an account of a walk around the Greenwich Parish boundaries in 1851 following a contemporary using a newspaper report of it. These walks used to take place annually and they were more like a Procession than a walk. They had started at Garden Stairs down near Greenwich Pier and consisted of the Parish clergy and the churchwardens. This was in the days when the Parish acted as the local authority so there would be lots of officials - people who today would work for Greenwich Council. They would be accompanied by lots of school children and the church choir and various others and the procession round the Parish boundary could take them all day. I’ve been writing it up in short stretches and I this, I think, is episode No.8. I’ve been following them from the newspaper report and also have a report of a replica walk which took place in 1980 and that was described with some notes from Julian Watson, who used to be the Greenwich Local History librarian, in the Greenwich Local History Society’s Journal, 2020.
I’m looking at where I they stopped last time after going round the Paragon in Blackheath. I ended up outside the Lodge at the bottom of the drive of Morden College where there is a boundary stone. One of the other things I’ve been doing in the past six weeks is trying
So, this section starts outside the lodge of Morden College and the boundary stone which is up against the wall at the end of Morden Road. Morden College is in the south east corner of Blackheath and dates from the late 17th century when Sir John Morden set up what was essentially an alms house - an old people’s home. This was for distressed ‘Turkey merchants’men who had put their money into trade and the ship that they had relied used had been lost at sea along with their investment. They had lost all their money and were now old and needed support. Morden College has just carried on ever since and recently it’s expanded a lot and they now have more accommodation including nursing homes. At one time I used to get asked to their garden parties and they didn’t have anyone as common as the Mayor of Greenwich to greet guests - no, we had the Lord Mayor of London him/herself and the Royal Artillery Band playing excerpts from Gilbert and Sullivan.
The newspaper report of the 1851 Parish walk says that the boundary line goes from the stone at the Morden College Lodge to another stone ‘under the elms’ on the college premises. I think that means going straight ahead up to St. German’s Place - but after nearly 200 years am I likely to find those elms? Indeed Morden College premises are extensive and have clearly changed too. On the Ordinance Survey map for the 1860s there are a lot of dashed lines for boundaries - but none of the familiar ‘BS’ signs which are marked across Blackheath and show where there are, or were, boundary stones. So where next?
I am looking at Michael Egan’s excellent little book written in 1983 on Kidbrook which has a short chapter on boundaries – except, of course, he wrote about the Kidbrook boundary rather than the Greenwich. He included a helpful map. It’s quite clear that this is another area where many boundaries meet as shown on his map and on the Ordnance Survey. Michael Egan says that the next stone ‘is on the path towards the College in tombstone shape at about the point where the Upper Kid Brook crossed the path’. The Upper Kidbrooke was a stream and of course old boundaries often follow streams or set them as markers.
Mary Mills
Morden College
So the route goes from Morden College Lodge north on the footpath which goes alongside Morden College gardens towards St German’s Place. I don’t know about any elm trees here but the first big tree you come to is a flowering chestnut. (There is a picture of it on Google Street View showing it in flower). If you peer through the railings of Morden College gardens there is a boundary stone just a couple of yards inside which I think must be the one he means. After this I’m afraid the Kidbrook boundary goes off in a different direction to the Greenwich one which it continues to go O north up along St Germans Place.
The newspaper report of the 1851 walk says there is another stone, also within the railing, but in ‘the corner adjacent to the foot entrance gate’. This is a very difficult area to look at with lots of undergrowth and bits of broken curb stone at what appears to be a disused entrance to Morden College and there seems little chance of finding anything. It’s a pleasant enough footpath and probably not much used.
It might be worth noting here that on one of the oldest maps we have of the area, the 1697 Travers plan of Greenwich, that the Greenwich boundary then did an enormous loop east here in into what is now Morden College property. On the map it says it is ’The Brick Bridge going to Sir J Morden’s new hospital’.
Perhaps I should also briefly pick up on the road name of ‘St Germans’. Michael Egan’s book on Kidbrook has a couple of pages on the landowning Eliot family
and how they became the Earls of St Germans in 1815. The 1697 Traver’s plan marks ‘Eliot’s’ somewhere near the corner where the Morden College Lodge is today. Their local land holdings were sold but the present Earl of St.Germans is still the Lord of the Manor here – he is aged only 20 so we can only wait and see if he ever takes an interest in Kidbrook.
The route carries on up St Germain’s Place and as the Greenwich Historical Society Journal says ‘goes past Christ’s College’ and reminds us that this private boys school was founded in 1823. It continues to the corner of the slip road from Shooters Hill Road. I am very confused about the name of this slip road which is parallel to the main A2road. On historic maps it is called ‘St Germans Terrace ‘but there is currently no road name sign I can see nor is there a name given on any of the usual maps. Very confusing. The Greenwich Historical Society say that it’s ‘on the boundary line’ and that it is ‘the old Canterbury Way’ - meaning it is the line of old Dover Road before the current A2 was installed.
The newspaper report tells us that the procession went ‘to a stone just round the corner from Shooters Hill’. That stone is there, almost right on the corner, with ‘GP’ for ‘Greenwich Parish’ carved on it. At this point the boundary turns east and continues up the no-name slip. The 2020 account says ‘we pass the tea caddy houses’ and reach another stone outside ‘no 20 Shooters Hill Road’ – or, as the newspaper report says ‘a stone at the end of the terrace’. There is a stone at
the base of the wall between nos.20 and 22 – and I suppose at one time this was indeed the end of the terrace . But it is not quite at the end of the slip road - it’s a small stone and very much p against the wall. It would be very easy to miss.
The procession continued going east. By now they must have been very weary and you can see their feet dragging as they get the Shooter’s Hill Road. To cheer everybody up on the other side of the road is The Sun in the Sands Pub - or rather what used to be the Sun in the Sands pub. The report in the 2020 journal says that the Parish procession used to stop here for lunch. I have no idea what the lunches were like in the 19th century - although I very much appreciate that the 1980s walk stopped further back at the Princess of Wales where and at least you can sit outside in the sunshine and look at the ducks on the pond while all you could see at the Sun in the Sands is more traffic. No lunch would be available today since I think the pub is closed and has planning permission to be converted into flats. And I’m sorry if it is closed because it’s an old pub on the main road and that’s interesting
Hungry or not the procession will have continued on up Shooters Hill roads until they get to No. 122 where tucked in against the garden wall is yet another boundary stone. This is the point at which procession crossed the Dover Road and began to go north.
In fact they crossing the road over to Trout’s Common ......................where??
Boundary Stone corner the St.German’s Place and Prince Charles Rd
Boundary Stone Morden Road, corner of drive Morden College and Morden College Lodge
Sun in the Sands
(a) Append the
(b) Append a new Schedule 5K after Schedule 5J of the Charged-For Order introducing a new All Zones Permit as shown in Schedule 2 to this
and
will be issued to members of the Council and anyone authorised by the Council to allow them to park in any CPZ.
(c) Introduce a charge for Carer Permits to Schedule 5C of the Charged-For Order as shown in Schedule 3 to this Notice and amend Articles setting out the provisions of these charges.
(d) Add a Diesel Surcharge and Multi Vehicle Charge for Business Permits to Schedule 5B of the Charged-For Order as shown in Schedule 4 to this Notice.
(e) Introduce Business Visitor Vouchers for Eltham North (EN) to Schedule 5H of the Charged-For Order as shown in Schedule 5 to this Notice.
3. Copies of the proposed Order, 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 Traffic Team, Floor 3, The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, London SE18 6HQ or email to parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 09-25 Fees&Charges Amd).
5. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Order, should send a statement in writing by 24th September 2025, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made by email to parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference 09-25 Fees&Charges Amd).
6. Persons objecting to the proposed Order should be aware that in view of current access to information legislation, this Council would be legally obliged to make any comments received in response to this notice, open to public inspection and all data will be handled according to GDPR regulations.
Assistant Director, Transport Communities, Environment and Central Royal Borough of Greenwich
Dated 3rd September 2025
SCHEDULE 1 - Introduce charges for administration, suspensions and dispensations into Schedule 6 of the Charged-For Order
The charge of the type specified in column (2) of the following table shall be the amount specified in relation thereto in column (3) of that table.
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8
9
All Zones Permit Charges
SCHEDULE 2 - Append a new Schedule 5K after Schedule 5J of the Charged-For Order introducing a new All Zones Permit
(a) The charge referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 33A for an All Zone Permit valid for a period of 12 months, 6 months or 3 months shall be, subject to the provisions of Article 41 and any other relevant provisions of this Order, the amount
depending on the number of Vehicles as specified in Column (1).
SCHEDULE 3 – Carer Permits
The charge referred to in paragraph (4) of Article 26 for a Carer permit valid for a period of 12 months shall be, subject to the provisions of this Order, £15.00.
SCHEDULE 4 – Business Permits including the new charges for Diesel Surcharge and Multi Vehicle Charge Business permit charges
(a) The charge referred to in paragraph (3) of Article 25 for a business permit valid for a period of 12 months, 6 months or 3 months shall be, subject to the provisions of Article 41 and any other relevant provisions of this Order, the amount
depending on the Vehicle emissions (gCo2/km) specified in column (3), in relation to the controlled parking zone specified in column (1) in respect of which the business permit is issued.
(6) or
Controlled Parking Zone (1)
Business Visitors' Voucher Charge (2) Eltham North (EN), Charlton (C), Blackheath Standard (BS), Charlton Station (CS), Caletock Estate (CT),
Royal Borough of Greenwich
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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.
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Date: 03/09/2025
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Applicant: Mr Martins 25/0289/F
Site Address: 39 HERVEY ROAD, KIDBROOKE, LONDON, SE3 8BS
Development: Demolition of existing rear garage Conversion of existing house into two self contained flats and to incorporate single storey rear extension and rear loft conversion. Construction of rear out building to serve as amenity for the residents of the flats. Provision of front parking space for two cars, refuse storage and cycle storage spaces.
Conservation Area: SUN IN THE SANDS
Applicant: Southwark Diocese (Rev Simon Winn) 25/1527/F
Site Address: ST ALFEGES PARK, ST ALFEGE PASSAGE, GREENWICH, SE10 9RB
Development: Partial demolition of Grade II listed wall and gate accessed between No.62 and 64 Roan Street to widen and create vehicle and pedestrian access including ramp, and repair and repointing to the wall.
Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH
Applicant: Waltham Estates Ltd 25/2352/HD
Site Address: 28 GLENLUCE ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7SB
Development: Installation of AC units to the side of the property.
Conservation Area: WESTCOMBE PARK
Applicant: Judith Ashton 25/2580/F
Site Address: 96 SHOOTERS HILL ROAD, LONDON, SE3 8RL
Development: Change of use from a small House in Multiple Occupation (Use Class C4) to a Holiday Let (Use Class Sui Generis).
Conservation Area: SUN IN THE SANDS
Applicant: London & Quadrant 25/2642/F
Site Address: 58 & 58A ENNIS ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 2QT
Development: Replacement of timber framed windows for double glazed uPVC framed units, in addition to the replacement of existing timber doors with new composite front entrance doors and uPVC rear exit doors and all other works
Conservation Area:
Applicant: G L Hotel Ltd
25/2650/F
Site Address: KING WILLIAM IV HOTEL, 155-159 TRAFALGAR ROAD, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9TX
Development: Construction of a mansard roof extension to existing hotel to accommodate additional hotel
rooms; other associated alterations.
Conservation Area: EAST GREENWICH
Applicant: Mrs Anna Stafford 25/2659/HD
Site Address: 11 MORDEN ROAD MEWS, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 0AE
Development: Construction of a single storey detached garden room in the rear garden.
Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK
Applicant: Knight Dragon Developments Ltd and Club Pickle Ltd 25/2680/F
Site Address: Land to the east of Greenwich Peninsula Golf Driving Range, Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, SE10
Development: Erection of temporary buildings for up to 10 years for use as pickleball courts, clubhouse and associated works
Conservation Area:
Applicant: Mr Mads Frank 25/2686/HD
Site Address: 65 ASHBURNHAM PLACE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8UG
Development: Replacement of 11no sash windows installed into the existing box frames and 1no complete new casement window.
Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE
Publicity for Listed Building Consent
Applicant: Southwark Diocese (Rev Simon Winn) 25/1528/L
Site Address: ST ALFEGES PARK, ST ALFEGE PASSAGE, GREENWICH, SE10 9RB
Development: Partial demolition of Grade II listed wall and gate accessed between No.62 and 64 Roan Street to widen and create vehicle and pedestrian access including ramp, and repair and repointing to the wall.
Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH
Listed Building: Grade 2
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) ZANGWILL ROAD PLANNED DIRECTIONAL ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Openreach who need to lay new duct work.
2. The Order will come into operation on 15/09/25 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 4 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Zangwill Road at the junction of Shooters Hill Road, and to close the cycle lane in Shooters Hill Road at the junction of Zangwill Road.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via the placing of the appropriate signage. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected, and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.
5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.
6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.
7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport. The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 16/07/25
INTERNAL REF: LA489662
ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) TRAFALGAR ROAD
PLANNED CYCLE LANE CLOSURE (ORDER)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Blade Traffic Management who need to carry out the Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) survey.
2. The Order will come into operation on 15th September 2025 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 cyclists from entering, exiting, proceeding, or waiting (including stopping), on the cycle lane in Trafalgar Road outside 213.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will not need to be diverted. Prohibitions remain in force; pedestrians are not affected.
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 Communities, Environment and Central on 020 8921 6340.
Ryan Nibbs Assistant Director, Transport. The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated: 13/08/2025
INTERNAL REF - EM/ LA490787 FN816 /LIC No 74457
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Notice of Planning Application
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: Morden Wharf, Located off Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, London, SE10 0PA
Reference Number: 25/1985/MA
Notice is hereby given that an application is being made to the Royal Borough of Greenwich By: GHL CDL Morden Limited
For Full Planning Permission in respect of:
Planning application under Section 73 for alterations to Conditions 2 (Approved Drawings), Condition 5 (BREEAM- Jetty building), Condition 21 (Final Drainage), 42 (Reserved Matters Scope), 43 (Approved Drawings and Parameter Plans), 45 (Quantum of development), 46 (Development Phasing), 74 (Detailed Drainage Scheme - Outline), 75a (Secure by design), 91 (BREEAM New Construction Standards –Outline), 97 (Biodiverse / Biosolar Green Roofs / Walls – Outline), 98 (Occupation Limit for Buildings SW4 and B02 – Outline) and 102 (Residential Car Parking – Outline) attached to planning permission Ref No 20/1730/O granted on 22 June 2022 for the following development:
"Hybrid planning application comprising outline planning permission with all matters reserved (43,475 sqm site area) and full planning permission (12,992 sqm site area). Outline permission is for the demolition of existing on-site buildings and structures (except the Southern Warehouse) and phased mixed-use redevelopment comprising: up to 1,500 residential dwellings; up to 17,311 (sqm GIA) of commercial floorspace (Class A1/A2/A3/A4/B1/B1c/B2/B8/D1/D2); and associated car and cycle parking, public realm and open space, hard and soft landscaping, highway and transport works, and associated ancillary works. Full planning permission is for the change of use of part of the Southern Warehouse from Class B1c/B2/B8to B1c/B2/B8/A3/A4; refurbishment (including mezzanines) and external alterations to part of the Southern Warehouse; change of use of the Jetty to public realm and installation on the Jetty of Gloriana Boathouse (use class D1/D2); access; landscaping and public realm works including new river wall and upgraded Thames Path."
A copy of the application and any plans and/or documents submitted with it is available for inspection by the public at https://planning. royalgreenwich.gov.uk/online-applications/ and by searching via the application reference 25/1985/MA. 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 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: i) https://planning.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/online-applications/ and by searching via the application reference 25/1985/MA or ii) Hardcopies of the Environmental Statement Addendum can be requested from Aecom by contacting environmentadmins@aecom.com . Printing costs for the ES would be subject to professional printing charges.
Date: 3 September 2025
Victoria Geoghegan - Assistant DirectorPlanning and Building Control
Operator Licence application words for Grays Bros Ltd
Grays Bros Ltd of 21 East Street, Bromley, BR1 1QE are applying for an Operator Licence to use 124 Nathan Way, Thamesmead, London, SE28 0AU as an operating centre for 4 goods vehicles and 0 trailers.
Owners or occupiers of land (including buildings) near the operating centre(s) who believe that their use or enjoyment of that land would be affected, should make written representations to the Traffic Commissioner at Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7UE, stating their reasons, within 21 days of this notice. Representors must at the same time send a copy of their representations to the applicant at the address given at the top of this notice. A Guide to Making Representations is available from the Traffic Commissioner's office.
Greenwich (EG) and Westcombe (W)
GREAT IN GREENWICH: GREAT RESULTS ACROSS GCSES
AND A-LEVELS
AT LOCAL SCHOOLS
Young people across Royal Greenwich are celebrating strong GCSE and A-level results this summer.
At A-level, even more students achieved high grades overall, with increases in the number of A to B and A* to C grades. While final results are still being confirmed, at this stage the overall pass rate looks to have improved in in Royal Greenwich.
At GCSE level, nearly two-thirds of pupils secured a pass in both maths and English, with almost half achieved a strong pass (Grade 5 or above).
The results coming in so far highlight how well young people across Royal Greenwich have bounced back after the pandemic.
Local secondary schools are going above and beyond to support students to achieve their goals.
Cllr Adel Khaireh, Cabinet Member for Children and Young People said: “Royal Greenwich is lucky to have lots of brilliant local secondary schools, filled with hard working teachers and wide, engaging curriculums. These results show that our young people truly can be Great in Greenwich.
“The hard work of students, with the support of their teachers and families, means more young people than ever are leaving school and sixth form ready for the future, whether they’re going on to further education, apprenticeships or heading straight into work. We are so proud of what they’ve achieved.”
The council continues to work closely with schools to raise aspirations and support young people in achieving their goals right here in the borough.
NEED HELP ON NEXT STEPS AFTER A-LEVELS?
Call the National Careers Service on 0800 100 900 (open 8am to 10pm)
Contact your university or college directly, or speak to UCAS on 0371 468 0 468
If you haven’t received an offer yet, you can still apply through Clearing until 20 October 2025
You can also access Kooth, a free, safe, and anonymous online mental health and wellbeing service available to all young people in the borough aged 10 to 25: kooth.com
INTERESTED IN APPRENTICESHIPS?
We offer apprenticeships across several sectors, including business administration, customer service, digital, finance, and more:
Learn more about apprenticeships: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/greenwichapprenticeships
NEED HELP GETTING INTO WORK?
Greenwich Local Labour and Business (GLLaB) is the council’s free Employment Support Service for residents.
We can help you:
• find and apply for an apprenticeship
• create or update your CV
• prepare for an interview
Contact GLLaB: royalgreenwich.gov. uk/gllab
Your deadline to apply for Secondary School in Royal Greenwich
If your child is due to start secondary school in September 2026, you’ll need to apply for a place through Royal Greenwich if you live in the borough, even if you’re applying for schools in other council areas.
Applications are open now and close on 31 October 2025
Apply for secondary schools on 1 September: royalgreenwich.gov.uk/ apply-secondary-school
