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Back by popular demand, Comedy Club 4 Kids returns to Greenwich Theatre this festive season, bringing with it some of the best-loved names on the international circuit. Don’t worry, though, all the ‘rude bits’ have been cut to make this show a strictly family-friendly affair, fit to give little ones their first taste of comedy. Suitable for ages 6+. Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, Greenwich, London SE10 8ES. December 23, 10:30am - 11:30am. Admission: £12.50. www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/events/comedy-club-4-kids/
Last calls to see Santa He’s left his Greenwich Market grotto for another year, but Santa’s sleigh has pulled up outside the Old Royal Naval College. His visit coincides with the arrival of a giant installation of the Moon in the Painted Hall. He and the Moon go way back, we hear, and he’s keen to tell little visitors all about his giant, silver friend. Book in a visit to
Looking for something to entertain the kids in the final days before Christmas? Woodlands Farm is hosting a Stick Man Christmas. Little visitors are invited to watch the Stick Man movie on a projector screen in the Education Centre, then venture around the farm completing a Stick Man activity trail. Find them all and you can claim a special Stick Man-related gift. Chop chop! Woodlands Farm, 331 Shooters Hill, Welling DA16 3RP. December 21, 10am - 11:30am & 1pm - 2:30pm. Admission: £7. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-stick-manchristmas-tickets-468286817477
5QE. December 2 - 30 (on select dates), 4pm - 7pm. Admission: £7 - £19. www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/eltham-palace-enchanted/
at 10:30am & 12:15pm. Admission: £14/£11.50 children.
December 10 - 23,
www.churchilltheatre.co.uk/Online/tickets-little-red-riding-hood-bromley-2022
listen to a moon-themed story and get a photo with mister Christmas himself. We hear he’s got presents for good children, too! Old Royal Naval College, King William Walk, London SE10 9NN. December 17 - 23, 20-minute sessions from 11:35am - 3:20pm. Admission: £5. www.ornc.org/whats-on/santas-over-the-moon/
Weaving along a two-mile route from
(near Green Park Station) to
Square – tipping a hat to Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street, St James, Pall Mall, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall along the way – the New Year’s Day Parade is a free, high-spirited event, ideal for shrugging off last night’s hangover and greeting the new year head on. Lending it a poptastic edge this year are performances from Top Loader (remember ‘Dancing in the Moonlight’?) and Scouting for Girls (‘She’s So Lovely’). Join thousands of others on the streets of the West End to say a warm hello to 2023. www.lnydp.com
Roll up, roll up, touring circus company The Revel Puck Circus has set up shop (well, big top tent) in Beckenham Place Park, where they’re offering punters the chance to see their alternative festive experience: The Wing Scuffle Spectacular, writes Holly O’Mahony
“We’re landing in Beckenham Place Park in our 500-seater big top –which is heated,” laughs company founder and artistic director Luke Hallgarten. He’s a juggler in the show, and also its writer and director.
Acrobats, a teeterboard trio, tightrope moonwalkers and clowns have all been promised as part of the show, but don’t expect any Christmas hats or sing-alongs. “We want to be inclusive of everyone, including people of all faiths,” explains Luke of his show, which is described on the company website as ‘call to arms to care for each other’. “For example, Hanukkah falls at the same time as Christmas this year. We’d never want to alienate anyone. We’re thinking about what this kind of experience offers to all people – coming together, embodying community, and valuing those that you love,” he adds.
Yep, this is not your typical commercial circus, rather one that operates as a collective and has built its foundation on morals. “We wanted to make circus that celebrated the human condition without sacrificing the universality and democratic nature of the experience,” Luke tells me. He founded the east London-based company with a group of circus-trained friends back in 2018.
“Creating work for a Big Top, outside of traditional performance spaces, is at the heart of what we do. Our first impulse is making stuff. We borrowed an old tent and a truck, and got our first big break in the form of a grant from Waltham Forest, when it was the London Borough of Culture, to make a show and bring it there for the community.”
Most of the performers – the
‘Pucks’ – in the company, who are aged between their early 20s to mid 30s, came up through the London Youth Circus. “The academic side of things never really hit home for many of us. It’s really thanks to proper outreach programmes that we’re able to do what we do,” says Luke, who went on to study at the National Centre for Circus Arts in London and then at a circus school in France, before getting his first professional gig working for Welsh company NoFit State Circus. “I toured with them for a number of years. That’s where I really learned about the nature of tented touring,” he says.
As the name suggests – ‘revel’ meaning to enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, and ‘Puck’ being the English fairy famous for mischievous pranks and practical jokes – the company’s morals don’t override their aim to create fun, exciting work.
“It’s homegrown, there’s really something for everyone in it, not just something to make kids scream. It embodies the spirit of community and bringing people together. It’s nonverbal, it’s high tricks,” Luke reflects.
Is there a show-stopper stunt? “It’s the ending that seems to touch people the most, but I can’t tell you what that is; you’ll have to come and see the show!”
What he will tell me is that the show is staged in-the-round, with a cast of nine performing their daredevil stunts and a further 11 company members behind the scenes ensuring everything runs smoothly and the audience has the best possible experience with it.
“It’s very much an ensemble show. Everyone gets their moment to
highlight their specific skill, but the big thing for us is it’s a big group of people working together to make something extraordinary happen,” says Luke, circling back to the whole community drive
behind Rebel Puck Circus’s work.
Despite the company’s community outlook, the physical nature of any circus can still be a dangerous business for its performers. “We
minimise accidents as much as we can, but we can’t pretend it’s not a risky thing that we do,” says Luke, evenly. “Part of that is making sure we hire professional artists who are at the peak of their profession and understand the risks, and also ensuring there’s enough training time in the day: [circus performers] are athletes so require athletes’ training.”
There’s an unlikely secret ingredient in the mix helping them along, apparently: “On-site catering and making sure people have the nutrition they need, because it’s quite specific,” Luke reveals.
While the catering is for the performers, audience members are being looked after too. An onsite bar is selling the usuals, including candyfloss, popcorn and festive drinks, and there’s jerk chicken and a vegan equivalent for those who arrive craving something more substantial.
Ultimately. “the show is a celebration of fear and the idea that for us to learn and progress, we have to work through our fears,” says Luke. “We hope it’s a message people identify with, but we also want audiences to take away a sense of joy, resonance and hope.”
The Wing Scuffle Spectacular is showing at Beckenham Place Park, Beckenham Hill Road, BR3 1SY. December 15 - January 8, performance times vary but last two hours including a 20-minute interval. Admission: £17/£13 concessions. www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/ the-wing-scuffle-spectacular/
Hopefully you get to put your feet up somewhere after being on duty! How will you be spending the rest of the day?
Take us through your Christmas Day…
Christmas really ‘begins’ in the weeks before when we are busy with special carol services and community events.
On Christmas Eve a team of us prepare for our services, including the 5pm Christingle service and the 11.30pm Midnight Mass, which is preceded by our choir singing carols from 10.45pm.
On Christmas morning we have a Holy Communion service at 11am with wellknown carols. At each service we take a collection for a specific charity working in our community or further afield. Nothing happens without our large team of volunteers who enable the ministry and worship of St Alfege Church.
I’ve been ordained 24 years, so our family is used to me being ‘on duty’ at this time of year. I’ll get home and have a quick snooze before helping with our Christmas Day meal – shared with friends from around the world who are currently based in London. We might open some presents later on and enjoy a glass or two of our favourite New Zealand wine.
What’s special about doing your job at this time of year?
You never know who you will cross paths with at Christmas time, including on our Greenwich Advent Windows trail. There are all sorts of opportunities to support and bless other people at this time of year,
whether that’s taking communion to the housebound, praying with and helping someone in great need, supporting families from St Alfege School or leading a seasonal service in one of our local almshouses. As a newbie to Greenwich, I’m grateful that we are celebrating the first ‘non socially-distanced’ Christmas in my time here.
What do you love about Greenwich at this time of year?
Stretching my legs beside the river, around town or in the park on clear, cold wintery days and enjoying a pint with friends in a local pub. It’s a very different Christmas to our years in Wellington, New Zealand, where Christmas signalled the start of the summer holidays and people headed off to the beach.
While you’re unwrapping presents, sitting cosy by the fire, or wrapping up warm for a wintry walk before tucking into your roast of choice, spare a thought for the locals making Christmas happen for the rest of us. Here’s how they’ll be spending their day, as told to Holly O’Mahony… SueJenkins Rev Simon Winn Santa at the Old Royal Naval College
This is the busiest day of the year for us. We have a team of volunteers that go to local supermarkets and work with us to collect all the unsold food which would go to waste. We work throughout the night turning the fresh food into a delicious Christmas dinner. We also have a team of volunteers making the collection area welcoming by putting up decorations and wrapping up gifts. We also get a donation of books from Acorn Book Club which the children are delighted with.
What does the run up to Christmas look like for you?
Around 1.9 million tonnes of food is wasted by the UK food industry each year. At Catford Soup Kitchen, we want to make sure that we use food that would normally go to waste and use that food to make good, tasty, nutritious meals. To do this we work with local supermarkets such as Waitrose, The Co-op, Tesco, and The Felix Project. In Lewisham, we have people who are suffering from the cost of living crisis including those who are working. We make sure there are hot, tasty meals, and signpost them to places where they can get additional support and stay warm.
What will you be doing to relax afterwards? Hopefully you get to put your feet up somewhere!
I have not spent a Christmas at home for about five years, which is a similar story for all the family volunteers who work on Christmas Day. This is the first time we will be home for Christmas as our Christmas lunch is taking place on Christmas eve. I usually relax by putting my feet up and spending time with my family and our dog, Milo, then enjoying a late lunch on Boxing Day.
Why do you choose to volunteer at Christmas?
I am the manager of the soup kitchen, but on Saturdays I am a volunteer and it is my pleasure. I have seen how families and people have suffered due to the cost of living crisis, and it is important to me to do as much as I can to help.
What’s your favourite thing about Catford at Christmas?
One of the things I love to do is go to Le Delice café in Hither Green (winner of A Mayor of Lewisham Business Award). It is such a wonderful place to have something to eat and relax with friends. Also one of my favourite parks is Forrester Park, which is an exciting place to relax, have fun with the children, exercise, and also walk your dog.
G REENWICH M ARKET STALL o WNER S ue Jen K in SWhat does the run up to Christmas look like for you?
The run up to Christmas is like being on a treadmill that’s being kranked up faster and faster. I usually start building up my stock of alpaca or woolly sweaters, hats and booties in July and I have a cut-off date mid-November for accepting commissions. I often have a pile of Christmas cards on my hall stand waiting to be posted on Christmas Eve.
Tell us about your business. What do you sell?
My main business, Handmade by Sue Jenkins, is knitwear and crochet design. I started designing patterns as a teenager and then at art college focusing mainly on adults, but now my work at Greenwich Market is selling handmade children’s clothes in natural yarns – cotton, alpaca, merino, bamboo – and knitting patterns. I also design patterns for magazines and take on commissions for all sorts of things.
Have you spotted any trends? Which of your items have been selling particularly well?
People are desperate for woolly socks and jumpers! I only use natural yarns and British wool in my knitwear, and my baby booties are great for keeping little toes warm. But there has been an increase in the number of people asking for socks for much bigger people too – those hoping to keep warm while putting off firing up their central heating.
Speaking of, Greenwich Market is covered but it’s not warm in winter!
How do you prevent yourself getting a chill when you’re behind your stall all day?
There’s a lot of layering going on! I think eight layers is the top-half record and three on the bottom. Fleecy inserts in boots help, as does carpeting the inside of your stall with cardboard boxes. It’s amazing how brilliant an insulator cardboard is. The Coach & Horses does a very good mulled wine and Ideal Coffee stall does excellent coffee and hot chocolate to keep me going.
How will you be spending Christmas Day?
I usually get flung off the treadmill on Christmas Eve and spend three days with my family. We’ve always spent Christmas at home in Greenwich, and even though my kids are now in their twenties, they
still like to wake up in their own home with their Santa sacks. After Boxing Day it’s back to the market again.
What do you love about Greenwich at this time of year?
My usual Christmas break is spent running round neighbours’ and friends’ houses delivering cards on Christmas Eve. I love going for a walk around the streets and up to the park looking at the lights and decorations, especially if we manage to walk past a cosy looking pub on the way home – and Greenwich has plenty
of those! Our Christmas day traditions involve a manic treasure hunt around the house, catching up with local friends for drinks and presents, and, usually, a walk in Greenwich Park or along the riverside. Then snoozing in front of the telly.
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How has the lead up to Christmas been for you?
As always, I’ve been very, very busy! The reindeer and elves keep me pretty
organised, but there are always one or two last-minute present requests to keep me on my toes. This year I’ve been stationed at the Old Royal Naval College, giving storytelling sessions in the Nelson Room. What an amazing place! I love all the paintings of Kings and Queens and Greek myths. I was wondering, however, why nobody painted me up there?
Finally, a day off! How will you be spending it? Hopefully putting your feet up somewhere?
Oh, ho-ho. A day off is a rare thing. By the time I’ve finished circling the world delivering presents, I’d have eaten hundreds of mince pies. You’d think I wouldn’t have room for more, but I do! A nice sit by the fire with my roast dinner and pudding sounds just right to me. No amount of Christmas eve treats would put me off my roast potatoes and parsnips... and Brussels sprouts. It won’t take long before I start thinking about Christmas 2023 though!
It’s just so very jolly! As you know, I love to eat, so whenever I come to Greenwich, I buy some food from every stall in the market. So delicious! My reindeer and I do like to share some cakes too, and we’re never short of yummy goodies in Greenwich. Food aside, Greenwich has always been a special place to me, as it helps me to get everywhere on time. Without the Observatory to help me tell the time and to show me how to use the stars to navigate, I’d surely get lost! I especially love coming during the Christmas period, as the lights are on, and I can hear some beautiful Carol singing coming from the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul at the Old Royal Naval College. But this year is truly special, as The Museum of the Moon in the Painted Hall is here to keep us all company.
Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s (CACT) Valley Gold Advanced Centre has been re-named to recognise the fan-led membership scheme, Valley Gold, which has agreed to support the programme for this year.
The Valley Gold Advanced Centre offers talented young players from CACT’s community programmes the opportunity to train weekly whilst following a specialised Charlton Athletic Academy curriculum.
As Valley Gold already funds the Charlton Athletic Academy to unearth the talents of tomorrow through memberships and competitions, it was a natural progression for them to support the Advanced Centre, which acts as CACT’s pathway into the Academy.
CACT recently had a visit from former Charlton Athletic winger Scott Wagstaff. Scott was one of the first youngsters to reach Charlton’s Academy via the Advanced Centre.
With Valley Gold supporting the centre for this season, the hope
is that more playing opportunities against the academy teams can be provided, and from there, coaches can see which players are capable to be put forward for trial.
A significant number of Academy players over the past year have come through the CACT pathway and have been regularly training at the Charlton Athletic Training Ground from a young age with the Advanced Centre, or from other CACT programmes. This month, two Post-16 Football & Education Academy players also earnt trials with Charlton’s Academy.
Progression routes to Charlton Athletic Academy are also open to participants on other CACT football programmes, such as holiday football courses or weekly Charlton Challenge sessions, who show considerable talent enjoy opportunities to play in front of Advanced Centre scouts.
CACT holiday courses take place throughout school holidays, and will be returning during the February half-term. For booking information, please visit cact.gives/courses.
As Charlton Athletic Community Trust’s (CACT) Senior Football & Sports Development Officer, one of the main parts of my role is running the Valley Gold Advanced Centre.
I was wondering what to write about this week so I picked up a pin and chose a firm at random from John Smith’s History of Charlton. What came up was A.C.E. Holdings who were in Westmoor Street and made various sorts of machinery. I couldn’t really get to grips with them apart from finding out they began in Brixton. Then I realised that what they had done was to take over a company called William Jones & Co. who were based in Westmoor Street - so I thought I had better see what I could find out about William Jones.
They turn out to be most interesting.
I checked out what John Smith had written about William Jones & Co. but it all turned out to be a little bit not quite true. I wondered if he had compiled his article from a series of interviews, perhaps with past members of the workforce. I can find no other information about them - apart from in a book produced by the Industrial Railway Society which talks about companies who handled various industrial railway locomotives and I’ll come back to that later on.
The original William Jones in the William Jones Company was born in Deptford, in Counter’s Hill, which today is Lewisham Road. He seems to have spent his childhood in the Florence Road, Deptford. His mother was Harriet Preston, and I’ll come back to her in a moment.
His father was James Jones who was ‘whitesmith’ from Cornwall. He had come to London where he was working as a tailor or a cutter – a tailor’s cutter is of course a very, very skilled occupation and extremely different from a whitesmith who is a sort of metal worker. I wonder what this change of occupation is about. His father - William’s grandfather – came from Westminster and seems to have been a sailor who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar and then became a Pensioner at Greenwich Hospital. He is said to have been the Armourer on board HMS Conqueror at Trafalgar. That’s an important position, particularly if your ship is fighting in a major naval battle.
Anyway, back to William. John Smith says that in 1880 he started a business as an iron and steel merchant based in Upper Thames Street – this must be an office of some sort, not somewhere which could function as an iron foundry. He would have been about 30 by then, so he must have been doing something else before that and I suspect he was working as a clerk in a similar business. John Smith says he then opened a yard and a small workshop in Creek Road Deptford and expanded into civil engineering design.
If you trawl through the net looking for William Jones, putting in the address in Upper Thames Street, you come up with several web sites about work to preserve old machinery, most of which relate to the preserved railway world.
These items all have a maker’s plaque on them which says ‘William Jones, Upper Thames Street’. For example, one of the items is a huge tank which is on Rickmansworth Railway Station. I think that Rickmansworth is very proud of the tank but I can’t find out how much water was stored in it. However it is huge and a considerable space would have been needed to build it in. Another item concerns a clock from Creeslough Railway Station in Ireland. This is a puzzle because clock making is a very precise trade and there were specialist clockmakers who didn’t also make giant tanks. So who really made it?
If William Jones was actually involved in making all of these items he would have needed a huge manufacturing establishment. Or, more likely, was he an agent for all sorts of manufacturing companies whose products he sold to the railway world?
John Smith says that William Jones opened a small workshop and yard in Creek Road, Deptford. I have been unable to track this down – although such sites are easily missed and I don’t have access to the ‘Rate Books’ (records, hopefully very accurate, kept by the local authority about who paid the rates on which site). What I did find under ‘William Jones’ in directories was a workshop of some size in the arches below Deptford Station. In 1909 this workshop was visited by Alfred Bennett, who wrote a book about the history of the Greenwich Railway. He describes at some length the old railway maintenance yard which was alongside and south of the station, roughly on the site where what used to be called the ‘inclined plane’ has now been restyled as ‘Deptford Carriage Ramp’ and the area around it ‘Deptford Market Yard’ full of cafes and the like.
In 1909 Mr Bennett interviewed the foreman of ‘Mr William Jones and Co., machinery contractors’ who leased the yard here and several of the railway arches. He adds that two of the railway arches were used for contractor’s locomotives. How did they get to the site? Speculatively I wonder if they were hauled down to the workshops from the railway via the inclined plane, aka carriage ramp. Mr Jones’ foreman told him that the site was formerly occupied by ‘brass foundry’.
One company was famous for having an early factory in the arches underneath Deptford Station. This was JosiahStone
whose works was to become J Stone and Company, engineers, based in Deptford and Charlton, with an international reputation. Josiah Stone had been employed by Gordon & Co who were foundry men and ship builders with a site between the River and Deptford Green. They had begun as a ‘braziers’, working in brass and copper amd Josiah Stone set up his own workshop nearby to make copper nails and rivets. In 1842 he moved to vacant spaces under Deptford railway station. His business expanded rapidly to build new works in surrounding streets and his company gave up the tenancy of the railway arches in 1881 – around the time when William Jones moved in.
Stone’s, although begun by Josiah Stone, was not actually run by anyone of that name after Josiah died in 1867. From then on it was run by his partners George Preston and John Prestige. George Preston had a daughter called Harriet and, well, William Jones’s mother’s name was Harriet Preston. John Prestige had a granddaughter
called Maria, and William Jones’ first wife was a Maria Prestige. So William Jones seems to have moved into the premises recently vacated by his uncle amd his grandfather-in-law. It seems to me that there are issues here which need to be explained. Some of those issues are about the sourcing of all these items which claim to be made by William Jones of Upper Thames Street.
William Jones had three sons, William Prestige Jones and Edward Percy Jones. His wife Maria sadly died while they were very young and William married again, a Caroline Bath and had two daughters and another son, Arthur Basil Jones.
By then he had moved to Orpington. His house lay to the east of Orpington station. The area is now suburban roads, with some very nice and rather upmarket housing and some of the road names reflect that this was built on part of the estate of a big house called Lynnwood. This house stood in extensive grounds and it is where
In 1922 the three sons took out a lease on Granite Wharf in Banning Street in Greenwich and I’m somewhat ashamed to say that despite all the enormous amount of work that I’ve done on this area of East Greenwich I’ve never come across the Jones Brothers on that site. My impression was that Granite Wharf was leased to Mowlem when it was built and continued with their successor companies - so you learn something new every day! They are also said to have given up the lease on the Deptford station site at around this time. William Jones himself died in 1925. In his later years he is said to have been involved with the Brockley Baptist Church and with the Sunday School Union.
Of the three brothers, Edward Percy died and Arthur Basil left to form the Kentish Brick Company and so the younger William continued to run the company with two other associates. In 1936 they moved to a large site at Westmoor Street in Charlton where
they built four long corrugated iron sheds and had over 60 workers to make their various metal products. At this stage they were producing equipment for sewage works.
But what they seem most famously to have been doing in both the Greenwich and Westmoor Street sites was handling industrial railway locomotives. They had some sort of arrangement with a German company called Orenstein and Koppel with exclusive rights over their MontanIa locomotive. Orenstein were eventually to move to America but until 1939 their sales in Britain were handled by William Jones who built the locos from a sort of kit supplied from Germany.
I find this puzzling in particular with the Banning Street Granite Wharf site. In all the years I have been researching the area I have never found a reference to locomotives being built there. There are a lot of rail fans out there – why did none of them remark on it.Why have I seen no references to small boys watching them being taken out of the site on low loaders, for instance?
However the industrial railway history world is clearly very interested in Jones and his locomotives. The Jones company has by far the longest entry in the London site reference book. I haven’t tracked back any of the many references to the engines made here but I am sure there must be several out there in private hands, in museums, preserved railways, or rotting in people’s back gardens.
The Jones company survived the war with some bombing but no loss of life or production. However they were losing out to other companies and in the early ‘60s were taken over by A.C.E. Holdings although some ‘William Jones’ subsidiary companies continued.
It’s been a very quick run through, and perhaps a preliminary, of what is clearly a very important company and family - but one of which has hardly been noticed and about whom a lot of questions remain.
Where was all the stuff they sold made? What was their relationship to Stone’s? Why can I find no references to locomotive building in Banning Street?
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• Update to Plot 6 building footprint
• Clarification to the extent of flexible commercial uses in Plot 9
• Other minor clarifications to include parameter plans and the masterplan phasing plan/CIL phasing plans
(The development may also impact on the setting of 2no Grade II listed buildings, being the Council Depot and Plumstead Fire Station)
This application is accompanied by an Environmental Statement Addendum and Revised Non-Technical Summary which provides further information to the Environmental Statement approved within the original planning application 19/4398/O (approved 21/05/21) and the Environmental Statement Addendum approved with the superseding application 21/3540/MA (approved 09/11/22) as referred to above.
Applicant: Ms P Carter 22/3890/HD
Site Address: 23 MANOR WAY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 9EF
Development: Demolition of front dormer, two chimney stacks and the rear part of the existing dwelling; construction of a part two, part single storey rear extension, roof extensions with replacement rear dormer, front porch
extension; excavation of new basement floor; replacement of lean-to structure; installation of solar PV panels on the roof; provision of two additional vehicle parking spaces; other associated external alterations including landscaping works. (This application involves demolition in the Blackheath Park Conservation Area and affects its settings.)
Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK
Applicant: Mr and Mrs Turton 22/3937/HD
Site Address: 42 GREENWICH SOUTH STREET, LONDON, SE10 8UN
Development: Construction of rear infill extension at lower ground floor level with bi-fold, crittal style windows; new upper ground floor rear entrance door and side panel in crittal style; updating of existing rear access steps and railings; new lightwell gated entrance to the upper ground floor level front facade and lower ground floor level lightwell double doors with fixed side panels; other associated external alterations.
Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE
Applicant: Mr Paul Rye 22/3948/F
Site Address: 26A HEAVITREE ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON, SE18 7RB
Development: Replacement of existing windows to front façade to flat A only and replacement door to rear façade and associated external works
Conservation Area: PLUMSTEAD COMMON
Applicant: Berkeley Homes (East Thames) and Peabody Land Ltd 22/3989/r
Site Address: Land bounded by Pettman Crescent, Nathan Way and Hadden Road, London, SE28
Development: Submission of reserved matters application (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for Plot 6 only pursuant to condition 15 of parent planning permission ref.19/4398/O dated 21 May 2021 as amended under S73 planning permission ref. 21/3540/MA dated 09 November 2022 comprising the construction of upto 154 residential units and industrial floorspace with associated parking and private and public open spaces.
Note. the application documents refer to the layout proposed under the live application 22/3782/MA which proposes minor material amendments to ref. 21/3540
MA
Applicant: Mr Shoyab Master 22/3449/L Site Address: 29 FAIRFIELD GROVE, CHARLTON, LONDON, SE7 8UA
Development: Listed Building Consent for the demolition of existing rear extension and construction of a part 1 part 2 storey rear extension; internal alterations; alteration to fenestration; removal of paint to brickwork on rear elevation; replacement rear windows; parapet wall along shared boundary; insulated render to rear projection; replacement rainwater goods to rear with metal gutters and down pipes; removal of existing concrete hard standing to rear garden; new landscaping to rear garden; repairs to back of pavement boundary wall; new loft hatch; installation of bathroom to first floor; Minor alterations to the first floor layout to include a new opening in existing spine wall; new lightweight partitions to form bedroom entrance lobby; removal of non-historic flue and hearth in rear addition; enlarged openings in non-historic rear addition structural walls, replacement door and associated external alterations.
Conservation Area: CHARLTON VILLAGE
Listed Building: Grade 2
Applicant: Mr Peter Griffin 22/4068/A Site Address: 43-45 POWIS STREET, LONDON, SE18 6HZ
Development: Installation of internally illuminated fascia sign, internally illuminated projecting sign and update logo and text.
Conservation Area: Woolwich Conservation Area
1.
royAL BorouGH of GrEEnWicH roAD trAFFic rEGuLAtion Act 1984 – sEction 14(1)
WiLmount strEEt PLAnnED roAD cLosurE (orDEr)
1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out a disconnection.
2. The Order will come into operation on 9th January 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However, the works are expected to take 5 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, proceeding, or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading), in Wilmount Street from outside 8 and reverse the one way from the junction of Anglesea Avenue to the junction of Masons Hill.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted by 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 12/10/22
(INTERNAL REF: PL/447/LA435235)
royAL BorouGH of GrEEnWicH roAD trAFFic rEGuLAtion Act 1984 – sEction 14(1) [commonwealth Way] PLAnnED roAD cLosurE (orDEr)
2. The Order will come into operation on 9th January 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take one day. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Commonwealth Way outside number 7.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Bostall Lane, Federation Road and vice versa. 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.
Assistant Director, Transport
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ
Dated 19th December 2022
(INTERNAL REF: PL/000/LA441233)
royAL BorouGH of GrEEnWicH roAD trAFFic rEGuLAtion Act 1984 – sEction
[Bostall Lane]
PLAnnED roAD cLosurE (orDEr)
2. The Order will come into operation on 5th January 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take one day. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.
3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Bostall Lane at the junction of Federation Road and Federation Road at the junction of Bostall Lane.
4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via (i) McLeod Road, Dahlia Road, Fuchsia Road and vice versa. (ii) Commonwealth way and vice versa. 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.
Assistant Director, Transport
The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ Dated 19th December 2022
(INTERNAL REF: PL/000/LA441252)
royAL
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich has made an Order to prevent danger to the public by restricting drivers parking where they prevent a fire appliance entering and using the road under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
3. The above restrictions would only apply at such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by the placing or covering of the appropriate traffic signs.
4. The Order would come into force on 22nd December 2022 and will remain in force for 18 months.
5. Queries concerning these works should be directed to traffic.team@royalgreenwich.gov.uk quoting reference 12-22 North Road.
Dated 21st December 2022
royAL BorouGH oF GrEEnWicH the Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and stopping restrictions) (Amendment no. *) order 202* the Greenwich (charged For-Parking Places) (Amendment no. *) order 202*
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) proposes to make 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.
2. The general effect of the Orders would be to: a) Replace Pay & Display Mon-Sat 9am-5pm and Sun 9am-6pm 4 hours bays with Pay & Display Mon-Sat 9am-5pm and Sun 9am-6pm 4 hours no return within 2 hours bays at the following locations, at the new rates set out in Schedule 1 to this Notice:
i) Brand Street, east side, from a point 4.9 metres north of the common boundary of 3 and 5 Brand Street in a southerly direction for 10.8 metres.
ii) Greenwich South Street, west side, from it’s a point opposite a point 2.5 metres south of the southern property boundary of 23 Greenwich South Street in a southerly direction for 10.5 metres.
iii) King George Street, south-east side, from a point 2.2 metres north-east of the southern property boundary of 98 King George Street in a north-easterly direction for 11.4 metres.
iv) King George Street, north-west side, from a point 4.5 metres south-west of its junction with Royal Place in a south-westerly direction for 17 metres.
v) Maidenstone Hill, north-west side, from a point opposite the common boundary of 29 and 31 Maidenstone Hill in a north-easterly direction for 5.3 metres.
vi) Prior Street, east side, from a point 0.5 metres north of a point opposite the southern property boundary of 22 Prior Street in a northerly direction for 11.5 metres.
vii) Roan Street, north-west side, from a point 3.4 metres south-west of the north-eastern property boundary of 92 Roan Street in a south-westerly direction for 5.8 metres.
viii) Royal Place, south side, from a point 3.2 metres west of a point opposite the common boundary of 13 and 14 Royal Place in an easterly direction for 10.4 metres.
ix) Straightsmouth, south side, from a point 6.5 metres west of a point opposite the eastern property boundary of 88 Straightsmouth in a westerly direction for 11.5 metres.
x) West Grove, south-east side, from a point 12 metres south-west of the northern kerbline of Westgrove Lane in a south-westerly direction for 12 metres.
b) 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).
3. A copy of the proposed Orders and other documents can be viewed by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference Pay by phone conversion 22-12).
4. Further information may be obtained by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.
5. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Orders, should send a statement in writing by 11th January 2023, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made by email to parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference Pay by phone conversion 22-12).
6. Persons objecting to the proposed Orders 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.
Assistant Director, Transport Communities, Environment and Central Royal Borough of Greenwich
Dated 21st December 2022
schedule 1 – the new Pay & Display charges for Greenwich town centre (G) (Brand street outside 3-5, Greenwich south street opposite 23-27, King George street opposite 46-50 and outside 98-102, maidenstone Hill opposite 29, Prior street opposite 22, roan street outside 92, royal Place opposite 14-16, straightsmouth opposite 88, West Grove only) 90p an hour
royAL BorouGH oF GrEEnWicH
the Greenwich (Free Parking Places, Loading Places and Waiting, Loading and stopping restrictions) (Amendment no. *) order 202* the Greenwich (charged For-Parking Places) (Amendment no. *) order 202*
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) proposes to make 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.
2. The general effect of the Orders would be to:
a) Introduce double yellow line ‘at any time’ waiting restrictions at the following locations:
i) Aberford Gardens, both sides, from its junction with Tellson Avenue for 10 metres in a northerly direction.
ii) Tellson Avenue, north side, from a point 10 metres east to a point 10 metres west of its junction with Aberford Gardens.
iii) Pallet Way, both sides, from its junction with Stane Way for 15 metres in a southerly direction.
iv) Stane Way, south-east side, from a point 10 metres north-east to a point 10 metres south-west of its junction with Pallet Way.
v) Stane Way, south-east side, from a point 11.4 metres south-west of the northern property boundary of No. 19 Stane Way for a distance of 18 metres in a south-westerly direction.
vi) Stane Way, south-east side, from a point 1 metre south-west of the western property boundary of No.1 Stane Way for a distance of 5 metres in a south-westerly direction.
vii) Stane Way, south-east side, from a point 19.4 metres north-east of the western property boundary of No.10 Stane Way for a distance of 16 metres in a north-easterly direction.
viii) Stane Way, north-west side, from a point 17.4 metres north-east of the western property boundary of No.10 Stane Way for a distance of 151 metres in a south-westerly direction.
ix) Stane Way, north-west side, from a point 5.3 metres south-west of the western property boundary of No.1 Stane Way for a distance of 4.5 metres in a south-westerly direction.
x) Oriole Way, east side, from its junction with Claridge Way for a distance of 10 metres in a northerly direction.
xi) Oriole Way, south-east side, from its junction with Claridge Way for a distance of 20.5 metres in a south-westerly direction.
xii) Oriole Way, south-east side, from a point 20.7 metres north-east of its junction with Bentham Road for a distance of 10 metres on a north-easterly direction.
xiii) Bramblebury Road, east side, from its junction with Heavitree Road for 10 metres in a northerly direction.
xiv) Heavitree Road, north side, from its junction with Bramblebury Road for 10 metres in an easterly direction.
b) 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).
3. A copy of the proposed Orders and other documents can be viewed by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference Minor Works 22-12).
4. Further information may be obtained by emailing parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.
5. Any person who wishes to object to or make other representations about the proposed Orders, should send a statement in writing by 11th January 2023, specifying the grounds on which any objection is made by email to parking-design@royalgreenwich.gov.uk (quoting reference Minor Works 22-12).
6. Persons objecting to the proposed Orders 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. Assistant Director,
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Donations have been given to Greenwich Winter Night Shelter and the HER Centre to support vital work they are doing.
The funds were secured from commercial filming in the borough and given as part of the Greenwich Supports campaign. Donations were given to the Greenwich Winter Night Shelter, which supports people at risk of homelessness, and the HER Centre, a charity that supports women and girls who have experienced domestic or sexual abuse.
Cllr Anthony Okereke, Leader of the Council, presented a cheque of £2,000 at a fundraising Sleepout event at Avery Hill Activity Centre on Friday 2 December.
At the event he said: “Greenwich Winter Night Shelter and the HER Centre provide vital support to some of the most vulnerable people in our borough - it is an honour to give them both a financial boost before Christmas.”
Cllrs Mariam Lolavar and Averil Lekau, presented a donation of £1,000 to the Her Cente at the Town Hall on Monday 5 December.
Through the Big Give Christmas Challenge the donation will be doubled to £2,000.
Read more at royalgreenwich.gov.uk/big-give22
If the weather gets bad the Council has its winter service plan to help keep the borough moving.
When there is snow or ice forecast we spread salt and grit on 184 miles of priority roads. During extended periods of severe cold weather we also visit more local roads.
If there is heavy snow, we may grit footways on busy high streets and in town centres to help residents get around safely. For locations of salt bins, route maps and more information visit royalgreenwich.gov.uk/winterweather
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