Join @vincerai.bsky.social and I as we go boatpubbing in Greenwich and Deptford. Still feeling a bit seasick, tbh. Or is it just hungover?

Good to see a detailed report on this issue - including details from us.

Important developments in #Greenwich, via @greenwichwire.bsky.social

More than 50 trees on Woolwich Common that were set to be chopped down have been given a reprieve - at least for now - after an application to widen a road was taken off a planning committee’s agenda. Plans for a new cycle lane had received over 500 objections. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/11/14/w...

Greenwich Council has unveiled its long-awaited plans to clamp down on new HMOs in the borough – although it may be some time before they come into force. The borough's proposed Local Plan also includes the first hints of plans to redevelop council estates. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/11/13/g...

Three new Docklands Light Railway trains have been taken out of service after one overshot a platform in wet weather. The long-awaited B23 trains started running between Stratford International and Woolwich just six weeks ago. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/11/12/n...

The Waterfront Leisure Centre will be knocked down and sold for housing, Greenwich Council has confirmed. The centre, a local landmark since 1988, is due to close after the new Woolwich Waves facility opens next month. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/11/12/w...

Rail travellers from Woolwich and Abbey Wood will face disruption this weekend as the Elizabeth Line closes for engineering works. Woolwich station will also be opening later on two mornings in the coming weeks.

Over 500 people have objected to plans to fell more than 50 trees to create a cycle lane at Woolwich Common – with the local London Cycling Campaign branch also unhappy. Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust plans to cut down 53 trees near Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

The part-time low-traffic neighbourhood in Greenwich and Blackheath will be made permanent after a panel of Labour councillors rejected challenges to the scheme. But there were pledges to fix traffic issues in Charlton that followed the LTN's introduction. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/11/07/g...

check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/... Blimey. House phone rang and mobile just beeped

London's Ringways are a whole network of unbuilt urban motorways threaded through the capital. There's never been a complete map of them,not even one made by their designers, until now. Today we're publishing the Ringways Map from @roads.org.uk to let you see in the city that London nearly became.

The Labyrinth on the Thames music festival plans to return to the Old Royal Naval College next year with a bigger event spread across nine days - and will find out next week whether it will be allowed to.

Greenwich Council’s leader has been told to mind his language after releasing a sweary video to promote an anti-flytipping initiative. Anthony Okereke said that fly-tipping was “lazy and criminal, and we’re not putting up with this s*** any more”. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/29/g...

Very privileged to be given a donation of the late, great Kevin Nolan's press passes along with hundreds of #cafc programmes and teamsheets

Basics aren't being done. Complaints highlight failings that should be carried out as a matter of course. Council has been & continues to be, reactive. Barnfield made me think of this. Clearly the cameras placed by their offshoot firm are long gone now... www.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/news/2022/ro...

Greenwich’s Ikea store could get a 20-storey tower for a neighbour after the developers of the Millennium Village submitted new plans for the final phase of the site. But neighbours are unhappy because a planned green space would be built upon.

Greenwich Council is promising to spend £5 million on a fly-tipping crackdown as the ruling Labour group gets ready for its most difficult election in decades. The cash, to be spent over the next four and a half years, is part of a package of spending promises. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/27/g...

Greenwich Council has found a new operator for the new café in Woolwich’s revamped market square – but for less rent than it was hoping for. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/24/b...

Plans to redevelop Woolwich Barracks when the army moves out will “celebrate our borough’s unique military history”, Greenwich Council’s leader has said – even though it has ruled out using the main building for the civic archive. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/24/w...

A structure in Greenwich that was instrumental in the first transatlantic telephone calls - and the development of today's internet - has been given the same protection as Stonehenge and the Tower of London.

Building 575 new homes on top of Woolwich’s Elizabeth Line station would not prevent TfL adding a second entrance at a later date, a developer said as Greenwich councillors approved its plans for towers of up to 26 storeys in the Royal Arsenal.

Transport for London has revealed its long-awaited plan to put Eltham on the Superloop express bus network – with a limited-stop service running to Clapham Junction, via Catford and Forest Hill.

Delighted to see that How To Spend It has discovered, of all places, Woolwich and Plumstead … www.ft.com/content/903c...

Plans to demolish Lewisham shopping centre and replace it with 1,700 homes and a new mall were backed by councillors on Thursday night amid angry scenes in the public gallery.

Plumstead police station’s front counter has been saved from closure – but will no longer be open 24 hours a day after the Metropolitan Police partially rolled back its plans for cuts.

Never shopped here but is a bit of an SE London institution? (Cc @greenwichwire.bsky.social a bit outside your beat I think?) news.sky.com/story/around...

Breaking news: Councillors voted to approve redeveloping Lewisham Shopping Centre tonight amid angry scenes. We’ll have coverage of this on the website tomorrow.

A new Geoffrey Fletcher book has been added to our collection – ‘London’s River’ from 1966. Here's a bit on the pubs of Greenwich.

There are too few passengers to justify a second entrance at Woolwich’s Elizabeth Line station, despite complaints about crowding, planning officers have concluded. Crowding is down to too many people getting off trains close to the escalators, they said. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/14/w...

The old Citibank tower in Lewisham has sat empty for years. Now two developers have their eye on turning it into housing, with the building's leaseholder hoping to put a spanner in the works of plans to redevelop the shopping centre.

“Control was handed to Greenwich in the 1980s” I’m not saying that everything wrong in this country is because of Thatcher but it happens more than you’d think.

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Now independent and Green councillors have joined the Tories in challenging the decision to make Greenwich’s low-traffic neighbourhood permanent - but for different reasons. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/10/g...

Campaigners have launched a petition calling for control of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to be transferred from Greenwich Council to Transport for London. The tunnel was originally run by London-wide government, but control was handed to Greenwich in the 1980s.

Now independent and Green councillors have joined the Tories in challenging the decision to make Greenwich’s low-traffic neighbourhood permanent - but for different reasons. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/10/g...

A Conservative councillor has challenged a decision to make the part-time low-traffic neighbourhood in Greenwich and Blackheath permanent, meaning there will be a new hearing about the issue at Woolwich Town Hall. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/10/g...

A two-way cycle lane will be installed on the north side of the Greenwich one-way system after plans were approved by Anthony Okereke, the council leader. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/09/g...

Plans to knock down Lewisham Shopping Centre for 1,700 new homes and a new mall could move forward next week when councillors decide whether or not to approve the scheme. Sainsbury's and Greenwich Council are objecting, while a protest is planned for Saturday. greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/10/09/l...

Plans for a 25-storey tower across the road from Abbey Wood station have been approved by City Hall, three months after Bexley Council threw out the project. Bexley had said the block would be too tall and would affect views from Lesnes Abbey.

Greenwich Council has ruled out using Woolwich’s historic barracks building as a new home for the borough archives once the army moves out in 2028. Up to 1,920 homes could be built – including converting the Grade II*-listed main building into housing.

When someone calls a pub an institution, there are always detractors. But we can't think of a single person who wouldn't agree that The Dog & Bell is exactly that. Will Hawkes joins us again for an insight into Deptford's most beloved pub. www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...

Building new homes is no bad thing, but there also needs to be some actual commitment to improving and maintaining things at street level here. What could be a vibrant community space by a major train station is grotty, neglected and depressing.

Plans for a 25-storey tower across the road from Abbey Wood station have been approved by City Hall, three months after Bexley Council threw out the project. Bexley had said the block would be too tall and would affect views from Lesnes Abbey.

Greenwich Council has ruled out using Woolwich’s historic barracks building as a new home for the borough archives once the army moves out in 2028. Up to 1,920 homes could be built – including converting the Grade II*-listed main building into housing.

Two teenagers jailed over machete killing of 15-year-old Daejaun Campbell in southeast London

Somewhat ironic that given the ‘plans for a rooftop bar at the library were cut to save money’ that Rooff Construction are being used to do the work.

Our London Centric piece this morning about the eviction of four more restaurateurs from Elephant and Castle, the major international money behind it, and the rapid diminution of the areas Latin America community www.londoncentric.media/p/elephant-c...

Sounds like the solution is to extend the LTN into Charlton. (Frankly, the fundamental problem here is not LTNs, it’s that the average driver is a selfish entitled prick who’ll do anything they can to avoid the rules applying to them.)

Would be criminal to lose this asset. It needs to be managed as a community equestrian centre for Greenwich and nearby Bexley boroughs.