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14th April 2023 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Browne
Greenwich Green Party members have challenged Greenwich Council to be more directive to developers in the Borough, and not let them get away with avoiding the highest of standards for new residential and commercial sites in the Borough. Greenwich Council has recently finished consulting on new planning guidance (known as the ‘Urban Design Guide Supplementary […]
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16th February 2023 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Browne
by Fiona Moore Our beloved Thames Path willows will stay – for now. The work to save them isn’t over. A proposal to fell the graceful row of willows along the Thames Path north of Morden Wharf went to Greenwich council’s planning board last week. It formed part of a plan to redo flood defences. […]
8th February 2022 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Objections to Shepherdleas development The Friends of Oxleas Woods have made an objection to a planned housing development that will be up to nine storeys tall. A statement by Friend of Oxleas (FOW) said: “We will be objecting on the grounds that the tower will have an adverse ecological impact on Shepherdleas Wood.” Objections from […]
12th May 2021 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Responding to planning application 20/1730/O On behalf of Greenwich and Bexley Green Party, I write to oppose the Morden Wharf planning application. It is beyond dispute that large buildings change the areas that they are constructed in. The area targeted by this development is comprised of low-rise/mid-rise buildings and open areas that will be harmed […]
16th March 2018 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Green candidate for Peninsula ward Dan Garrun is campaigning to overturn planning permission for the Enderby Wharf Cruise Terminal. In 2011, Labour councillors on Greenwich Council’s Planning Board unanimously approved a plan to turn Enderby Wharf into a huge terminal for cruise ships. In 2015 they voted in favour of an even bigger terminal on […]