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WestcombeNEWS Free to 3800 homes, in libraries and some shops February 2018 No. 1 Not too late to say Peaceful and Healthy New Year to all our readers! Have your say: how to improve our area?

ast October the WN reported on the established by surveys and through Better LCommunity Infrastructure Levy which Together meetings. They must have the is collected by the local authority from support of all ward councillors and should large developers and used, in part, to miti - be ready to start within 6 months. gate any negative effects of development. To deliver on this scheme, Royal The scheme was introduced by the has divided the borough into PHOTOS: Government to allow councils to raise four neighbourhood areas, with each area Myles Dove money from local developments which is given an allocation of money out of the then used to deliver infrastructure improve - Greenwich Neighbourhood Growth Fund A storm brought down this huge beech tree in ments. It largely replaces the Section 106 created by CIL. There is already half a at around 4.00 am on January agreements between councils and million pounds in the fund, to be split 18th, creating a hole in the park wall, and slightly developers – which will continue for between the four areas in the borough. damaging a parked car. It blocked but affordable housing, local employment was swiftly removed early in the morning. schemes and “non-strategic transport”. The procedure The money available will change each Some of the ideas suggested by residents at year, depending on what new developments the Better Together meetings were a youth Our Community needs YOU! have been built locally. club for people with special needs; the At a Council Cabinet conversion of the old toilet alling all Westcombe Parkers who love Is technology your strength? Perhaps you meeting in December the Maggie Gravelle block in Queenscroft; Ctheir area and would like to be part of can help re-shape the Society’s website, a arrangements were dredging The Tarn pond; the buzz of community spirit that makes vital means of linking the local community clarified and adopted. installing public water fountains in living in this part of so special. and sharing information with other local Westcombe Park is part of “Area 2” Greenwich Town centre, near the Cutty Perhaps you have recently moved to the groups. Or is journalism your thing? If so comprising Greenwich West, Peninsula and Sark; and more community art or murals, area and would like to make new friends. the award winning Westcombe News is Blackheath Westcombe wards. This year involving the local community. and maybe give something back always keen for input from just over £137,000 is available as part of Proposals must be fully costed and must to a local area we treasure for its Di Blackwell locals – writing stories, taking the, renamed, Greenwich Growth Fund and be endorsed by all councillors in the ward people, natural beauty and history photos, helping put the paper applications are invited for projects. The in which the proposal will be delivered. by getting involved with environmental together, or assisting in delivering it. good news is that there appear to be several All applications will be reviewed by a matters. Whatever your reason, the best Will you answer the call ? Will you help projects already in the pipeline. project board, which will then draw up a way to kick off a fresh new relationship keep the wonderful spirit of friendship and shortlist. The projects listed will then be with your fellow locals is to join The kindness alive in our special corner of the The bad news open for public consultation before a final Westcombe Society and/or volunteer to world? Please phone 0208 853 1312 if you The bad news is that by the time you decision is made in March. help with various fun activities, fundraisers are interested. receive this, you have less than a week to It was clear from discussions with and get-togethers during the year. apply for a grant for this round. Though councillors and officers that the Royal Community needs are always changing the scheme was signalled at the Better WESTCOMBE SOCIETY Borough of Greenwich is committed to and The Westcombe Society has long Together meetings in each of the four local improvements which are supported by played a dynamic role in helping young neighbourhood areas in June, it was only the community and that they view this and old to enjoy a sense of togetherness, given the final go-ahead at a Council initial round as the start of an annual and in encouraging new friendships. meeting in December – too late for the process which will change and develop Now we are calling for more people to joint December/January issue of the WN ; over time. They have appointed a project get involved and help out in its activities. and not ideal timing with Christmas and Saturday 17th February officer to give advice and assistance to any We would especially welcome an influx of New Year festivities looming. 7.30 - 10.00pm groups wishing to discuss ideas. young people to get involved to bring new Despite the representations by the The Westcombe Society, in collaboration ideas together with their energy and Westcombe Society and others that the Members' & Helpers' Party with other amenity societies in the area, is enthusiasm to the Society’s many various timescale was unrealistic, proposals have to Mycenae House Main Hall following developments closely. We will events. be submitted by February 4th. But in case report on any decisions taken and would Would you like to help organise teas, Invitations went out in mid-January. you are worried that you may have missed particularly welcome suggestions for local quizzes, charity walks and parties? Your New members welcome: the bus, any unspent money will be rolled projects from residents. contribution may simply be to offer a lift over to the following year. come and join on the night! Conditions, guidance and the application to elderly folk who find it hard to get to a Proposals, for projects over £5,000, have Please ring Caroline on 8853 0948 form are on the Royal Greenwich website. function. Alternatively you may wish to to meet a number of criteria, including Community groups requiring further get involved with reviewing changes to our if you did not receive yours demonstrating how they relate to the guidance or who have any questions can area and supporting infrastructure. neighbourhood priorities which were email [email protected] < < Newsbriefs > >

Westcombe Controlled Parking Zone parts of the frame were slightly damaged by a Bid to save the Natwest Bank “Rezone our stations” Since the initial consultation last year there bomb. There are still hopes that it could be In December Natwest announced that they will As fury mounts over the 3.5% fare rises in train have been a number of comments and amend - retained as a framework for apartments because be closing their branch in Old Dover Road. fares, there are calls for Westcombe Park and ments – one of which came from residents of its historic significance. . Local conservatives are campaigning to save Maze Hill Stations to be rezoned from Zone 3 to asking for their road be included. These all it,and urge us all to sign an online petition at Zone 2. Critics argue that North Greenwich is resulted in delays in implementation. In a letter Westcombe Hill traffic calming ipetitions.com/ petitionkeep-blackheath- in Zone 2 – and is a similar distance from to Cllr Geoff Brighty, Tim Jackson, RBG’s Speeding vehicles and HGVs have long been a westcombe-park-natwest-open central London to our local stations. The change Assistant Director, Transportation, apologised problem. Now proposals include new chicanes would save local commuters some £260 a year. Ultra-low Emissions Zone for the delay. Cllr Geoff Brighty has now (at the cost of some parking spaces) and a Local Conservative Cllr Geoff Brighty and his All drivers should be aware of the Mayor of informed the WN that the letters and permit larger roundabout mid-hill; A width restriction fellow candidates Thomas Turrell and Malcolm London’s proposals. See page 7. packs to residents and traders will be distributed at the foot of the hill to prevent HGVs taking a Reid have launched a petition online, and are by the 26th January. The scheme will commence short-cut is also being considered. Plans to expand Steiner School urging people to sign up. The petition is at by 19th February. At last! Steiner School is proposing to expand its tinyURL.com/RezoneWPandMHp. St George’s new shower facilities by building a new classrooom block Better Together . . . Gas holder: doomed? The Westcombe Society donation towards the opposite Woodlands House. See page 6. Following the advice of Historic that cost of a shower at St George’s means that The council has announced that the next Better the gas holder on the peninsular “does not meet guests during the Night Shelter period can have More disruption on the railway? Together meetings will be held in late January the criteria for listing”, the government has a shower if they wish to. The Night Shelter Although Greenwich Line trains now call at and early February. Details soon. Your chance to issued a Certificate of Immunity against listing operates from January to March. London Bridge again, we still suffer from share your views on what’s going on in the the structure. The gas holder, in place since weekend closures and overcrowding. The WS borough with the Borough Council. 1888, was in use until 1980. An ill wind . . . Environment Committee and the Greenwich . . . but better apart The council has decided So it looks as though the powers-that-be will Not just Maze Hill! In November, high winds Line User Group would like to hear your views: that if Mr Trump visits the UK, he would not be finish the job started by the IRA in 1980, when blew many tiles off Westcombe Court. environment@westcombesociety. org and/or welcomed in Greenwich. It seems that he got [email protected] the message . . . COMMUNITY Good news WEST CO MBE N EW S for the park 新年快乐 All editoriAl correspondence to : n January, the Royal Parks charity told Ithe WN that Greenwich Park is a giant (xīn nián kuài lè ) neville Grant , Editor step closer to receiving a multi-million [email protected] pound investment for Greenwich Park t’s February, so you may think it’s too Tel. 020 8858 8489 Revealed. - – a project to uncover its hid - Ilate to say “Happy New Year” All MAteriAl to Be sent to : den historical gems and enhance its natural Not so in China! Chinese New Year is environment for generations to come. celebrated by 20% of the [email protected] world’s popula- Last year, the Royal Parks applied for a The plans include proposals which aim to: tion. This year it’s the Year of the Dog, deadline for the March grant of £4.8M through the Parks for • Revive historical features from Andre Le and it begins on February 15th 2018. issue: 16th February People scheme, jointly funded by the Big Notre’s original 17th century baroque During Chinese New Year it is the environment editor: Maggie Lottery Fund (BIG). design for the park. custom to pay a visit to the eldest (seniors Gravelle The charity has now been awarded • Reinstate the Edwardian landscape at from the husband’s side) in the family sub-editor: Annie Grey development funding to work up proposals the Flower Garden and Wilderness Park first. Don’t forget to bring gifts! (Your reporters: The community – that over the next eighteen months, and then • Create more opportunities for the local editor eagerly awaits same . . . ) means you! invited to submit a Phase 2 application to community to get involved In return, the oldies give the younger secure the full £4.8M grant. • Improve visitor facilities generation money “to anchor the year”, environMent coMMittee Greenwich Park Revealed will enable Graham Dear, Greenwich Park Manager, and bring prosperity. The money used to emily norton All queries and The Royal Parks charity, which manages said: “We’re delighted to be a step closer be small coins fastened with red ribbons. comments to: 020 8853 2756 the 183-acre park, to conserve and improve to securing this crucial investment. Our These days it’s paper money in red [email protected] the World Heritage Site and Grade 1 Listed next task is to build on the proposals we’ve envelopes. The only snag is the money distriBution emily norton and landscape for the 4.8 million people who submitted; we look forward to a successful isn’t real, it’s like Monopoly money. volunteers. visit every year. final result in the months to come.” Volunteer distributors please phone 020 8853 2756 , we need your help! AdvertisinG MAnAGer Many thanks to all our Marilyn little, 163 Westcombe Hill, se3 7dp 020 8853 1312 donors and sponsors [email protected] Our Christmas Bazaar could not succeed without the support of local businesses and traders. With their assistance, the Westcombe Society All adverts payable in advance by cheque to the Westcombe society . raised over £1,300 for the charities MumsAid and MEfA. displAY: Single column 6cm x 6cm: Sponsors of the Christmas B Brown Sir St George’s, Glenluce Rd. One - four issues £35, five-plus issues £30 Tree DIY Standard Sparkes Westcombe Park each. Other sizes: please inquire. Westcombe Dry Cleaners Fergus Noone Standard Supermarket classified Ads (Market Place) 30p per word Sundays: 11.00 am Children’s Church (A telephone number = one word. An email/ at 74 Westcombe Hill Go West The Voewood web address = 3 words.) Deadline for all Village Flower Shop 11.00 a.m. Holy Communion (All Age service 1st Sunday of each month) adverts is 10th day of the preceding month. Bid Sponsors Mara Wellbean Sue Clark Moca Westcombe News Wednesdays: 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer printed by: trojan press David Lloyd N & R News Westcombe Food & Wine 12.30 p.m. Soup Lunch Fellowship followed by Lenten study of the Acts contact the Westcombe society: John Cockcroft Nickys News who also donated the Sceptics Group meets at 89 Westcombe [email protected] Pares water for the Macmillan Pk Road) 1st & 3rd Sunday each month publisher: The Westcombe Society Other donations Passion Flower Walk, chairman: Marilyn Little Tel. 020 8853 1312 Special Events in February Apple and Orange Pravins Together with a number Ash Wednesday 14th Feb: Communion The v iews expressed in the Westcombe Blackheath Pet Supplies Simon Carter of private donations. Service 11.45am News are not necessarily those of the Wed. Feb 21st 7.30 at St George’s: Westcombe Society or of the Editor. Spiritual Film Night: “Glory” We take all reasonable precautions to Any views expressed are not necessarily those of protect the interests of our readers by Letters either the Westcombe Society, or the Westcombe News . Contact: Rev’d Tim Yeager ensuring as far as possible the bona fides [email protected] Tel. 07804 614245 of our advertisers but cannot accept any responsibility for them. Any complaints From: Wendy Fidler MEfA British people will be the losers with any Brexit issue of the WN . How can Greenwich Council should be addressed to the advertiser. On behalf of the board of trustees for “deal” , so who are the winners that are pulling expect residents to take its claims of wanting to Montessori Education for Autism (MEfA), I the strings of the executive behind the scenes? combat air pollution and climate change serious - To access back-numbers (in colour) go to: would like to thank you for choosing us as one I think it is necessary to smoke out who is ly when it continues to support the Silvertown www.westcombesociety.org/westcombe-news/ of the Westcombe Society charities of the year. pulling the strings on Brexit. Who was provid - Tunnel project ? Westcombe Society’s Blog: We were thrilled to receive your donation which ing the funds to Aaron Banks to bankroll the If the Silvertown Tunnel is built, it will http://westcombe.blogspot.com has enabled us to replace some ageing tables Brexit campaign in the referendum? There is a increase pollution in the borough, not to men - with high quality tables which have adjustable huge hidden dimension to Brexit that must be tion congestion, as it will attract more traffic to height legs. The new tables are now suitable for brought out clearly into the open. Who is it East Greenwich. It would also increase the children aged 4 - 14 years. (see photo below.) who is having such an influence on policy and traffic levels in Blackheath Westcombe Ward, as Westcombe societY membersHiP Our children, parents and teachers are what are they hoping to gain? Tax exiles? It vehicles try and avoid congestion elsewhere. Please send this membership form to: delighted, and they join with me in thanking worries me when I learn that John Redwood is As the Official Monster Raving Loony Party christine Legg, 69 mycenae road, you all, and wishing you a very Happy 2018. advising investors to invest outside Britain. candidate for Blackheath Westcombe Ward in London, se3 7se Meanwhile we urgently need a paper that the 2018 local elections, I will continue to describes the salient steps necessary to negotiate oppose the tunnel if re-elected to Greenwich Name...... a free trade deal with other markets in which Council. Even Loonies think the Silvertown there are bound to be both winners and losers. Tunnel is a crazy idea ! Address...... Any free trade deal opens up your own market ...... to the same access from the 'other markets'. Is From: Ann Hill Beaconsfield Road that what we really want? Dear Team You do an excellent job...thank you. tel...... For the negotiators to reach agreement, both In response to your 5 questions in November's issue regarding the amount and coverage of email: ...... sides need detailed sector by sector analyses of current and future trade in each sector, and local news, local issues etc the answer is 'Good' Please enclose payment as appropriate: both sides need to conduct their own 'impact to all five. If there had been an 'Excellent' assessments' of the effects for consumers , option I would have chosen that. Family membership £12 [ ] employers and employees. Such a negotiation ED: The survey is still open for responses. individual membership £8 [ ] From: G. Bailey Westcombe Park Road would probably take years. senior citizens/unwaged £4 [ ] Peter Greaves’ review of Nick Clegg’s book Meanwhile, the British economy is How to Stop Brexit in the last issue of the WN likely to deteriorater badly, with was timely: last year the book was voted the the result that .Mr Fox would be Parliamentary Book of the Year by both the negotiating from a position of House of Commons and the House of Lords. weakness. Could it be that our esteemed representatives in It’s time for our elected repre - Parliament are themselves having second sentatives in Parliament to do the thoughts, and are at last thinking of putting the job they were elected to do: to good of the country above their party loyalties? decide what is best for the country. One also wonders why a significant number That includes a non-Party political of MPs passionate about leaving the EU should debate (no Party Whips allowed) wish to hamstring parliamentary democracy and on whether to abandon the Brexit prevent Parliament having a vote on crucial process, and hold a properly issues on the Brexit process. The same people informed referendum. were insistent on how important sovereignty and the democratic process are when they conned From: Trevor Allman Coleraine the electorate in the referendum campaign... Road I read with incredulity your article www.headstart.it From: Mike Radcliffe on Greenwich Council’s “Greener It seems to me that the vast majority of the Greenwich Strategy” in the last 2 Westcombe News February 2018 LOCAL NEWS

TIM Plans for Greenwich Town centre All systems go at St George’s YEAGER

oyal Greenwich’s ambitious plans to immediate area, it is likely that making t George’s Church had a fruitful A Lenten study course is being offered Rtransform Greenwich Town Centre improvements will be quite a challenge. SChristmas season. At our Christmas on the Acts of the Apostles, using video moved a step closer after winning funding The plan is to make Greenwich Town services more than £500 was collected for and materials from the Yale Divinity from the Mayor of London’s Liveable Centre a much more attractive place for the Greenwich Winter Night Shelter. Then School: sessions follow the Wednesday Neighbourhoods initiative. both visitors and residents. The Council’s on 5th January the church hosted a concert soup lunch fellowship, starting on the 7th Royal Greenwich is one of only seven proposals include designing a more by the Aeris Brass ensemble; the retiring of February, repeated at 7.30pm on boroughs to be chosen in the initial round generous and welcoming pedestrian collection raised more than £200 for the Thursdays at the Vicarage. (But please note of bids for funding under the Transport for environment, in particular on the approach Shelter. St George’s thanks everyone who that the first evening group will be on London programme. to the World Heritage Site. It will also came and for the generous donations. Wednesday, 31st of January, but other The Liveable Neighbourhoods initiative provide a safe cycling route through the We have started the New Year with an sessions will be on Thursdays.) is the first scheme set up to deliver the town centre. active schedule of community events, Ash Wednesday on 14th Feb. kicks off Mayor's ‘Healthy Streets Approach across Cllr Denise Hyland, Leader of Royal study groups and loving service to the with a ceremony dispensing ashes at London’ plan. This plan aims at improving Greenwich, said: “We worked hard to community. On 9th January, the first night Westcombe Park station during morning air quality and reducing congestion, and develop a successful bid that will help of the Greenwich Winter Night Shelter at rush hour, followed by a communion encouraging residents and visitors to walk, transform Greenwich Town Centre into a St George’s began, hosting up to 15 service at 11:45 am. And February’s cycle and use public transport. destination truly compatible with its World homeless people, with a delicious dinner, a Spiritual Film Night features “Glory”, a Heritage Status and we look forward to warm sleep, and a hearty breakfast. 1989 film about the first Black regiment in Key target: Greenwich. improving the environment for residents The Spiritual Film Night series resumed the American Civil War. Greenwich Town Centre is at the heart of and visitors alike.” in January with a showing of Woody Members are very engaged in the the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage The Royal Borough of Greenwich is Allen’s “Crimes and Misdemeanors”. Also Greenwich Winter Night Shelter and also Site which attracts an estimated 18 million one of London’s most popular destinations, in January, Rev’d Tim led a group on a in the Greenwich Sanctuary Project, which visitors a year. attracting over 18 million visitors each tour of Westminster Abbey, culminating in provides support to Syrian refugees. If you Observers note that, given that the town year , providing more than 15,000 jobs, Evensong. On 27th we hosted a Burns would like more information or would like is on a major East-West travel route, with and generating some £1.2 billion for the Night celebration, with a live band, haggis to volunteer for any of these activities, most of the traffic coming from outside the local economy. (of course) and bagpipes. contact Rev’d Tim at [email protected]. Mental Health Activity Trust The EU Can’t act on Enderby Awards Aline Duriaud he petition by East Greenwich TResidents’ Association (EGRA) n December, local charity The Mental to the European Parliament on the IHealth Activity Trust’s annual award London City cruise port at Enderby ceremony took place at The Boys’ Brigade Wharf has been turned down. The Hall in Blackheath. petition called for a cleaner, shore- The event was a lively celebration of the based energy supply for visiting volunteers and supporters who contribute ships. In the considered opinion to keeping this independent community from the European Commission: organisation running. Since 2014 MHA • overall environmental Trust has improved the lives of people assessment is not with mental health problems by helping a requirement under EU law, them gain the skills and confidence needed only a small independent charity in the • breaches in air pollution within to find paid employment and training. back end of Blackheath.” the UK, which the Opinion notes occur EGRA is considering its next steps. They It has helped over fifty people to access Toni emphasised the importance of this in London and specifically Greenwich, will include following up the case made work and supported over a thousand with organisation and how financial backing is are being pursued through infringement last summer to Michael Gove, Secretary of welfare and benefits issues. necessary to keep it going. Awards were fines, and finally, State for the Environment. EGRA will The theme of this year’s event was True given out to volunteers for outstanding • "If the Member State grants permission seek a meeting and will also continue to Colours, signifying the charity’s mission to contributions over the past year by to a project that would increase discuss riverine air pollution with the Port create a welcoming space where people Westcombe News editor Neville Grant. pollution beyond the limit values for of London Authority (PLA) and the Royal can be themselves. Over seventy people The event reflected the Mental Health ambient air quality, it would logically Borough. Our local MP, Matt Pennycook, attended and enjoyed cocktails, music, a Activity Trust’s mission of inclusivity with have to take compensating measures to continues to actively promote the case for buffet dinner and entertainment in the form a wide range of local people, some who ensure compliance with the limit values" a clean cruise port. of celebrity drag queens Bagga Chipz and had experienced mental health problems, These opinions may appear anodyne but “No cruise liner will happily dock in Minnie Diamond, and a stunning fire others professionals in the mental health they may well help with the next steps in Greenwich unless shore-side power is eating and juggling display by To m. field, and customers and locals, coming securing a clean cruise port with onshore installed,” comments Ian Blore, for EGRA. CEO Toni Hale and volunteers spoke together to enjoy a fun and celebratory power supply at Enderby Wharf. “The community will see to that.” about the charity’s impact on their lives evening with a serious message. and the local community. Toni Hale said The MHAT is unique in its creative “People have come from far and wide, not approach to supporting people with mental “I’ve really suffered for just Greenwich but from Kent, Essex and health problems: it works by providing a all over London to get help and support real working environment, and organising from the MHA Trust. However, we are social groups, including a weekly drop-in. my art – now it’s your turn.” Below : Tom, the fire-eater It also runs arts and crafts activities and a PHOTOS : sustainable gardening group, and has an oger McGough, the popular poet from audience eating out of his hand. KEN & open door policy to anyone who wants RLiverpool, played a blinder at Well done Mycenae House – and well BEN BROWN help. Last Saturday’s event brought home Mycenae House in December, as he done Mark Johnson-Brown, our very own & DAN performed his poems in front of an local impresario! @DANIEL the important contribution of MHAT to our LDN local community. enthralled audience, his poems merging Roger McGough (in a cap) with the MHAT is a not-for-profit Social Enterprise seemlessly with music from LiTTLE musicians in The LiTTLe MACHiNe charitable number: 8803428 at 15 Delacourt MACHiNe, with Steve Road SE3 8XA. Telephone: 0207 564 3087 Halliwell on keyboard, bass and mandolin, Chris Hardy on lead Minnie Diamond strutting her stuff guitar, and Walter Wray on acoustic guitar and banjolele. As you saw Roger interact with his audience – one moment wonderfully funny, the next very poignant, even moving – you could not believe that this man, a legend in his own life - time, is now in his eighties. And whether delivering classics like Ozymandias , or The Lake Isle of Inisfree , or his own witty and highly personal poems, Roger McGough had his PHOTO: Mark Johnson-Brown Westcombe News February 2018 3 FEATURES St Alfege’s Church wins Lottery bid Events Launches the Big Half

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t Alfege Church in Greenwich has at this award. I would like to thank Finish received a grant of £1,836,800 from everyone who has made this possible.” S 13 the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its Explaining the importance of the HLF proposed “Heart of Greenwich, Place and support, Stuart Hobley, Head of HLF People” project. London, said: “The Heart of Greenwich Thanks to National Lottery players, project will see Hawksmoor’s building ondon Marathon Events has announced of Southwark, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets and the project aims to reinforce the church’s restored and the heritage of this well- plans for The Big Half, a unique new Greenwich. Participants will be able to run in position as a heritage asset at the heart of loved church brought to a wider L annual mass participation event, which will teams of four, each person will run one leg of Greenwich, and to reveal and interpret audience. It is great that this gift from take place in London on Sunday 4th March The Big Relay – over distances ranging up to our hidden spaces and heritage for National Lottery players will support this 2018. five miles. visitors, and the local community. well-loved historic building.” The Big Half is more than just an event: it • The Big Festival: a celebration of London’s Vital repairs to the fabric are planned, is a campaign. This unique event will demon - diverse culture, food and music which will bringing to light the splendid work of If you would like to find out more or strate how sport and the community can get take place throughout the day in Greenwich Nicholas Hawksmoor, and improving visit St Alfege Church, and have a together to inspire social change, create social Park. facilities. hidden spaces tour please contact cohesion and improve health and well being. The route map can be seen above. Working with the University of [email protected]. Please mark Its guiding principle is to be “Truly Global The Big Half aims to attract people of all Greenwich, the Royal Borough of for the attention of Wendy Foreman, yet Uniquely Local”. The Big Half will be ages and all backgrounds and to inspire them Greenwich and schools, students will or telephone Wendy on 07773 521 906 much more than a mass participation running to take part in an event, centred on running. gain practical experience. Volunteer St Alfege Church, Greenwich event with the world’s best athletes and Working in partnership with Sported, the Heritage Ambassadors will be trained to Church Street,Greenwich, SE10 9BJ thousands of mass runners. It will be a street sports development charity, London Marathon help provide a programme of activities. party of epic proportions and it aims to Events will engage with local communities at This will strengthen the Church’s role Fact File: inspire participation from a variety of socio- grassroots level, in a way that has never been as a resource for future generations. As St Alfege Church is a Grade 1 listed economic groups, faiths, ages, ethnicities. It done before. The event will be accessible, custodian of the emerging story of the building, the first church built under will thus become the first sports event whose affordable and fun. It will celebrate London’s place, St Alfege’s holds the remains of the Fifty New Churches Act of 1711. It participants truly represent London’s diverse diverse communities in a way that no other significant figures in British history, and was the first complete church project population. sports event has done before. plays an important role in the Maritime undertaken by Nicholas Hawksmoor, The programme features: A total of 7,500 places are reserved for Greenwich World Heritage Site. pupil of Wren and one of England’s • The Big Half: a half marathon starting at community groups from the four host The Vicar, Chris Moody, commented: most significant and architects. The Tower Bridge and finishing in Greenwich, boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Southwark, “This has been a culmination of years of present building was constructed between 1712 and 1718, and passing through Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham and Greenwich who will be able to planning and we are absolutely delighted is one of the key buildings within Lewisham and Greenwich. get entries at just £10 each through their local the Greenwich World Heritage Site. • The Little Half: a relay and other events schools, faith institutions, sports groups and SPECTRUM Its patron saint was murdered on over different distances of The Big Half other community groups. the site of the church by Viking course for participants of all abilities and Alternatively, you can apply to Painters & Decorators raiders, just over 1,000 years ago, and ages. [email protected] Interior/Exterior there has been a place of Christian • The Big Relay: this will be exclusively open Come and join the party on 4 March 2018 No job too Small worship on the site ever since. to community groups from the host boroughs and enter now on www.thebighalf.co.uk Clean and Reliable Henry VIII was baptised in the Free Estimates church. His court composer Thomas 30 Years Experience Tallis, “the father of English church music” was its organist. He and Capt. Walter Stone VC 0208 853 2759 or General James Wolfe are buried here 0795 0815412 alongside other figures of local and cting Captain Walter Napleton Stone was national importance. Aborn in Blackheath, the tenth son of The memorial Edward Stone, a solicitor. His family lived on in Lewisham; Blackheath Hill, and later moved to Vanbrugh there is also Park. a memorial in He attended Pembroke College, Cambridge Greenwich before dropping out after five terms. In the Cemetery First World War he served in the 3rd Battalion valuable information until the wire was cut by of the Royal Fusiliers on the Western Front., his orders. and was awarded a posthumous VC. A plaque The rearguard was eventually surrounded and at the Lewisham War Memorial was cut to pieces, and Capt. Stone was seen unveiled at a ceremony on 30th. fighting to the last till he was shot November. His citation in the through the head. The extraordinary London Gazette 12 - almost coolness of this heroic officer and the exactly a hundred years ago accuracy of his information enabled - February 1918 reads: dispositions to be made just in time to For most conspicuous save the line and avert disaster. bravery when in command of There is a memorial to Captain a company in an isolated Stone in , near position 1,000 yards in front of the graves of his family. His actual the main line, and overlooking the grave has never been found and he is enemy's position. He observed the enemy commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial to massing for an attack, and afforded invaluable the Missing. But there is a mystery: he is also information to battalion headquarters. He was commemorated on a memorial in Shrewsbury, ordered to withdraw his company, leaving a even though he has no known link with rearguard to cover the withdrawal. The attack developing with unexpected speed, Capt. Stone Shropshire. sent three platoons back and remained with the Readers may now be asking: so where does rearguard himself. He stood on the parapet with he belong? Greenwich, Lewisham – or the telephone under a tremendous bombardment Shropshire? The answer, perhaps, is that he observing the enemy and continuing to send back belongs to history.

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Arts tHe WestcoMBe societY MYCENAE HOUSE: MEN & WOMEN IN SHEDS GREENWICH DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS Sat 17th February Members' & Helpers' Party SOCIETY King William Court, University of (evening, main hall, Mycenae House) Men In Sheds Every Wednesday 1pm-3.30pm Greenwich 12th Feb 2018: 18th Century Sevres from 7 Feb 2018 until Easter A project for men 50+ and 19th Century Minton Porcelains - Ann Sat 31st March - Easter Egg Hunt (gardens, to meet in a friendly workshop environment. You Haworth Visitors please may pay on the door 2.00-4.00pm, plus use of toilets; bar open don't have to be an expert woodworker, you simply THE ARTS SOCIETY BLACKHEATH (formerly Sat 14April Queen Elizabeth's Birthday Tea need an interest; we will help you with the rest. BDFAS) 22nd Feb. David Phillips Income and Friday, May 11th AGM "This has given me a new lease of life" Inspiration: Secrets of the Masters All meetings are Sat June 30th Summer Picnic Cost: £1.00 per day inc tea & biscuits. email: on the 4th Thursday of each month (Except AUGUST Fri 28th September - MacMillan Coffee [email protected] & DECEMBER) , and start at 2 p.m. with tea and Morning www.meninshedsageukbg.org.uk coffee, and lectures at 2.30. Our lecture venue is St PLUS Fri 16th November - Quiz 7.30-10.30pm Mary's Church Hall, Cresswell Park, Blackheath Women In Sheds Every Wednesday 10.30am-1pm Printing in Blackheath Visitors welcome, please pay on the door. Main Hall, Mycenae House from 7 Feb 2018 until Easter "Why can't women join since 1978 UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH GALLERIES We needs more volunteers to help out at Men In Sheds" As a response to numerous requests From your ideas or Artwork Stephen Lawrence Gallery Unt il 16th Feb. this trial of Women In Sheds aims to help women 50+ community events being planned we can print at a The Performativity of Painting For information for 2018. Interested? Please ring Joanne to meet and learn or share skills, help the community visit greenwichunigalleries.co.uk or just have a chat over a cup of tea. reasonable cost: THE GREENWICH GALLERY, on 07709 571777. Cost: £1 per day including Tea & Biscuits. • Business cards Peyton Place, Greenwich, London SE10 8RS Further details: 020 8294 3012 / • Invoices • Letterheads NICK RAYNSFORD ON WATER coMMunitY We are also still running our friendly drop in cafe for • Books • Brochures 1st - 18th Feb. 9.30-5.30 weekdays. 12 - 4.00pm seniors 1-4pm every Thursday (except week of 26th • Forms • Invites Weekends. Exhibition of photographs at The Feb) - we are busy knitting scarves & hats for our • Wedding StationAry Greenwich Gallery www.thegreenwichgallery.com Tues. 27th Feb 1.30pm TEA DANCES 2018 local community. We need donated wool to be BLACKHEATH HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS GREAT HALL, BLACKHEATH HALLS dropped into Mycenae House. 1a Lizban st In January, Farrow & Ball Blackheath hosted their Come and enjoy a magical afternoon on the dance blackheath, London se3 8ss first art exhibition 'SE3: Surfaces and Structures' to floor of our beautiful Great Hall. £6.00 Music showcase work from Blackheath High School that was BLACKHEATH & GREENWICH WOMEN’S tel: 020 8853 2268 created using paints and materials donated by Farrow INSTITUTE Meets first Wednesday of every month, BLACKHEATH HALLS 23, Lee Road SE3 9RQ email: [email protected] and Ball. “Outstanding work” doors open at 7.00pm for 7.30pm at Sunfields 0208 463 0100 www.trinitylaban.ac.uk www.trojanpress.com Methodist Church on Old Dover Road BEATS IN THE BAR 7.30pm on: Feb. 6th & 7th BcLHAiClKdHrEeAnT H& HFAALMLiSl Y23, Lee Rd. Blackheath GREENWICH UNION PUB (MEANTIME) March 6th, 13th, 20th 27th & 28th. SE3 9RQ 0208 463 0100 www.trinitylaban.ac.uk READING GROUP Local reading group- Mon 5th Feb. 1.10pm REFLECTIONS ON WAR & Sat 3rd Feb. 2.00pm THE PRINCESS & THE first Wed. of each month. Read –Discuss –Share food PEACE Fleur Barron soprano & Maya Irga gala SUFRAGETTE by Holly Webb £8.50 Age 8-12yrs. at members homes. Contact: Barbara Ward piano perform Schumann, Schubert, Janacek, SAT 10 Feb.11.00am & 3.00 pm [email protected] 07960 107578 Free Debussy Ives etc. FREE, donations r. G. Austin THREE LITTLE PIGS & GOLDILOCKS | BLACKHEATH BRIDGE CLUB duplicate sessions Sat 17th Feb 8.00pm EMILY ASKEW BAND (Established 1963 FAIRY TALE DOUBLE BILL Theatre of in Mycenae House Mon & Thurs 7.15pm and on Wed A thrilling collaboration where Medieval and Folk Heating Engineers, Widdershins present these two much loved fairy at 1.15pm. Newcomers welcome! On your own? music world's collide £15.00 Property Maintenance, stories in one production £8.50 Ages 3+ Hosts available to play with Mondays & most Mon. 19th. Feb. MUSIC APPRECIATION WITH Sat 24th Feb. 3.00pm & 4.30pm Electrics, Painting, GAS Thursdays. Tel. Ron 0208 319 1312 MATTHEW TAYLOR 10.00am on Mondays SAFE MARK THOMPSON'S SPECTACULAR www.charltonhouse Beethoven's Chamber Music - 10 week course. Decorating, Plumbing, SCIENCE SHOW Think science is boring? Think 0208 -856 -3001 Mulberry Tea Rooms £96 (Ten weeks) £11.00 single lecture Central Heating, again; this is science like you have never seen before. Lunchtime concert every Friday 1.00pm – 2.00pm Mon 26th Feb. 7.30pm THE SOLOISTS’ Tickets: £12.50 adults | £10 children SHERINGTON CHILDREN’S CENTRE, COMPETITION FINAL Trinity Laban’s most Shower and Bathroom Specialists GREENWICH THEATRE Tel. 0208 – 3053140 - 14, Sherington Road SE7 prestigious competition FREE but ticketed. Sun. 4th Feb. 7.30pm MISTER BUFFO Dario 2A Hassendean Rd, Blackheath SE3 8TS 7JW DAD’S STAY AND PLAY session every Fri. 2nd March 6.00pm TRINITY LABAN SYM - Telephone: 0208 858 7359 Foe’s hilarious take on the Bible . Ages 14+ PHONY ORCHESTRA & the BOURNEMOUTH Wednesday, 1.00pm -2.30pm –free drop in Sherington [email protected] Tickets: £13.50 | £11.00 Children’s Centre. 2nd Saturday of the month SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA perform Sympony No Fri 9th Feb. 1.00 and 6.00pm BOYS DON’T 10,00am -11.30am free brunch/arts and craf t. For 3 by Mendelssohn FREE but ticketed Who picks up the pieces when boys hide their more degtails contact [email protected] Sun. 4th March 6.30 pm BLACKHEATH HALLS feelings? £13.50 | £8.50 Ages 8 - 12 ST ALFEGES CHURCH , GREENWICH ORCHESTRA perform Tchaikovsky (Swan Lake Sat 10th Feb. 12, 2 and 3.30 pm Classic folk tale Wed 14th Feb. 10.30am Tercentenary celebrations of excerpts) & Brahms’ Piano Concerto No 1 - soloist with a twist: THE ENORMOUS TURNIP the Dedication of Hawksmoor's historic hurch build - LEIGH O’HARA in his farewell performance. to Ages 3 - 8. Tickets £11 | 8.50 ing in 1718. mark his departure after 10 years as Musical Director Sun 11th Feb. A NECKLACE OF RAINDROPS WESTCOMBE WOODLANDS FREE but ticketed Moonlit magic and mayhem. including hand-crafted Next volunteer days Sun 4th Feb, Sat 3rd March shadow puppets Ages 5+ £11 | 8.50 spoKen Word Mon 12th Feb. 11, 1 and 3.00pm LEAF FRIENDS OF GREENWICH PARK Life story of a leaf £11 | £8.50 Ages 0 - 3 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY SOCIETY Sat. 24th. Feb. - 1.00pm to 3.00pm 20th Feb. 7.30pm Michael Delap on Unlocking Tues 13th Feb. 12.00 & 3.00 pm THE GINGER - Drop In at the Wildlife Centre BREAD MAN £!1 | £8.50 Ages 3+ Creek: industrial and domestic development in the Wed 14th Feb. 11, 1 and 3.00pm GLISTEN 19th century at The Old Bakehouse, Age Exchange. Wed. 7th March - 7.30pm for 8pm BLACKHEATH SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY Interactive performance for babies and grown-ups The Friends Annual Lecture 2018 at the King Tickets £11 | £8.50 Ages 0-18 months Fri. Feb. 16th 7.45 The Cassini Legacy and JUICE William Building, RNC, : Dr Greg Hunt, Imperial College in Mycenae House. Wed 14th Feb 2.30 & 7.30 pm PANDORA’S BO X Our World Heritage: A UK and International IN-WORDS West Greenwich Library SE10 8NN Spellbinding new play with dramatic story telling Perspective by PETER MARSDEN played by a full cast. £13.50 &| ££11 Children £8.50 Tues. Feb 13th 7.00 for 7.30 pm Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site Fri 16th Feb. 2.00 pm HOOT OWL Songs, pup - JANE GRANT & ANN DINGSDALE present Learning is fun pets, £13.50 Concs. £11.00 Children £8.50 Ages 3+ Co-ordinator Greenwich Tickets £10 incl. a "Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere - the Birth of the Sat 17th Feb. 11.00am & 2.00pm TOM THUMB glass of wine from: Friends of Greenwich Park, Women's Suffrage Movement in Greenwich and St Olave’s is a Prep School in Tickets £11.00 | £8.50 Ages 3+ 52 Greenwich Park Street, SE10 9LT. Blackheath". Free and unmissable! New for boys and girls Tel: 020 8853 2150. Pl. include an sae . Visit www.in-words.co.uk for more information. aged 3-11 years tHeAtre THE GREENWICH THEATRE, Crooms Hill, BreAKinG BArriers: BlAcKHeAtH HAlls ! Broad, child-centred curriculum London SE10 8ES Box Office: 8858 7755 celeBrAte 100 YeArs oF votes For WoMen ! Excellent results in the 11+ Sat Feb.3rd 7.30 TRUMPAGEDDON Unmissable selection BOX OFFICE 8463 0100 Multi-buy Discounts available “rally”! Maybe truth is even stranger than this satire. ! Clubs, outings and residential Does that make it fake satire? Tickets: £16 | £13.50 Fri. 2nd Feb. 6.46pm WOMEN & THE ORCHESTRA Mon 5th- Tues. 6th Feb. KING LEAR RETOLD Talk by Dr Sophie Fuller £10.00 trips Acclaimed at the Hay Festival, Debs Newbold tells 8.00pm HARRIET HARMAN on A Women’s Work £10.00 ! Excellent pastoral care the harrowing story. £16.00 | £13.50 Sat 3rd Feb. MAKE MORE NOISE Suffragettes in Silent Film £10.00 | ! Small classes Wed. 7th Feb. Debs again, in LOST IN BLUE: £8.00 concs. ! Specialist staff for PE, IT,Music, 4.00pm SUFFRAGETTE: Mothers Daughters & Rebels performance story-telling at its best £16.00 | £13.50 French and Drama SPECIAL offer if you book both of Deb’s shows Cert 12A Film with Carey Mulligan £10.00 | £8.00 concs. Mon19th - Wed 21st Feb. HANNA by Sam Potter 6.00pm A MAN’S WORLD? Panel discussion £10.00 8.00pm WOMEN ! Sibling fee reduction What happens when it turns out your daughter isn’t IN MUSIC Ayanna Witter-Johnson ! Before and after school care your daughter? £16.00 | £13.50 Sun 4th Feb. 11.30 am & 5.30pm DEEDS NOT WORDS About the Great Sun 25th Feb. 7.30 Dan Cruikshank on 100 Suffragette Rally in 1908 in Hyde Park £5.00 Te l : 020 8294 8930 BUILDINGS AROUND THE WORLD £16 £13.50 2.00pm DIANE ATKINSON on the Remarkable Lives www.stolaves.org.uk Tues 27th Feb. 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MYcenAe House live events: FeB./MArcH 2018 JOHN DANN FURNITUREMAKER - EST. 1984 Thurs 8th Feb 4pm - Bach To Baby. Classical Concert. £10 Is education happening? Fri 9th Feb 8pm - JazzNights. Candle-lit Live Jazz music event hosted by Dave Silk. £10. High quality bespoke fitted and Fri 16th Feb 7.30pm - Global Fusion Music & Arts. A musical Yes. But not with the intensity needed today. Schooling is stuck in a freestanding furniture celebration for Chinese New Year - “The Year of the Dog” £6. rut which seemed to make sense in the 1980s, but now everything is made to your requirements. Fri 23rd Feb 7pm - Nick Harper. He is "Dylan for the iPod twenty times more complicated, and the system is not responding. Repair and restoration work generation" said Guitarist Magazine. £14.50. Fri 2nd Mar 7.30pm - Protein Dance's May Contain Food, May Parents need to help their children – using the internet – to see the also undertaken. Contain You. Digest a performance of dance, theatre and song big picture in every area of the curriculum. This easily gets lost that unfolds around you. Ages 12+ £10 in the constant pressure to cram for exams. E-mail: [email protected] Wed 7th Mar 7.30pm - Rhodri Miles in Dylan Thomas' Clown In Children need to work, and seek help, to really understand Website: johndannfurniture.co.uk The Moon. A dramatic portrait of the poet's chaotic, frequently hilarious, and all too brief life. £10 their topics, not simply swallow them to get by. Tel.0208 852 3047 or 07837 859763 For further information visit www.mycenaehouse.co.uk The P E R Group’s website: www.perprospero.co.uk

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! 6 Westcombe News February 2018 Planning applications can be viewed in the library, or at the Woolwich Library on the lower ground floor of the Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington St. They may also be viewed on ENVIRONMENT www. greenwich.gov.uk/planning Calling all drivers: the Rules Greenwich Conservation Group: The future? ANNE ROBBINS are a-Changing ... EMILY NORTON he Westcombe Society covers three the Olympics in Greenwich Park, the Cutty ir pollution is one of the most (apart from those whose vehicles fall in the Tconservation areas – Westcombe Park, Sark development, and refurbishing of Asignificant challenges facing London, 'disabled' or 'disabled passenger vehicles' Blackheath, and Greenwich. To some, the Greenwich Market. GCG was closely affecting the health of all Londoners, tax class and are exempt from rules on conservation areas might seem involved in recent work by Greenwich to transport being the biggest source of vehicle tax). Currently no ‘sunset’ period restrictive. update its guidance in its Residential damaging emissions. is proposed for residents so the daily However, they can also be a real help in Extensions, Basements and Conversions The recently introduced T-charge fol - charges would start for everyone affected preserving and protecting the character of Guidance document. lowed by the even tighter ULEZ restric - in October 2021. local buildings and of the area as a whole, The GCG also looks at planning tions coming into operation in April 2019 That’s less than four years from now . . . and the Westcombe Society works hard to applications for individual buildings, for aims to significantly reduce air pollution ensure this is the case. One element is to instance to maintain appropriate propor - in Central London. The consultation coordinate with other amenity societies, tions in loft conversions. GCG also speaks The next stage in the Mayor’s ambitious By now all households should have and this function has been facilitated with at public hearings of the Planning project to tackle air pollution is an exten - received a letter from Transport for the enormous help of the Greenwich Committee and Board. Its comments are sion of the ULEZ restrictions to London London consulting about the proposals. Conservation Group [GCG]. taken seriously by council planners and suburbs including Greenwich. The first The consultation runs until 28 February It’s now more than 50 years since the ward councillors, and help strengthen proposed extension in October 2020 would 2018 and more information can be found at Civic Amenities Act, 1965, promoted the planning statements made by amenity bring in charges for polluting heavy tfl.gov.uk/airquality-consulation. For those idea of conservation areas and asked local groups such as the Westcombe Society. vehicles, anytime, anywhere in London. who don’t have internet access please ask authorities to set up appraisal committees Philip Binns, GCG’s chair, has been part friends, neighbours or the library to help to designate them, identifying them by of the group since late 1977, representing The new proposals you access it. Alternatively you can write their special features or characteristics. the Blackheath Society. He’s lived in In October 2021 it is proposed that ALL to FREEPOST TFL CONSULTATIONS. In our case, the late Victorian and Blackheath since 1965. He was an polluting vehicles, including private cars, The Westcombe Society Environment Edwardian architecture, mature trees, and architect until 1980 when he joined the vans and motorcycles pay a daily charge. Committee will be responding but would uncrowded streetscapes are notable. In Government Property Services Agency. Charges would affect all who drive older like to include the opinions of residents. addition, Blackheath and Greenwich have Most of his experience there was with vehicles 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, The following is a list of questions we are many older buildings, including some fine housing, schools, offices, and government 365 days a year, up to but not including, asking ourselves, residents may have oth - 18th century architecture, to protect. But buildings, but he spent his last two years the North and South Circulars. This will ers to suggest: the borough of Greenwich disbanded its in the Museums and Galleries Division, affect everyone who lives in or visits • Are the proposals a good idea in appraisal committee in the late 1970s. advising on museum displays. Westcombe Park. principle? Philip’s work as chair of the GCG has Hopefully we will all benefit from • What about the boundaries? Should the Why the GCG started been invaluable: his ability to translate the cleaner air, but those who own petrol cars area be smaller or should restrictions on So how does the local authority protect its group’s comments into precise detailed and small vans registered before 2006 all vehicles be extended to cover the conservation areas? Part of the answer is advice for the council planners and elected (which do not meet Euro 4 standards), or whole of London? the Greenwich Conservation Group. GCG members has meant that GCG’s work is diesel cars and small vans registered before • Is the proposed charging structure fair? was founded with several members of the taken seriously by the Council. September 2015 (which do not meet Euro Do the proposed charges unfairly appraisal committee, bringing together 6 standards), will either have to replace penalise those with older vehicles who ward councillors and local amenity groups Under threat their vehicles before October 2021 or pay a only drive short distances*compared to to meet regularly, discuss, and comment on Yet GCG is under threat at the moment. daily charge of £12.50 whenever they are others? Do the proposed charges unfairly proposals. It has never covered Eltham, While the forum is respected and has some used. (Applicable registration dates vary penalise those who may not be able to but it did, and still does, include support from the council, it has no official slightly.). afford to replace their vehicle – or Westcombe Park, Blackheath, Charlton, standing, and neither council officers nor This includes disabled badge holders indeed to afford a new enough vehicle at Woolwich, and Greenwich. elected members are on the committee. all? Should those who bring polluting The group meets monthly at Woolwich And its chair, Philip, is standing down after Silvertown: yet vehicles in from outside London pay Town Hall to share views on planning 20 years of service. As yet, no one has more than those who live in London?! applications, some of them very major stepped forward to take on that role. Please let us have your views so we can indeed. Its members include architects, There are other challenges, too. another delay reflect them in our response to TfL. Note planning consultants, archaeologists, and Greenwich has moved away from paper also that TfL are keen to point out that the untrained. All have a strong interest in copies of plans, but new technology can he Government has announced a using alternative means of transport are local building conservation. make it difficult to compare different Tfurther delay in its decision on TfL’s also the best ways to cut these dangerous Architects can play a major role. The elements of a planning application, for proposed Silvertown Tunnel in order to emissions. Contact the WS Environment Blackheath Society has two of them on its instance existing and proposed elevations, assess the impact on the environment and Committee at the address given on page 2. planning committee, and can call on local side by side. Some development plans are air quality. The final decision is to be *Note: All petrol and diesel vehicles practising architects for unofficial advice very complex, and developers can change announced in May. Promises, promises.... pollute the air with their emissions. and comments. The Greenwich Society them, increasing the numbers of structures, Fed up with traffic congestion and What varies is the level of emissions. had until recently the former Chief Planner or decreasing the number of affordable or delays, supporters of the proposal are des - Therefore it can be argued that emissions for Greenwich, John Franklin, and has social housing units. And the GCG needs perate for an early decision. Opponents are are mileage-related and that charges several local professionals on its planning to maintain a coherent voice, so that its angry that the alternatives – crossings in should be based on mileage driven as committee. comments continue to carry weight. and/or Belvedere, were well as the level of emissions. The Westcombe Society Environment The Westcombe Society very much turned down by the Mayor of London. Commi ttee in cludes a former planning wants the GCG to continue. We have officer. Its GCG representation, though, is particular reason to be grateful for its carried out by non-professionals. influence, because we cover more than one conservation area, and we thank Philip Busier than ever whole-heartedly for his service. Our chair The intensification of development in the will be working with the Greenwich Short-term Care* borough since the Millennium has meant Society and the other groups to find a way that GCG has been very busy. Members to carry the GCG forward. And the At Leah Lodge and Rectory Court have reviewed and commented on draft Westcombe Society would be very glad to Care Homes in Blackheath, London Masterplans, and the proposals for hear from local people with planning and , Woolwich Arsenal, architectural backgrounds, who might want , Kidbrooke, and the to join our Environment Committee, to Charlton Retail Park. help maintain the local character that helps Heritage issues have come up, including make this area such a pleasant place.

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