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ocal people are beginning to ask who housing.’ Developers claim that new Lare calling the shots when it comes to building projects become "non-viable" if new developments in . "too many" social or affordable units are The controversial plan to build a huge embodied in the development. tower overshadowing the Greenwich Greenwich claims to have a good record Ecology Park on the peninsua is due to be on affordable housing, but critics point out submitted to the Council in July this year. that ‘affordable’ is a relative term: claims The park is home to 60 species of birds that many ‘affordable’ units are snapped up and bees, as well as dragonflies and butter - by foreign buyers for investment purposes flies, and the plan is strongly opposed by cannot be verified. PHOTO: Neville Grant the Friends of Greenwich Ecology Park In another case, Meyer Homes wants to (FGEP). Labour’s own councillors in build a huge 27 storey tower in General hat is to be done with the former Today it stands empty except for a few Peninsula Ward are also against the plan. Gordon Square in Town Centre. WGreenwich Town hall, which occu - squatters. Now Alan Watkins of the The Ecology Park was created using After strong local opposition, Council pies a site on the corner of Greenwich Greenwich Society has come up with a £10million of public money as part of a officers recommended that the application High Road and Royal Hill? A Grade II new plan: he points out that Greenwich major regeneration project, and park users be turned down – but the councillors listed building built in 1939, it has until doesn’t have a town museum. Although claim that the development will over- were forced to delay their decision after this year been used by the Greenwich Greenwich enjoys more magnificent shadow the park and ruin it. Meyer Homes threatened legal action, in Dance Agency. buildings than most other London bor - The Council gave outline permission effect putting the frighteners on. What has been described as the elegant oughs, it lacks a museum of Greenwich to build the 20 storey tower, but such was John Edwards, spokesman for Speak clock tower is the most prominent feature town itself – a people’s history of the area. the opposition that the developer reduced it Out Woolwich (SOW), said that this was a of this Art Deco building. Apparently The Tourist Information Centre does a to 13 storeys. The developer, Greenwich “cynical ploy by Meyer Homes to give influenced by the work of the Dutch fine job, but it cannot tell the whole story. Millenium Village Ltd (GMVL) revised them more time to decide how to push this architect W. M. Dudok, Pevsner described The exhibitions at The Royal Greenwich the plans, asserting that it was “important through for the sake of profit and against it as “... the only town hall of any London Heritage Centre in Woolwich, cover to balance the loss of new homes with the the wishes of local people.” borough to represent the style of our time Woolwich, but not Greenwich. impact on the ecology park.” Council officers gave eight reasons for adequately.” The Borough Halls could house a FGEP are still very worried about the rejecting the application, including The reinforced concrete building is clad permanent display, utilising the Council’s impact the development will have on the * an excessive number of one- and two- in brick and features flat roofs. The WN amazing collection of paintings, prints and ecology park – and are concerned that bedroom units has been unable to find anyone who has artefacts, emphasising the people’s history, additional plans for two more towers have * the excessive height of the building scaled the tower. The Listed Buildings as well as the industrial and technological not been up for consultation. * the shadow cast over adjoining areas website says that “Interior: much altered in developments. The display would provide Of the 66 units in the 13- storey tower, Local residents are now hoping that the 1972-4, when floors inserted in council an interpretation of Greenwich – the only four would be “affordable”. A Council will stick to its guns. chamber area; entrance foyer with marble people and the town – from pre-history to recurring feature of new developments in panels to walls and imperial staircase; the present day. It could also include a cafe Greenwich is the small number of units See also page 7: Planning system: “not fit assembly hall with round lights over pan - and bookshop, children’s educational that are genuinely affordable, or ‘social for purpose” elled dado and plain balcony, medieval- facilities, and a space for lectures, music inspired mural by Suddaby and Fryer.” and film screenings, as well as other visitor FACT FILE: SOME BOROUGHS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTH ERS . . . Others are less polite about the building: facilities. some regard it as the ugliest building in Alan’s proposal has widespread support, AFFORDABILITY Greenwich town. But it represents an and has been forwarded to Greenwich An affordable unit is one available for 80% of the market price. According to the important page in Greenwich’s history. . Council. GLA’s official DataStore, Greenwich has one of the best records in London on affordable homes: the trouble is very few Londoners can afford them . . . The Thames Path’s Missing Link SOCIAL HOUSING 23,250 new dwellings were completed in London in 2016/17 of which only 5,360 he 'Missing Link' on the Thames Path Cllr Denise Scott-McDonald, Cabinet (23%) are social housing units. In Greenwich in 2016/17: Tas it weaves through Royal Greenwich Member for Air Quality, Public Realm and * 1,560 dwellings were completed was officially opened on 20th June. Transport said: “This is a project that I * Only 130 were completed by the Council or by Housing Associations Until June, a break in the Thames Path know is close to the hearts of local people. * Only 8.3% of completions were some form of social housing at Charlton has meant that cyclists and “This has removed the last barrier on the * Only six other London boroughs built less social housing than Greenwich. walkers were diverted inland onto the busy path from to Greenwich.” Source: Table 253 Housebuilding: permanent dwellings started and completed, by tenure Woolwich Road. Royal Greenwich has the longest and district, 2016-17; Department for Communities and Local Government At the opening, a number of local continuous waterfront of any London Last year £24 billion was spent on housing benefit; much of this money was paid to walkers and cyclists attended, to celebrate borough. The Thames Path runs alongside private landlords. There must be better ways of spending this money! being the first people to use the new the river and for the most part is free of connection. traffic. < < Newsbriefs > >

Blackheath Fireworks Capital Quay recently unveiled in Parliament Square. At the rebuilding of the church by Nicholas “ Remember, remember In response to a Parliamentary question from end of the programme, local author Jane Grant Hawksmoor. Included in the concert was one of the Fifth of November. local MP Matt Pennycook, Housing Secretary displayed a brooch awarded to Millicent in 1913 Jonathan Dove’s choral works. Gunpowder Treason and – STOP James Brokenshire stated that the developer in recognition of her work in obtaining the Oh for the wings of a dove . . . That is the danger: fireworks night on the heath behind Greenwich’s New Capital Quay develop - women’s vote. The url is: https:// Spectators were entranced by artist Duke Riley’s in November, attended by more than 80,000 ment should be paying for its flammable www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQXgkM-typo epic outdoor work in June: 1500 trained people, may have been the last to be held: cladding to be replaced. This will be a relief to pigeons, released from their purpose-built coop, Lewisham Council, which funds the event, has New Capital Quay’s 2,000 residents. Hervey Road soared into the night-sky above the River said the future may be in jeopardy for financial Funding of an additional £100,000 from the Thames in a spectacle of unprecedented scale reasons, and is asking for donations from local Pioneering women London Marathon Charitable Trust has been and beauty. residents and businesses. The council faces a A special edition of the Antique Roadshow on awarded to carry out works to the playing fields Each pigeon wore a tiny LED light, and as the 63% cut in government funding by 2020. “Pioneering Women” was shown on the BBC at Hervey Road, part of plans by the Royal birds soared and swooped over Greenwich, they Greenwich Council has made a small TV on June 10th. The programme celebrated Borough of Greenwich to build a new pavilion formed an ever-changing pattern of great beauty. contribution to the costs. Donations may be the victories of the huge range of pioneering and bring improved local sports facilities to the Riley’s world-class installation was recreated made at Age Exchange in Blackheath Village. women who have shaped our nation. It featured area. for London’s historical military location of among others war correspondent Clare Thamesmead. Its purpose was to pay beautiful Correction Hollingworth, the Dagenham Equal Pay St Alfeges 300 homage to some of the First World War’s Cllr David Gardner is Deputy Leader of the pioneers,Violette Szabo, who died while serving On June 23rd, a Thomas Tallis Society concert unsung heroes who played crucial roles, Council, not “ Leader of Children’s Services for SOE in WW2, Margaret Thatcher, Diane took place to mark the tercentenary of the delivering messages, often flying at night to Greenwich” as stated in June’s WN . Abbott. and Millicent Fawcett, whose statue was rededication of St Alfege’s church after the escape enemy snipers. COMMUNITY Inter-Generation WEST CO MBE N EW S Volunteer Centre Greenwich The VCG has been selected as the Westcombe Book Project at A : ll editoriAl correspondence to Society’s charity of the year for 2018 - 19. neville Grant , Editor The John Roan [email protected] Tel. 020 8858 8489 he Westcombe Society’s Charity of the volunteers and those who work with School Year for 2018/19 is the Volunteer volunteers T ext academic year, starting in All MAteriAl to Be sent to : Centre Greenwich. The centre uses • Promoting good practice around September, the libraries at The John [email protected] volunteering to improve the lives of volunteering N Roan School would like to set up a new individuals and enrich the community, and They offer a signposting service for deadline for the september Inter-Generation Book Project. the Westcombe Society contribution will people in Greenwich wishing to undertake issue: 16th August This would involve setting up times help the centre to continue with this voluntary work through a database of environment editor: Maggie when our students and local older residents valuable work. voluntary opportunities and they offer a can get together to discuss the books that Gravelle The funding will be used to re-accredit range of membership services to not for they enjoyed when they were younger, and sub-editor: Annie Grey one of the centre’s quality marks so that profits organisations These include giving what they enjoy reading now. reporters: The community – that they can continue to deliver mentoring and information, training and advice on We’d then like to create a time capsule, means you! befriending training and services. It will recruiting, managing and good practice in to include some extracts from the books also be used to update and purchase some the best use of volunteers. environMent coMMittee discussed, written recommendations and crucial IT equipment. Volunteering can change people’s lives emily norton All queries and comments, photos etc. The Volunteer Centre Greenwich by giving the skills, confidence and comments to: 020 8853 2756 We are looking for anyone who would [email protected] promotes the value of volunteers and experience needed to progress to a career, be happy to meet with our students to volunteering in the Royal Borough of improve health and wellbeing and reduce emily norton and discuss books and their reading likes and distriBution Greenwich, and ensures equality of access isolation. volunteers. dislikes.. to volunteering for all people. 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It has its for her involvement in the campaign chairman: Marilyn Little Tel. 020 8853 1312 in April 2012 in its present state. It was own playground and outdoor play against a proposal to drive a motorway entirely volunteer-run for the first two equipment suitable for under-fives. The v iews expressed in the Westcombe through the centre of Greenwich, which News are not necessarily those of the years but rapid growth and successful The next plan is to build a log-cabin play led to the formation of the Friends of Westcombe Society or of the Editor. fundraising led to the employment of a space for three to eleven year olds in East Geenwich. We take all reasonable precautions to pro - part-time General Manager to oversee Greenwich Pleasaunce, to add to the The Widow of J A C Platts, Beryl Platts tect the interests of our readers by ensuring administration duties and further expansion existing playground and forest school area. was the mother of Elizabeth and John, and as far as possible the bona fides of our and fundraising. The floor would be a rubber-mulch play had two grandchildren, Olivia and Sarah. advertisers but cannot accept any responsi - The centre still relies heavily on surface for health and safety reasons. bility for them. Any complaints should be eter Lewins. We are sorry to record the addressed to the advertiser. volunteers in many different capacities, The aim is to provide a safe green space Pdeath after a long illness of Dr Peter To access back-numbers (in colour) go to: from playgroup supervision to accounting, for families to enjoy in an environment Lewins who acted as membership www.westcombesociety.org/westcombe-news/ communications and event organisation. free from traffic fumes and congestion. secretary of the Westcome Society for a Westcombe Society’s Blog: As a result, The Bridge has become a The centre always appreciates offers of period. We send Jo and the family our http://westcombe.blogspot.com thriving hub of the community, providing help from individual volunteers and local deepest sympathy. training support for local people who have businesses. argaret Skeates was one of the WANTED! More volunteers to taken a career break and are looking to Mfounder members of the Westcombe distribute the WN – and to help with Society. 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ollowing this issue’s headline about finance social care, the government has those hedges! Fresidential development in Greenwich, allowed councils to raise the community the WN provides here an overview of charge; but this alone does not pay for the he growing season has surely arrived housing developments across London. increasing burden of social care, let alone Tand in some places footpaths and The background: i n an attempt to reduce funding house-building. pavements have become obstructed by public borrowing and expenditure, the Housing Associations were supposed to overhanging hedges and tree branches. government has been applying a massive take up the slack in the housing sector, but The owner or occupier of a property squeeze on local government finances, have been ill-equipped to do so. has a legal responsibility (Highway Act making it increasingly hard to maintain The figures below (for 2016/17) provide 1980 s154) to ensure the 'public highway' local services. Lord Porter estimates that a picture of how different councils have adjacent to a property is not obstructed by by 2020 the funding gap will exceed £5bn. tried to overcome financial and legal vegetation from their property. Equally To alleviate the pressure, and mainly to constraints to improve the housing stock. local authorities have a duty to ensure that public highways and street lights are Many councils felt forced to unobstructed. Total of Dwellings completed % of rely on development compa - So, how about it, Greenwich Council? dwellings in 2016/17 by total nies, but driven by the profit completed Housing Associations Social motice, they have claimed they in 2016/17 & Local Authorities Housing could not afford to build much London affordable or social housing. overall: 23,250 5,360 23.1 New MOT tests changes The particular problem on 1 Croydon 3,670 90 2.5 has been 2 Southwark 2,21 0 470 21.3 not just the high cost of land, rivers should be aware that the MOT defect categories. For example, if your 3 Barnet* 1,980 710 35.9 but the fact that much of the Dtest was revised in May. One of the diesel car puts out any smoke whatsoever, 4 Newham 1,710 420 24 .6 ground was polluted, and changes is the way faults are classified. it won’t pass its MOT examination. 5 Greenwich 1,560 130 8.3 cleaning it up is expensive. They are now to be categorised as being Testers are also required to do thorough 6 T. Hamlets 1,540 450 29.2 The figures for Greenwich 7 Walt. Forest 810 440 54.3 Dangerous, Major and Minor. Minor issues checks of a car’s DPF (Diesel Particulate 8 Wandsworth 760 150 19.7 2015-18 on affordable housing are recorded, and the owner is advised to Filter) to make sure they haven’t been 9 Hackney 740 380 51.4 are among the best in London; get them fixed – but the car will still pass tampered with – or removed entirely. not so for social housing ... 10 Hounslow 720 220 30. 6 its test. These faults will also be added to The guidelines read that: “Any vehicles 11 Brent 690 120 17.4 Undertakings to increase the car’s MOT certificate and online fitted with a DPF should be checked so 12 Lewisham 670 250 37.3 social and genuinely affordable 13 Hillingdon 570 50 8.8 houses by both the mayor of record. that no visible smoke is emitted from the 14 Redbridge 570 50 8.8 London Sadiq Khan, and the Anything resulting in a Dangerous or exhaust during the metered check.” 15 Ealing 500 180 36. 0 Labour Party if or when it gets Major classification will mean an outright Some diesel drivers have been known to 16 Hammers- 470 60 12.8 fail. remove the filter to boost performance and mith & Fulham elected look promising, but face 17 Bromley 460 90 19.6 major funding issues. A Minor issue would be a problem such increase miles-per-gallon, but since it 18 Lambeth 390 80 20.5 Following an initative by as oil leaking from a steering box. regulates the exhaust gases produced by 19 Sutton 380 70 18.4 Sajid Javid in April, the However, this would escalate to a Major if the engine, removal increases pollution. 20 Enfield 370 300 81.1 government is looking into a the leak was so bad as to be dripping. So if a car was fitted with a DPF as 21 Barking & 360 210 58.3 review of the business rates The MOT test sees tougher measures standard, its removal would mean an Dagenham system whereby LGAs would against diesel cars through a variety of new instant MOT fail. 22 Camden 350 60 17.1 retain 75% of locally-collected 23 Bexley 330 110 33.3 24 Westminster 240 140 58.3 business rates. While this may 25 Haringey 230 20 8.7 help balance LGA books, one 26 Islington 220 30 13.6 consequence may be that some 27 Merton 150 10 6.7 local businesses may suffer Gambling: Our children’s 28 Richmond 140 30 21.4 from unsustainable increases as 29 Havering 240 10 7.1 Councils seek to maintain 30 Harrow 130 0 0.0 services by raising revene. future is 31 Kensington 110 30 27.3 And with the likely dip in the & Chelsea 32 Kingston 70 0 0.0 economy as a result of Brexit, 33 The City 10 0 0.0 the horizon looks cloudy. at stake Source: Table 253 Housebuilding: permanent dwellings started and completed, by tenure Happy holidays. and district, 2016-17; Department for Communities and Local Government roblem gambling affects some P430,000 people in Britain. In Girls raise funds for NSPCC 2015-16 there were 230,000 individual sessions on Fixed Odds Betting ournalist and television presenter Dame dominated industry, she wholeheartedly Terminals (FOBTs) in which a user JEsther Rantzen DBE paid tribute to the encouraged the girls not to be afraid to fail lost more than £1000. The losses so fundraising efforts of Blackheath High and that their resilience and perseverance incurred are often by those at the Junior School girls who have raised an to succeed would pay dividends. lower end of the income scale. impressive £6500 for the children’s charity, She said: “Going to an all-girls school This is not just a tragedy for the the NSPCC. was the foundation for my drive and gamblers themselves – and their On a visit to the school on 24th May, enabled me to become a strong female lead families: the Centre for Economic and the ChildLine Founder and NSPCC Trustee at a time when the TV industry was very Business Research (CEBR) think tank congratulated the girls for their efforts male dominated.” reported that problem gambling carries which included a series of fundraising Mrs Sarah Skevington, Head of a huge economic and social cost. This activities across the school including a Blackheath High Junior School, said: “I amounts to £1.5 billion a year because sponsored Maths coding challenge. am very proud of the fundraising efforts of of its impact on employment, mental As well as thanking the girls, Esther our girls. The children have been learning health and financial stability. spoke about her own personal experiences about the vital work of the NSPCC and FOBTs in particular can be addictive. wider efforts to help prevent gambling- over the last 50 years in TV show business. were immediately keen to do their part, For these reasons, many have welcomed related harm. The resources comprise four Reflecting on her success in a male fundraising tirelessly for the charity.”: the government’s decision to reduce the lessons to produce a programme of maximum stake from £100.00 to £2.00. Personal, Social and Health Education But the problem doesn’t just affect (PSHE) provision for 15 year-olds. Has education lost its way? adults: according to an alarming 2016 They encourage pupils to weigh risk, report by the Gambling Commission, a identify manipulative behaviour, manage Government regulatory body, some impulses and help others. They cover a ‘Education’ actually means the induction of youth into the core of the historic classless 450,000 children aged between 11 and 15 range of ‘risky behaviours’, but with culture. This isn’t simple. We need first to de-toxify it by removing ancient strands of are gambling on a weekly basis, gambling as a major case study. imperialism, sexism and racism. We need second to energise it by adding new, enduring Earlier this year, the Demos think tank Policy makers, politicians, and the media stuff – modelling with digital electronics. Many educationalists lean towards the left and in partnership with GambleAware launched were brought together at a launch event to they conflate the historic classless culture with the current Status Quo – which they hate. Demos’ new report Reducing the Odds: An engage with this research project, and dis - The historic classless culture of the UK is about common law, commonsense, and a Education Pilot to Prevent Gambling cuss the future of gambling prevention freedom to think deeply which was stamped out in most other countries. This is needed. Related Harm. education for young people. A society which neglects its core values falls apart. The P E R Group websites: Demos has been piloting educational Needless to say, parents or guardians www.philosophyforeducation.co.uk. www.perprospero.co.uk resources in secondary schools as part of and teachers share crucial roles.

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k Following her memoir of her o o w B ie work with UNICEF in the ev r Demystefying Yugoslav Civil War, local author Stephanie Early Mathematics recalls her years of innocence in post Civil War Spain . . .

Review by VESNA DOMANY HARDY his beautifully written memoir depicts an episode in the Tauthor's life during her teenage years in the 1950's. At this time, Andalusia was suffering the aftermath of the bloody Spanish Civil war (1936-39) and was held in the firm ost of us coped with our tables: In short, mathematics needed to be pro - grip of Franco’s cruel dictatorship. easy-peasy – though purists tected from professional mathematicians: Far away from her family and Mwould complain that we learnt “For the ablest professionals, the lure of friends in her native Dublin, Stephanie them parrot-fashion without understanding the abstract stratosphere has proved well- Allen Early spent two years as an ‘the concept of number.’ nigh irresistible.” But for that notional English language "Miss" in the The concept of number? No time for woman or man in the street, the message household of a sherry-producing, noble For the women of the palacio the only that, as we launched into the basics of they send back to earth is almost unintelli - family in Jerez de la Frontera. activity in which they can participate – arithmetic – adding, subtracting, dividing gible. Ormell argues that the lure of the The author learnt to speak Spanish apart from domestic tasks and caring for and multiplying; with pounds shillings and stratosphere came about mainly as a result during that painfully hard time spent at a children – is within the confines of the pence (remember them?) thrown in for of a new, exotic, fantastic theory of infinity crucial period in her development. The Catholic Church. Survival depends on good (or bad) measure. Long division: developed more than a hundred years ago, conformity to strict Catholic rules. tricky. Equations: help! and professional mathematicians have experience marked her profoundly and was the start of a lifelong association Rebellion becomes inevitable as the Then came what was laughingly called remained under its thrall ever since. girl’s role becomes unsustainable. “applied maths”: “if two men mowed a The result: mathematics has become with Spain and the Hispanic world. The experience remained imprinted The hopeless situation endured by local hundred acre meadow in three hours, how “glorious’ from the point of view of its inhabitants is well illustrated in the many long would it take five men?” Gulp. insiders; but the cost has been a gradual on her memory, so that even sixty years letters written to the young Stephanie by This is where the present reviewer is erosion of support from the general public. later, she has been able to revive in her Spanish friend, Javier, a bull-fighter. coming from, and it was thus with some Arguably, the teaching and learning of detailed fresh tones the tedium of daily trepidation that he picked up this book The maths has never fully recovered from the existence for women in an enclosed While dreaming of escape from the Battle for Infinit y by local author cult of “New Maths” fifty or so (very) odd household in Andalusia. confined conditions of his impossible Christopher Ormell. The title looked years ago, when children as young as five Stephanie gives a non-judgmental existence, he sees his friendship with daunting: what after all does infinity mean were to be introduced to maths via set account of her sojourn, frequently self- this young Irish girl as a possible way to the man (or woman) in the street? theory, binary operations, transformations, ironical, as she narrates from the point of forward – although he sees his role as a But the subheading looked much more groups etc. In those heady days, trendy view of her 16-year-old self. torero as being a kind of metaphor for promising: “Should mathematics be up in mathematicians announced that “2 + 2 no Reading between the lines, one “man/woman reationships”. His letters the clouds, or on the high ground with the longer necessarily equalled 4 ... “ discovers that even coming from the add another dimension to this interesting finest views?” This grabbed the attention The trendies collapsed in the USA by oppressive Catholic Ireland of the De and charming memoir.Will she or won’t of this semi-numerate reader. the end of the sixties; a conference of Valera period, the enclosed and unevent - she succumb to his entreaties? Christopher Ormell is well-known as a mathematicians at the University of ful life in more backward Jerez feels like Highly recommended. former lecturer in mathematics, and chair Nottingham in 1972 saw its death knell in prison to the free-spirited girl. Take me with you when you go is obtainable of the local group Philosophy for the UK. But ever since this period, maths from Waterstones, Amazon, and Troubador, 8 Educational Renewal. In his preface, he has very largely lost its credibility with the Time has been turned back with the Priory Business Park, Wistow Road, Fascist victory, all progress has been states: general public. !! Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics. LE8 0RX “Mathematics enables us to form rational Ormell’s book argues that “ a belated arrested and all freedoms curtailed. Retail price: £7.99 overviews of many things. However, the return to un-intoxicated thinking about ! question arises ‘How high should we go to the purpose, practice and meaning of get these valuable overviews?’” mathematics is urgently required.” He points out that over the last hundred This book is not an easy read: but it is an years, there has been a tendency for pure important read for any teacher of maths, mathematics “to go higher and higher, ever for anyone who aspires to be a professional upward … towards forms of hyper-abstrac - mathematician - – and for anyone who tion which are, from the ordinary person’s appreciates the beauty of mathematics. point of view – unimaginably rarified, The book can be obtained from Chris abstruse and difficult.” Ormell at 3 Ingleside Grove SE3 .

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! 4 Westcombe News July/August 2018 WHAT’S ON BLACKHEATH THE ARTS tHe WestcoMBe societY HALLS OPERA BLACKHEATH ARTS SOCIETY Fri 28th September - MacMillan Coffee 2018 All meetings are on the 4th Thursday of each Morning DIDO and month (EXCEPT AUGUST AND DECEMBER) , Sat 10th November - Quiz 7.30-10.30pm AENEAS and start at 2.00pm with tea and coffee, and Sat 17th November Christmas Bazaar Henry Purcell lectures at 2.30. Our lecture venue is St Mary's Blackheath High School for Girls, Mycenae Church Hall, Cresswell Park, Blackheath. Next Road entrance. Opera’s intergenerational talk: 26th July Anthea Streeter talks on company and Trinity Laban students work THOMAS HEATHERWICK Visitors welcome We need more volunteers to help out with professional opera singers, including THE ARTS SOCIETY GREENWICH German mezzosoprano Idunnu Münch who Our lectures take place in King William Court at at community events being planned the University of Greenwich, on the Old Royal for 2018. Interested? Please ring Joanne makes her London debut as Dido & Marcus Printing in Blackheath Naval College site. Parking in the car park on 07709 571777 Farnsworth as the Trojan hero Aeneas in this since 1978 accessed from Park Row. Next meeting: thrilling and unique production. From your ideas or Artwork 9th July SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK - coMMunitY Mon. 16 July 7.30pm Tues. 17 July 7.30pm we can print at a Rosalind Whyte Visitors welcome Wed. 18 July 6.30pm & 8.30pm reasonable cost: BLACKHEATH & GREENWICH WOMEN’S Fri. 20 July 6.30pm & 8.30pm • Business cards INSTITUTE Meets first Wednesday of every month, at The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford • Invoices • Letterheads cHildren & FAMilY doors open at 7.00pm for 7.30pm at Sunfields Methodist Church on Old Dover Road SE8 4AG £20 | £18 concs | £8 under 12s • Books • Brochures GREENWICH THEATRE CROOMS HILL BLACKHEATH BRIDGE CLUB duplicate sessions • Forms • Invites Wed. 15th - Sun 26th August UK premiere of THE in Mycenae House Mon & Thurs 7.15pm and on Wed BANDSTAND • Wedding Stationary JUNGLE BOOK by Rudyard Kipling. Directed by at 1.15pm. Newcomers welcome. Tuesday evening The Friends of Greenwich Park bring you Free James Haddrell The classic tale with thrilling percus - lessons start anew in September. Tel. 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6 Westcombe News July/August 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 www. green - ENVIRONMENT wich.gov.uk/planning The Storyboards JOHN Planning system: “not fit for on the heath BARTRAM even storyboards depicting the major purpose” Sevents and wildlife on Blackheath have been unveiled in a £30,000 project led by ngland’s planning system is at a the Blackheath Society. E“historically low ebb” and is “less Placed at strategic points around the effective than at any time in the post war Heath, the storyboards give details of the era, with an underfunded and deeply local events which occurred, important demoralised public planning service”. historical characters and, where relevant, The reason: government deregulation. ecological issues and its flora and fauna. The warning comes from our former MP, They provide orientation maps, directing and former housing minister Nick Nick Raynsford readers to the key sites of local interest. PHOTO: Diane Summers Raynsford. He is urging significant Most of the images come from the Henry V on his return to England in changes to the system, arguing that it is Among the report’s ecommendations is Blackheath Society’s photographic archive. October 1415. “no longer capable” of shaping the places the establishment of a statutory definition The first board is located on Royal The boards were sponsored by the people need for long-term well-being. of planning which would regulate Parade near a section of the Heath known Blackheath Society, the Borough of In May, Raynsford presented to the development in order to achieve ‘social, as Washerwoman’s Bottom. Despite cold, Lewisham from the ONBlackheath House of Lords nine provisional recom - economic and cultural wellbeing’. blustery weather at the launch, over 70 Community Fund, the Royal Borough of mendations as part of the interim findings Raynsford’s report also recommends people heard local councillors Kevin Greenwich Blackheath and Westcombe from the Raynsford Review of Planning avoiding short-term decisions by setting a Bonavia (Lewisham) and Geoffrey Brighty Ward and the Agincourt 600 Charity Fund. that he has been engaged in. legal obligation for government to plan for (Greenwich), the project designers – The panels are positioned at busy public His report claims that the current system the needs of future generations. He said: architect Madeleine Adams, local historian hubs, such as bus stops or path intersec - has been built “on the back of assertion “We need a new approach with people Neil Rhind, and history professor Anne tions, and avoid cluttering important views rather than evidence” and argues that at the heart of decisions and system which Curry: all praised the three-year project as and spaces. They are formed of enameled continued deregulation is leading to very meet the growing challenges of housing a great contribution to the area. white steel, screen-printed with full colour poor quality outcomes for people. affordability climate change and economic Prof. Curry is an expert on the battle of images, maps and supporting text. Moreover, persistent changes to planning transformation.” Agincourt and the board at the top of The Society’s brochure The Storyboards legislation have left the system powerless The review, of which the Town and Blackheath Hill in the north west of the on the Heath, with full details and a map, to defend the public interest and that there Country Planning Association (TCPA) Heath is placed at the spot where London’s is available from its office on 020 8297 has been “significant loss of public trust”. provides the secretariat, is being led by a mayor and aldermen met the victorious 1937 or email [email protected] Housing issues are a particular cause for cross-section of built environment al concern – Nick Raynsford was once the professionals and has engaged with over New clean air initiative is launched director of the Shelter Housing Aid Centre. 1,000 people over the past 12 months.

ver 30 partner organisations in the air quality in Greenwich caused by New houses? Let them eat cake! Ofields of academia, business and delivery vehicles – the first council- government, from across Europe, met in supported cargo bike zero emission deliv - he architects Nissen Richards have houses that won’t be built there for ten Royal Greenwich as part of the European ery scheme in London. Tdrawn up proposals for a new exhibi - years, if ever. Union funded ‘Sharing Cities’ programme. The ZED project will offer businesses tion space that will also provide live music There will be space for 1400 seats and Residents in East Greenwich and and local residents a professional delivery and conferences at Meridian Quays, near around 3000 standees. The new building Greenwich Peninsula will benefit from the service which can transport everything the 02. will provide jobs, and other developments five year programme which uses technolo - from letters and parcels through to goods Only temporary, though: the plan is to in the area include a new shopping centre gy and advances in data analytics to weighing up to 200kg, while contributing use the site only for 8 - 10 years until inside the 02 to be opened later this year, address challenges faced by major cities. zero emissions into the local environment. developer Knight Dragon decide to build with four million visitors expected annual - Sharing Cities works with the borough’s The company chosen to operate the housing; if they so decide. ly. Doubts have been expressed about the Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) pro - service ‘Recharge Cargo’ has a proven The new building will be, basically, a transport system’s ability to cope. gramme which tackle local air quality. track record operating an entirely cycle two-storey rectangular structure with black The theme of the consortium meeting based fleet of vehicles in Brighton, and cladding – in mourning, perhaps, for the The planning reference is 18/1285/F was ‘Delivery and Innovation through pays its staff the London Living Wage. Collaboration’. Partners shared their The borough is also launching a new experiences of implementing innovative low emission initiative for residents, a new Council urged ‘do the right thing’ trials in the fields of building retrofit, electric bike loan scheme. Residents can smart energy management systems, electric borrow an e-bike for a month to trial the mobility, smart lampposts, data platforms technology and see how it can help them ocal residents have long been critical him to “do the right thing” about cutting and citizen engagement. cycle more and further around London. Lof the decision to build London City pollution. The Royal Borough also took the All participating residents will be fully Cruise Port at Enderby Wharf without pro - Cllr Thorpe backed the scheme when it opportunity to launch a brand new project supported throughout the month and the viding a shore-based energy supply. came before the planning committee in called Zero Emission Deliveries (ZED), travel data collected will be evaluated by The campaigners – No Toxic Cruise 2015, and last year continued to defend it which aims to reduce congestion and poor . Port – argued that visiting liners’ diesel at a public meeting in Mycenae House, engines would be the equivalent of some organised by the local branch of the United 700 idling lorries, and ships should be Nations Association, despite protests from The smart city: Greenwich required to use cleaner on-shore power residents in Greenwich and the Isle of from the National Grid. Dogs about the impact of the scheme. London mayor Sadiq Khan has also Questioned by the London Assembly he Royal Borough of Greenwich’s The report judged that one of the most been critical of the plan - but he insists that member Caroline Pidgeon about the ground-breaking work on smart city ambitious smart city programmes has been the decision lies with Greenwich Council scheme, the mayor pointed out that the Tinnovation has been highlighted in a launched by the Royal Borough of and the Port of London Authority. He had responsibility for the scheme lies firmly high profile national study. Greenwich, led by the Digital Greenwich no powers, he said, to interfere with local with the council – but he said he will be Commissioned by the global technology team. council decisions. talking to Thorpe about the project to see giant Huawei, the UK Smart Cities Index, The study highlighted that Greenwich is Nevertheless, he has met the new leader what can be done. 2017 compared 20 UK cities on how they the London demonstration area for Sharing of the Council, Cllr Danny Thorpe, to talk Cllr Thorpe had used previous mayor are using smart city technology to tackle Cities - a €25million EU Horizon 2020 about the future of the planned cruise liner Boris Johnson’s backing for the scheme as urban challenges. It judged London and project led by London, Milan, and Lisbon. terminal at Enderby Wharf, and to urge justification for it going ahead as planned. Bristol to be the UK’s two leading smart The 3-year project, launched in January cities, highlighting the considerable 2016, is developing, deploying, and progress in several London boroughs, integrating replicable solutions across the A & A LANDSCAPES “notably in the ambitious Digital energy, transport, and information SPECTRUM Landscape Specialists Greenwich programme”. technology (ICT) sectors. The report highlighted that Royal The London projects include energy Painters & Decorators Greenwich is home to several advanced efficiency, renewable energy, urban Interior/Exterior transport innovation projects – many of mobility, and smart parking projects. 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