Greenwich & Lewisham Weekender - February 8th 2023

YOUR voluntary and community sector

Over the next four years, voluntary and community organisations across Royal Greenwich will receive £3.655 million in council funding.

The 67 Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) grants were decided through a robust application and assessment process and were formally agreed by the Council’s Cabinet on 25 January.

Councillor Adel Khaireh, Cabinet Member for Equality, Culture and Communities, said: “Our borough’s voluntary and community sector plays an essential role in supporting the most in need throughout our diverse communities

including inequality, poverty, homelessness, loneliness, domestic abuse, mental health issues and much more.”

All the successful organisations have pledged to sign the Royal Greenwich Equality and Equity Charter, a commitment to champion equality across the borough.

The voluntary and community sector grants process will open again in 2027. The Council

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Pick of the Week

By Holly O’Mahony

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Musical mayhem

Slapstick stars of Giffords Circus Tweedy and Mikey have broken away to create their own show – but just what this show will be about, they’re unsure. Tweedy wants it to be all circus skills, while Mikey is desperate to star in his own musical. One thing’s for certain, though: they’ll be muddling through their ideas in front of a live audience in Greenwich this weekend.

Greenwich Theatre, Crooms Hill, London SE10 8ES. February 12, 2pm.

Admission: £16.

www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk/events/tweedys-musical-mayhem/

It’s finger-on-the-buzzer time at Blackheath Halls

Grab your smartest friends and prepare to have your wits tested at Blackheath Halls’ quiz night this Friday. It’s all for a good cause: the quiz night is raising money to help Blackheath Halls run its community initiatives, including its Youth Choir and Opera. Up to eight players are permitted per team.

Great Hall at Blackheath Halls, 23 Lee Road, Blackheath, London SE3 9RQ. February 10 at 7:30pm. Admission: £15.

www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/quiz-night-2023/

Behind the scenes

Part of its collaboration with the University of Greenwich, Woolwich Works is hosting Livi Vaughan, designer and creative director of immersive theatre company Punchdrunk (The Burnt City), for a talk about working in the arts. Aimed primarily at young people looking to break into the industry, the talk is a chance to hear from one of its leading creatives about designing an immersive world audiences can explore.

Livi is in conversation with Greenwich University’s Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Scenography David Hockham. The talk is being followed by a networking session in the Visitors’ Book Café.

The Fireworks Factory, 11 No 1 Street, Royal Arsenal, London SE18 6HD. February 8, 6pm. Admission: FREE.

www.woolwich.works/events/creative-futures-livi-vaughan-interviewed-by-davidhockham

Final countdown for Rock of Ages

Leathers and air guitars at the ready: fist-pumping musical Rock of Ages is returning to the Churchill Theatre as part of its farewell tour, with Coronation Street’s Kevin Kennedy joining the cast. Expect renditions of some of the greatest rock hits ever made. Don’t Stop Believin!

Churchill Theatre, High Street, Bromley BR1 1HA. February 2-11, performance times vary. Admission: £15+.

www.churchilltheatre.co.uk/Online/tickets-rock-of-ages-bromley-2022

Lewisham’s got talent

If you’ve got performance in your bones and are searching for a stage to show your talents to the world (well, borough), sign up for Ziah’s Games Night at the Albany in Deptford. This open-mic variety show brings local artists together to complete a series of music-related challenges in a bid to find recognition and entertain the crowds. Suitable for ages 16+.

The Albany, Douglas Way, London SE8 4AG. February 10, 7:30pm - 9:30pm. Admission: pay-what-you-decide. www.thealbany.org.uk/shows/ziahs-game-night-2/

The Brits - Live!

The 43rd Brit Awards ceremony is being held at the O2 Arena on Saturday, February 11, and while you can watch along with the nation from your sofa at home, wouldn’t it be more fun to pop along to Greenwich Peninsula and see the stars live? Tickets are still available for the ceremony, where Cat Burns, Harry Styles, Sam Smith and Wet Leg are all set to perform.

The O2, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX. February 11, doors 6:30pm. Admission: £60.

www.theo2.co.uk/events/detail/the-brit-awards-2023

Arts and crafts, storytelling and fierce drag queens:

LGBTQ+ History Month at the National Maritime Museum

Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) is flying the rainbow Pride flag for LGBTQ+ History Month, running a week-long programme of family events this February half-term, under the banner ‘Sailing Out’. Events include the chance to construct costume hats as a symbol of identity, inspired by Queen Elizabeth I (February 12); learn about past LGBTQ+ heroes of the maritime community (February 14); create your own merfolk using the colours of the Pride flag (February 13); and make your own flag in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community (February 19).

Katie Cassels: Sailing Out is a week of activities across February half-

I spoke to Katie Cassels, RMG’s Families and Young People Manager, and Charlotte Paddock, the museums’ Adults and Communities Participation Manager, to find out more…

Holly O’Mahony: RMG runs LGBTQ+

events throughout the year, but what’s special about the Sailing Out programme, which coincides with LGBTQ+ History Month?

term, inspired by LGBTQ+ histories. Whilst families will encounter LGBTQ+ histories in facilitated sessions across the year at the museum, Sailing Out allows families to return across the week and explore a new object or story from the collection each time.

HOM: Is there a highlight in the

programme our readers should know about?

Charlotte Paddock: Out at Sea is a really wonderful day to celebrate all LGBTQ+ families, including visitors’ own definitions of what ‘family’ can be. There will be exciting interactive performances, storytelling, creative

activities and queer history talks, all of which are inspired by queer maritime history that you can find in the National Maritime Museum.

Our showstopper event to close the month is Fierce Queens: All Aboard, a spectacular drag takeover of the Cutty Sark curated by drag king and queen, Adam All and Apples Derrieres. It’s a fantastic evening filled with drag and cabaret performances, queer history talks and dancing beneath the ship’s hull. It’s not to be missed!

HOM: Why is actively supporting the LGBTQ+ community, especially families, so important to RMG?

CP: LGBTQ+ people have always been present throughout history but have often been left out or excluded from the narrative. The RMG collection is a national collection meaning it belongs to everyone in Britain and therefore it needs to be relevant and inclusive to all, including the LGBTQ+ community. It’s important to us that we create opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community to engage with the collection in a supported way that celebrates their identity, and demonstrates the legacy and impact of LGBTQ+ people throughout history. It’s especially important to us that LGBTQ+ families feel that RMG is a safe and welcoming space where they can meet other families like theirs, build a community and feel a sense of belonging.

Sailing Out is taking place at the National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, London SE10 9NF. February 12 - 19, 11am - 1pm & 2pm - 4pm. Admission: FREE. www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/ground-floor/ february-half-term-sailing-out

History comes alive at Eltham Palace and Gardens

Take the sprogs on a family day out to Eltham Palace and Gardens this February half-term and you’ll come face-to-face with highly and lowly characters from the palace’s infamous past. They’ll be strutting the grounds, performing titbits or chewing your ears off about what things were like in their day. And if your little ones think school is boring, they’ll be grateful for it after discovering what the classroom was like for Victorian children.

Eltham Palace and Gardens, Court Yard, London SE9 5QE. February 11 - 19, 10am - 4pm. £17.60/£10.60 children. www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-on/elthampalace-feb-half-term/

A look inside Catford’s newly reopened Broadway Theatre

Catford’s 90-year-old Broadway Theatre is set to reopen its doors this week for the first time since 2020. But the Grade II listed venue on Rushey Green hasn’t spent the last three years shuttered because of the pandemic. By a stroke of luck, the ill-fated year that wreaked havoc for arts venues up and down the country happened to be when Catford’s community theatre was due to undergo a £7m refurbishment, funded by Lewisham Council, writes Holly O’Mahony…

Carried out by Rooff Construction, the restoration includes upgraded seating, improved access and facilities for those with mobility issues, new digital signage and a more contemporary bar area.

“All of the original terrazzo floors throughout the building have been restored. We’ve got state-of-the-art accessibility, fantastic hearing loops throughout, an eco-friendly heating system, and a new PA system so we can get more live music into the venue,” beams Broadway Theatre Manager Carmel O’ Connor.

The capacity of the theatre is now 772 in the main auditorium and 120 in the downstairs studio. It’s a loss of about eight seats, Carmel tells me, but the restructure allows for more legroom.

“[The theatre] was already accessible, but not to the extent it is now. Visitors with disabilities could never access the studio in the basement, and now they can,” Carmel explains. In the past, the backstage team would have to build a platform to help performers in wheelchairs access the stage, but now there’s two lifts providing access, plus a fully accessible dressing room.

For Lewisham Council’s Cabinet

Lead for Culture, Councillor James-J Walsh, the reopening of the theatre is a key pillar in the borough’s legacy following its stint as London Borough of Culture in 2022.

“Good theatre promotes thoughtchanging behaviour and uncovers stories that would be lost or not heard. It creates the ability for us to understand

one another,” he says. “Also for us in Lewisham, there’s a large section of our community who work in culture and the arts, and having a theatre that’s engaging with its community allows them to have professional success.”

The reopening programme

Comedy is at the heart of Broadway Theatre’s reopening programme, which kicks off on February 12 with a varietystyle line up of seven stand-up comics, performing ‘Credit Crunch Comedy: The Valentine’s Special’. Then on February 23 and 24, the theatre welcomes back local comedy duo Scummy Mummies.

Another special performance comes from Catford’s Utopian Amateur Operatic Society. “They were the first people to step on stage in 1932 and they’re coming back in March this year with their production of Snow White,” says Carmel, joking: “It’s not the same cast, obviously!”

A major coup for the theatre is the onboarding of Catford resident Ryan Calais Cameron’s award-winning theatre company Nouveau Riche as its associate artists. The company’s arrival at the theatre coincides with their show For Black Boys Who Consider Suicide

When The Hue Gets Too Heavy receiving a West End run, following a successful stretch at the Royal Court theatre.

“It’s huge for us as a venue to have [Nouveau Riche] as our associates,” stresses Carmel. “They’re so grounded and brilliant.” Over the next two years, the company is scheduled to produce 24 shows in the studio theatre, which will

also play home to 10 other associate artists. Audiences can expect to see “a variety of high quality theatre with really low ticket prices” as a result.

In the main house, Carmel is adamant about keeping tickets between £25£35, while in the studio space they’ll be “much lower”. She reasons: “We have to bear in mind we’re in a cost of living crisis and the last thing people are going to do is book tickets to the theatre when they’re really struggling.”

Nouveau Riche is also committed to doing outreach work with local schools.

“A big part of what Ryan likes to do is to bring in young people and engage with them, giving them an opportunity to be in a [performance] venue and learning,” Carmel explains.

On the theatre’s commitment to outreach work, Cllr Walsh adds: “It will

allow us to take creative chances and allow those who don’t traditionally have [a theatre] background to create new types of work for different types of audiences. [It will] allow us to really deliver amazing work and the energy you get from live theatre to a whole host of different people.”

Greenwich performing arts conservatoire Trinity Laban will also be coming to the Broadway Theatre to run Lewisham Schools Dance, an event which brings together schools across the borough for a celebration of dance-led performances.

Integral to the theatre’s reopening programme is keeping the focus local. “We’re going to do a big pantomime this year that’s going to have a local focus and be written bespoke [for Broadway Theatre],” reveals Carmel.

While the finer details and names of creatives are yet to be announced, she promises “it’s got some really good messaging around climate change and issues that are really important to people. It will be glitzy but clever at the same time, and we will have had engagement with loads of young people across the borough leading up to that.”

Community spaces

While all eyes are currently on Broadway Theatre’s performance spaces, Carmel hopes that by summertime, the theatre will have also become a community hub. “We’ll have community events, [where] people from the local community who can’t afford to hire the main auditorium will be able to use the bar space for pop-ups, monologue slams, jazz nights and comedy,” she says Hopes for the future

“Too many people from a monographic background break into the theatre world. [The reopening of Broadway Theatre] is another opportunity for home-grown talent to be fostered and developed… giving people access to careers that are really lucrative and shining a light on our own borough,” says Cllr Walsh. “This is a fantastic opportunity for us to build on [Lewisham’s] legacy from the London Borough of Culture year, and make sure we have a strong future going forward.”

Carmel agrees: “To Lewisham’s eternal credit, they have really protected this Grade II listed building. It’s not easy to maintain; it needed a big investment to keep it safe for the next 90 years. This investment will help it become an anchor in the borough’s cultural legacy.”

Broadway Theatre reopens on February 12. Catford Road, London SE6 4RU. Membership plans for those who wish to become a friend of the theatre start at £3.50 per month. For the full reopening programme and ticket prices, visit: www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk/.

New year, new horizons? How about a rewarding career in social care?

It’s a new year and there are new career opportunities available within adult social care. You don’t need specific qualifications to get started – on job training is provided – and you can build a meaningful, rewarding career that can be flexible to fit your lifestyle.

Care worker Danielle and care recipient Patrick have formed a successful partnership during three years together.

Danielle, who is 35 years old, started work in domiciliary care as a teenager and 28-year-old Patrick, who has a condition called Global Development Delay, has lived in supported housing since 2013.

Speaking about Patrick, Danielle said: “It’s all about his life and his routine so that includes shopping, budgeting, cooking, hobbies and connecting with friends and family.

“My day starts with Patrick getting ready. He can wash himself but I’ll support him when he’s shaving, choosing clothes and getting dressed as well as having breakfast, hopefully making healthy diet choices.

“I’m there to support Patrick to ensure he can live independently in his home.”

Danielle explained what she enjoys most about the job: “Patrick lives with two other men, who also have their own carers, so it can

get really lively and sociable here, which is great fun.

“Patrick leads a very full life and loves a laugh and joke so I find it really rewarding to play such a big part in enabling him to enjoy his life.”

Danielle continued: “It’s so rewarding. I go home with a smile on my face knowing I’ve given 100 per cent to my job, which is like a home from home for me. That makes me feel I’m getting it right.

“It’s a very flexible job and would fit in with most people’s lives and families.

“It’s important to remember that a huge variety of people need different types of care. You’re trained and supported on the job and are made to feel very much part of a team.”

Patrick’s condition

impairs walking, talking, movement skills and learning as well as interacting with others socially and emotionally.

He commented: “I really enjoy my life to be honest and I feel very comfortable living

here, which I can do because Danielle supports me.

“I like cooking with her. Everyone gets on well and we have a laugh.

“I’ve been here ten years now and she helps me do everything I want.”

To find out more about fulfilling opportunities in adult social care near you, visit adultsocialcare. co.uk

Care worker Danielle and care recipient Patrick Pictures: Ben Gregory-Ring

It’s so rewarding. I go home with a smile on my face

Care worker Danielle

Appointment of Trustees

Millwall Community Trust is a registered charity and the Club Community Organisation of Millwall Football Club. As a Trustee, you will contribute to setting the strategic direction and overseeing the effective management of the Trust. Working with over 8,000 people mainly in Southwark and Lewisham each year, the Trust has a clearer vision to use the unique passion of Millwall FC to connect and inspire the Club’s communities. The Trust aims to deliver high quality services which engage, enable and improve the lives of people, in key areas such as education and employability, school coaching & participation, community development, health improvement and facilities management. It is also proposing to expand its operations to include the Sevenoaks area.

We are seeking additional Trustees from diverse backgrounds who can bring to the Trust their enthusiasm and experience gained in their local communities. The Trust is seeking to broaden Board diversity. Applications are welcome from people of all abilities and characteristics, and in particular female, younger, black, Asian and mixed heritage applicants and those from UK ethnic minority communities. The Trust would welcome applications from candidates with a legal background. Appointments are for three years and are unpaid. Trustees should be prepared to take part in Board meetings at least four times a year and to serve on at least one Committee.

If you are interested and would like to receive more information and details of how to apply, please email the Trust’s Secretary: pohalloran@millwallcommunity.org.uk

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Charlton players Lois Roche, Hannah Godfrey and Todd Kane visit 60 girls in U11 tournament

On Thursday 2 February, Charlton Athletic Community Trust (CACT) welcomed more than 60 girls from 28 local schools to the Charlton Athletic Training Ground for a Premier League Primary Stars tournament.

Charlton Athletic players Hannah Godfrey, Lois Roche and Todd Kane came down to the tournament to meet the participants and help inspire the next generation of footballers.

The young participants, many of which were Charlton fans themselves, asked the players a wide range of questions and picked up lots of top tips after hearing about each of the players’ journey to becoming a professional footballer.

Reflecting on the visit, Lois said: “It was so good to see so many girls

playing and enjoying their football.

It was great to be involved as we want to keep pushing the women’s game and getting more and more girls playing. Thanks for having us!”

St Thomas a Becket School, based in Abbey Wood, came out on top after

getting through dramatic penalty shootouts in the quarter and semifinals, and sealing the deal with an impressive 2-0 victory in the final.

The St Thomas a Becket team will go on to represent CACT at the next round, the Primary Stars U11 Girls

Regional Finals, which will see 14 teams, including the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea, and West Ham, welcomed to the Training Ground on 1 March.

To find out more about CACT’s School Sports offer, please visit: cact.org.uk/ cact/what-we-do/football-and-sports-

development/school-sport-offer

CACT’s holiday football courses are back for the February half-term. If you are interested in advancing your child’s football skills, find a course near you and sign them up now by visiting: cact.gives/courses

„ Charlton Athletic’s Todd Kane came along and spoke to the girls about all things Charlton!

„ :The girls loved their time chatting to Lois and Hannah who gave the girls lots of advice about a career in football.

Making Merry with vehicle engines

Mary Mills

In the past five articles I’ve been talking about manufacturers and experimenters with mechanically driven road transport in Greenwich in the 19th century. The majority of these vehicles were steam powered and most seem to have replicated private coaches and carriages with some experiments with making public service vehicles. Last week looked at early 20th century attempts to build commercial vehicles and public service vehicles at what had been Penn’s works in Blackheath Road. This week I need to return to the 19th century and look at a firm which, rather surprisingly, was making engines for public service vehicles at quite an early date.

We all know Merryweather’s as a manufacturer of fire engines. However their fire pumps were carried on horse-drawn vehicles until the 1890s while from the 1870s they made steam powered trams. Their first tram engine was actually made in Clapham before they moved to Greenwich in 1876.

In 1872 a Croydon-based engineer, John Grantham, had designed a steam tram: it was a four-wheel double deck car with a two cylinder engine. The prototype was built by the Oldbury Railway Carriage and Wagon Company while the steam engine which powered it was supplied by Merryweather & Sons. After some problems, including modifications to the engine, it went to the Wantage Tramway which took passengers between the town and the station

Merryweather’s moved to Greenwich in 1876. Many people will remember their works in Greenwich High Road and today new buildings stand in what is now called Merryweather Place. It had a long Art Deco frontage but despite strong protests about its demolition and a lot of very hard work by local people to try and save this, and get older parts of the factory listed, because it had been rebuilt following Second World War bombing it could not be listed and saved.

Having moved to Greenwich in 1856 Merryweather’s continued to make trams - I assume they made the bodywork as well as the engine, although that is a bit unclear. Most of these vehicles were sold abroad. Between 1875 and 1892 the factory

produced about 174 steam tram engines, of which only 41 were used in Britain –they included 46 for Paris, 6 for Kassel Germany, 15 for Barcelona, 15 for the Netherlands, 11 for New Zealand and 15 for Rangoon.

One of the problems for using steam trams in England were the rules and regulations and the need to apply for and get permission from the Board of Trade. There was also what we now call ‘the Red Flag Act’ - where steam vehicles on public roads were limited to very low speeds and had to have a man walking in front with a red flag. This had originally been passed after complaints from the Turnpike road authorities and others who had to maintain roads, about the damage done by heavy steam vehicles.

A Parliamentary Select Committee was set up to try and look at how public service vehicles could be used on ‘common roads’. As part of this enquiry the Committee visited a tramway on which a steam locomotive had been running. This was the North Metropolitan Tramway Company’s system between Stratford and Leytonstone, and the machine shown was ‘the well-known Merryweather steam tram engine... many of which type have been working the regular traffic on lines in Paris for several months past, and with the most satisfactory results’. Mr. J. C. Merryweather and Mr. H. Merryweather were present to see ‘The run most successfully performed, though the capacity of the engine was severely tested’. The committee were

told about Merryweather’s contracts for ‘tramways at Barcelona and Cassel, which latter line is under the special patronage of His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince of Germany’.

In the same year that the enquiry took place Merryweather’s sold one tram to the National Rifle Association in Wimbledon. This was to take participants to the site of the shooting competitions on specially laid track which would be removed at the end of the competition.

It would be interesting to know how these vehicles - assuming they were exporting the entire vehicle and not just the engine -went from Greenwich High Road to Brazil, or wherever. Obviously they went by ship but leaving from a wharf on Deptford Creek seems unlikely, as a ship which was going to cross the seas to South America would not really been able to get that high up the Creek. So there must have been some transshipment process where such vehicles could be loaded onto ocean going ships.

There is said to be only one Merryweather tram stlll in existence. It dates from 1881 and and is in a transport museum in Utrecht. https:// www.spoorwegmuseum.nl/en/ontdek/ de-collectie/our-trains/rstm-2/ n

Merryweather’s continued to make horse-drawn fire engines until the 1890s. Reports of late 19th-century fires in the press have a great feeling of excitement as appliances from fire stations around the area come galloping up with heroic firemen waiting to jump off and start pumping water. These days we have no idea who our firemen are or who command them. In those days each local fire chief was well known

„ Merryweather works Greenwich High Road

„ Drawing of Fire King – first steam propelled fire engine

and each one was a hero. The head of the London Fire Brigade was a major figure. The Fire Brigade Chief James Braidwood was killed in the 1861 fire in Tooley Street at London Bridge and thus became a national hero. There is a plaque to him on the corner of Battle Bridge Lane and Tooley Street. He was replaced by the romantic figure of Eyre Massey Shaw whom - as I mentioned in my book on the Creek - is mentioned in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Iolanthe, and took a bow on the first night when he there was with a lady who was not his wife... and one day I will write about firefighter, the Duke of Sutherland.

In 1899, Merryweather produced the world’s first ‘self-propelled steam fire engine’, the ‘Fire King’; which was for Port Louis on Mauritius. By 1907 twenty-one Fire Kings were in operational use around the country, including one with the London Fire Brigade. A modified Fire King was stationed at Whitefriars Fire Station in the City of London - it could go at a speed of 20-30 mph but was unable to negotiate a significant gradient without stopping to build up a head of steam.

The first motorised fire engine in London was a Merryweather appliance delivered to the Finchley Fire Brigade in 1904. It was commemorated in April 1974 by the issue of a 3.5 pence Royal Mail postage stamp. The actual vehicle is preserved in the Science Museum store at Wroughton in Wiltshire. It was fitted with a Hatfield petrol pump, which was the first fire pump powered

by a petrol engine and capable of delivering 250 gallons per minute.

I am not sure if the fire float Massey Shaw counts as a vehicle in terms of this article - which is about road transport in the 19th century. Massey Shaw was constructed by boatbuilders in the 1930s and she even has engines. However she is associated with Merryweather for her pumps which had thrown river water up to great heights in a decorative way whenever her crew wanted to celebrate something. She had an important role with a long history of attending fires in the River Thames both in wartime and peace. She is well known for her role in the Dunkirk landings and led the flotillas of small boats back up the Thames to the London Fire Brigade jetty.

One oddity at Merryweathers was their manufacture of what has been called the ‘first car’. In 1888 they built the Butler Petrol Cycle - a threewheeled petrol vehicle. Edward Butler had been investigating a number of similar projects and had worked for a number of local firms – but not for Merryweather. In 1887 he had patented a petrol driven tricycle and placed an order with Merryweather to manufacture a prototype, which they duly did. Tests on it were not particularly successful and it appeared that its use would have contravened the ‘red flag’ acts. Butler went on to other researches with other firms and manufacturers. I have a long and detailed article about Butler by L.R.Higgins, which I understand is deposited in the Bexley archives.

The industries of Deptford Creek by

Mary Mills

Photo:RoswithaChesher

„ Merryweather publicity leaflet

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Development: Window Replacement

Conservation Area: SHREWSBURY PARK ESTATE

Applicant: B Kaler 23/0057/F

Site Address: 18A BENNETT PARK, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 9RB

Development: Conversion of loft into habitable space, together with

the installation of 2 conservation-style rooflights to side and rear roof slopes and all associated internal works.

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: Mr Andrew Whiting HUT 23/0118/HD

Site Address: 19 BROOKLANDS PARK, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 9BN

Development: Installation of Solar Panels on the front roof slope

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: Mr John Croke 23/0174/F

Site Address: 3C COLERAINE ROAD, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 7PF

Development: Replacement of exisitng windows with a new softwood timber casement material and artic white finish and associated external works

Conservation Area: WESTCOMBE PARK

Applicant: Ms Elizabeth Franks 23/0234/MA

Site Address: 4 NEVADA STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9JL

Development: An application submitted under Section 73 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 for a minor material amendment in connection with the planning permission dated 07/05/2021 (Reference: 21/0366/F) for change of use from A1 to C3 single family dwellinghouse, part 3/1 storey rear extension, further excavation of existing rear land to create basement and glazed link to one storey living area and study to the rear to amend Condition 2 (Approved Plans) to allow:

Increase depth of ground floor rear extension by 130mm, amendments to design of courtyard stair case, replace ground floor glazed balustrade around lower ground courtyard with iron railing, demolish and rebuild chimney minor increase in height of ground floor terrace boundary wall, and amended design of brick lintels on rear elevation.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: Mr P. Doig 23/0243/HD

Site Address: 96 PLUMSTEAD COMMON ROAD, PLUMSTEAD, LONDON,

SE18 3RE

Development: Construction of new external stairs and alterations to rear fenestration.

Conservation Area: PLUMSTEAD COMMON

Applicant: Mr Langford 23/0254/HD

Site Address: 58 BRAND STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8SR

Development: Replacement of existing rotten single glazed timber windows with double glazed tiber windows like for like.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Applicant: Sara Emanuel 23/0271/HD

Site Address: 17 ASHBURNHAM GROVE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 8UH

Development: Partial rebuilding and resurfacing of external steps to front entrance door and left hand wall. Redesign and rebuilding of steps to basement and demolition and rebuilding of retaining wall. Provision of handrails to steps from basement to front door.

Conservation Area: ASHBURNHAM TRIANGLE

Applicant: Ann Miller The Hyde Group 23/0275/HD

Site Address: 119 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6TR

Development: Replacement of existing front door with Climatec Period 1930`s Style authentic timber effect door to match existing size and replacement of front and rear windows and rear garden door to match existing styles and sizes.

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Mr Gomer 23/0287/HD

Site Address: 87 MANOR WAY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON, SE3 9XG

Development: Demolish the existing rear extension and construction of a single-storey rear extension, a front side porch extension, install new windows and carry-out internal layout alterations.

Conservation Area: BLACKHEATH PARK

Applicant: Mr Kiran 23/0305/HD

Site Address: 258 WELL HALL ROAD, ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 6ST

Development: Double storey rear extension, designed accordingly the

original style

Conservation Area: PROGRESS ESTATE

Applicant: Mr Nash 23/0324/HD

Site Address: 11 RANDALL PLACE, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9LA

Development: Replacement of windows and doors to front and rear of property.

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Publicity for Listed Building Consent

Applicant: Mr Wells Delta Bravo 23/0194/L

Site Address: SHIVA, 24 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Display of 1 x externally illuminated fascia sign, 1 x non-illuminated projecting sign and 1 x internally illuminated display screen (revised description)

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH

Listed Building: Grade 2

Publicity for Advertisements

Applicant: Mr Wells Delta Bravo 23/0193/A

Site Address: SHIVA, 24 GREENWICH CHURCH STREET, GREENWICH, LONDON, SE10 9BJ

Development: Display of 1 x externally illuminated fascia sign, 1 x non-illuminated projecting sign and 1 x internally illuminated display screen (revised description)

Conservation Area: WEST GREENWICH Call

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)

[Greenvale Road] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out water main repair.

2. The Order will come into operation on 14th February 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 7 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Greenvale Road outside 131.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via (i) Westmount Road, Earlshall Road, Glenesk Road and vice versa. (ii) Westmount Road, Eltham Park Gardens, Glenesk Road and vice versa. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Transport

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 3rd February 2023

(INTERNAL REF: PL/468/LA445246)

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1)

[Villas Road]

PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE

(ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Network Rail who need to carry out vegetation removal works.

2. The Order will come into operation on 19th February 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 1 day. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in Villas Road over the Railway Bridge.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via (i) Walmer Terrace and Invermore Place (ii) Walmer Place, Plumstead High Street and Plumstead Road . Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Transport

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 3rd February 2023

(INTERNAL REF: PL/463/LA443645)

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [Feathers Place] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out Sewer works.

2. The Order will come into operation on 15th February 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 4 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Feathers Place over the Railway Bridge.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Park Vista, Park Row and Vice versa. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Transport

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 3rd February 2023

(INTERNAL REF: PL/471/LA446080)

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [Woolwich Road] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich makes this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by LSA design who need to carry out footway works.

2. The Order will come into operation on 11th February 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 1 week. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit the use of the Cycle Lane outside 700 Woolwich Road.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation Cyclists to dismount and use footway and remount after works. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Interim Assistant Director, Transport and Sustainability

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 3rd February 2023

(INTERNAL REF: PL/000/LATBC)

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [Wricklemarsh Road]

PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out water main repair.

2. The Order will come into operation on 15th February 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 7 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering, exiting, proceeding or waiting (including waiting for the purposes of loading or unloading) in, Wricklemarsh Road outside number 94.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation traffic will be diverted via Hargood Road, Dursley Road, Woolacombe Road and vice versa. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Transport

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 3rd February 2023

(INTERNAL REF: PL/484/LA443791)

ROYAL BOROUGH of GREENWICH ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14(1) [Trafalgar Road] PLANNED ROAD CLOSURE (ORDER)

1. The Royal Borough of Greenwich intends to make this Order in exercise of powers under section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This is to facilitate works by Thames Water who need to carry out Water meter repair.

2. The Order will come into operation on the 17th February 2023 and would continue to be valid for 18 months. However the works are expected to take 5 days. The duration of the Order can be extended with the approval of the Secretary of State for Transport.

3. The effect of the Order would be to temporarily prohibit cyclists from using the cycle lane outside 205-213 Trafalgar Road.

4. Whilst the Order is in operation Cyclists should dismount and use footway around works. Prohibitions remain in force, pedestrians are not affected and vehicle access will be maintained wherever possible.

5. Nothing in this Notice will apply to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or traffic warden, to emergency service vehicles, or to vehicles being used in connection with the works.

6. The restrictions described above will apply only during such times and to such extent as shall be indicated by traffic signs as prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016.

7. Queries concerning these works should be directed to the Royal Borough of Greenwich’s Directorate of Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills on 020 8921 6340.

Assistant Director, Transport

The Woolwich Centre, 35 Wellington Street, SE18 6HQ

Dated 3rd February 2023

(INTERNAL REF: PL/491/LA326315)

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