This Tuesday Royal Borough of Greenwich Council will review proposals to introduce ‘Garden Waste Charging’ this autumn as part of a package of cuts to services and increases in charges designed to address a massive financial deficit resulting from mismanagement by the Labour Councillors. Buried in the Appendix of the fascinating sounding ‘2025/26 Q1 Budget… Read More »
Demelza has joined a campaign calling on the Prime Minister to secure sustainable funding for the children’s hospice sector so children with serious or life-limiting conditions are guaranteed palliative and end of life care when they need it. The Children’s Care Matters campaign puts pressure on the government to guarantee the Children’s Hospice Grant –… Read More »
The views of residents living in west Eltham are being ignored by Greenwich Council as it announced its plans for parking restrictions across much of the borough. Having been consulted on parking restrictions in March as part of the Sustainable Streets programme, Eltham has been ignored once again as the Council announced and partly abandoned… Read More »
I find myself questioning Greenwich Council’s proposal to use cameras to restrict the ability of vehicles to access roads around schools at pick-up and drop-off times as this will completely change the way in which existing School Streets function. Greenwich Council plans to convert 15 existing schemes over to camera usage and introduce 21 new… Read More »
After years of ‘managed decline’ of the borough’s roads, Greenwich Council is suddenly boasting of investing in repairing potholes. This is solely thanks to the Labour Government’s recent allocation of funds in a desperate attempt to improve their (lack of) popularity. However, no plan as to how these funds will be allocated has yet been… Read More »
An Eltham resident is questioning the Mayor of London’s ability to manage the police after he was charged for his stolen motor home crossing a ULEZ boundary. The Progress Estate resident’s motor home was stolen from outside his home at the end of March and as it was driven away it crossed an old ULEZ… Read More »
An Eltham-based children’s charity is encouraging residents to support its spring appeal as there are only a few more weeks before a generous match funding pledge finishes. Demelza, which has a site in Wensley Close, Eltham and supports children with serious or life-limiting conditions across South East London, launched its spring appeal earlier this year.… Read More »
If you live on the Page or part of the Progress Estate in Eltham you may have recently received a letter from Greenwich Council about it’s ‘Sustainable Streets’ programme which ‘aims to reduce car journeys’ by a range of measure targeted at drivers. On it’s website and in the letter the Council states: “The council will… Read More »
Specialist nurses looking for a new challenge are invited to attend a recruitment day at a children’s hospice – where they could be interviewed for a job on the spot. Demelza is hosting the event at its hospice in Wensley Close, Eltham, on Thursday 27 February with the aim of filling five fulltime equivalent Band… Read More »
While the imposition of tax on private schools is getting all the headlines for reducing the quality of education available to a small proportion of school pupils, other changes being pushed through by the Labour Government are going to have a negative effect on the vast majority of secondary school students in Eltham. The Conservative… Read More »