At the Meeting of Royal Borough of Greenwich Council last night (Wednesday 19th July) Labour’s Cabinet Member for Transport admitted that the failure to install a new pedestrian crossing at the top of Eltham High Street at the junction with Footscray Road is the result of delays by the Mayor of London’s (Sadiq Khan) Transport… Read More »

In House of Commons ballot results announced today, Eltham’s newly re-elected MP Clive Efford finished last in his bid to be elected Chair of the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.  The Chair of the Transport Select Committee has an important role to play in scrutinising the Government and would have allowed Mr Efford to… Read More »

At the recent meeting of the Eltham Town Centre Partnership (ETCP) held on 19th April, there was a substantial update provided on progress in bringing the Eltham Community Hospital into full use.  After a period where its usage appears to have been inefficient (to say the least) I am pleased to say that the briefing… Read More »

I (and I am sure my fellow Councillors) know that one of the things  which really annoys residents is dog fouling.  It annoys me too and as a dog owner I think the fines on those people who don’t clean up after their dogs should be higher and enforced with more regularity by the Council. … Read More »

As Greenwich Council and the local press celebrate the return of the Tall Ships event to Greenwich and Woolwich this weekend (nothing comparable for Eltham during the year you’ll note), I do find myself thinking questioning whether this is a good use of Council resources. There are two issues here for me; the most obvious… Read More »

At the July meeting of the Full Council, the Labour Cabinet Member for the Environment offered apologies on behalf of her Department and admitted to being personally upset by the situation with regard to weeds in answer to a direct question from me on the subject. I want to be clear that I think this… Read More »

I am increasingly concerned that Greenwich Council has delayed the publication of plans for extensions to the Eltham Park Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) as the future for the scheme slips into chaos and uncertainty. Over the course of the last two years, Eltham Park’s residents have been subject to a number of consultations about the… Read More »

Today at an auction thirteen bits of land around Crookston, Dairsie, Glenesk and Dumbreck roads were sold for £500. The plots (although I think this might be overplaying the size of some of them) seem to be leftover bits of land from when Bilton built the houses around the area being sold off for reasons which… Read More »

At June’s Council meeting I asked the Labour Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Transport once again about why no car park had been built outside the old Coronet cinema building to alleviate parking problems for neighbours and customers of Kinesis Gym and neighbouring shops. The answer was as follows: “I can confirm that the Council… Read More »

As the Nissan Car Dealership on Eltham High Street applies for planning permission to expand, the irrelevance of Greenwich Council’s plan for Eltham Town Centre has (once again) been made clear. This week the owners of the Nissan Car Dealership on Eltham High Street applied to redevelop their site.  The overview of the application is… Read More »