The Thames Path
Gwladys Street has sent me this - maybe someone else has some news on it...
"The riverside path is now closed from the Cutty Sark pub to the boat repairers yard. No notices explaining how long this is likely to before. The diversion takes people away from the river turning left at The Pelton Arms (a tidy, well-kept pub that seems to attract a respectable local clientele- and which will do well out of the temporary route). Lots of activity on two very large building sites-piles for buildings being drilled already. Somebody is going to make a great deal of money out of this development..."
Sadly it won't be me. I'll be looking into this when I can, but for now, folks, I'm taking a break. Normal service should resume next Wednesday. Happy Greenwich times...
"The riverside path is now closed from the Cutty Sark pub to the boat repairers yard. No notices explaining how long this is likely to before. The diversion takes people away from the river turning left at The Pelton Arms (a tidy, well-kept pub that seems to attract a respectable local clientele- and which will do well out of the temporary route). Lots of activity on two very large building sites-piles for buildings being drilled already. Somebody is going to make a great deal of money out of this development..."
Sadly it won't be me. I'll be looking into this when I can, but for now, folks, I'm taking a break. Normal service should resume next Wednesday. Happy Greenwich times...
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posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
09:53
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This is all for the Lovell's Wharf development, a massive development of which site clearance has been going on for about two months now, thankfully including the removal of the disgustingly ugly 1950's era Lovell's House offices, though sadly seeingthe total destruction of the old wharf site (some photos by an urban explorer can be seen at http://tinyurl.com/383esm ).
There's been a lot of controversy over the scale of this and originally it was going to be two massive towers that would have been totally out of character with the local environment. I think it is now going to be constituted of a number of smaller blocks. One of the main controversies is of the impact of several thousand more local residents on local traffic.
All I have seen of the development is a grainy photo in Green party election literature on the web, but I've never found any other images at all. Maybe someone else has?
A major, non-NIMBY, reason for objecting to the Lovell's Wharf towers was the impact on local transport networks. The Greenwich Waterfront Transit sounds great but it's actually just a glorified bus and in any case will do little to take people to where they actually want to go - in and out of central London. It's already clear that local services cannot cope with existing levels of population, let alone what will come in the future.
On that note, the train route into London from Maze Hill is noticeably busier than it was. Every single train into London, even those leaving as early as 7am are heaving at the seams. A few more developments along this line and we'll be back to the bad old days of the mid-90s when you could find yourself unable to get on certain trains.
Yeah - I've noticed that the Maze Hill train into town is much busier. Why is that? Maybe we could use the new development to encourage the powers that be to make the Charing Cross trains stop at Maze Hill...?
That's interesting - why have the trains gotten less busy since the mid-90s?
By the way, you can see some pictures of the planned development at this site. Click on UK, and then Development.
http://www.lrp.co.uk/
Oh dear, nano, that is grim! More generic apartment blocks...
Nano sez: those designs, plus everything else that looks like 'luxury flats', is just what modern 21st century English architecture looks like! Nowt much to do about it ...
A lot of mainline rail passengers defected to the Jubilee Line in 1999 - over the past couple of years the Greenwich line is probably as busy as it was back then, and then some - partly because connections to North Greenwich deteriorated rapidly, partly because of the DLR at Greenwich, partly because of local families selling up and being replaced by commuters, and partly because London's booming, innit?
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