Ashburnham Triangle Association

A reminder that the ATA's Mick Delap is putting on a performance on  Friday, 24th of May , on the Cutty Sark. It will be an evening of poetry and live music, paying tribute to the age of sail, in the theatre deep in the cargo hold of the Cutty Sark.  See full details by clicking here .

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Anyone interested in the Lenox Project will be interested to learn that they will be at the Friends of Nunhead Cemetery open day this Saturday (May 18th). Representatives from the project will be there with their cannon and exhibition trailer, so feel free to come along to the free event to find out more about their plans for the project's new base in Deptford.

A message from the ATA’s Mick Delap. The Ashburnham Triangle swifts are back, nesting again in numbers in the eaves of Davy's Wine Shop. I find the sight of a swift swooping onto a nest is one of my most exciting wildlife experiences. If the swift has bred here before, then it will not have closed its wings for a whole year. A year that will have taken these wind travellers down to West Africa, then across to East and Southern Africa. And then back. Without ever closing their wings. And if it's a Greenwich swift breeding here for the first time as an adult, it won't have closed its wings for an extraordinary three years. Until now. Go and see for yourself. Meanwhile, I am in need of urgent help. I am putting on a performance next Friday, 24th of May , on the Cutty Sark. It will be an evening of poetry and live music, paying tribute to the age of sail, in the theatre deep in the cargo hold of that other great wind machine, the Cutty Sark. See full details by cli...

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The annual ATA Plant Swap will be on  Saturday 25th May between 11am-12pm in the Play Street (Ashburnham Retreat, SE10 8TZ). Please bring plants or anything plant-related to swap, or come along and pick up a bargain. If you've nothing to swap donations are very welcome for ‘Water for Kids’. Everybody is welcome. See you there!

Sadly we have to say goodbye to Sergeant Diane Hill who has been an integral part of the Safer Neighbourhoods Police Team for the last 4 years in West Greenwich. Her most recent initiative helped bring SmartWater to the Triangle. Diane has been promoted to Inspector and is transferring to Swanley in Kent to the First Response Team. We wish her all the best in her new role.   Sergeant Hill will be replaced by Sergeant Ian O’Hara on 2 June.   The rest of the Safer Neighbourhood Police Team remains unchanged: Police Constable John Moody Police Constable Jaime Welch - currently on maternity leave but returning late Aug/Sept PCSO Henry Lawton Over the last two months burglary figures  are down - we have five reported incidents in the Triangle. Motor vehicle crime, unfortunately,  continues  to rise throughout the borough. There have been numerous reports of thefts from vehicle and stolen vehicles - mostly mopeds and motorbikes - from within the Trian...

Thames Tideway Tunnel have just re-submitted their Traffic Management plan for the lorry traffic which will take the spoil from the next phase of Super Sewer tunnelling out on Greenwich roads. This period of increased TTT lorry traffic is expected to last for the next three months or so (there'll be another, longer phase of more intense tunnelling starting at the end of the year). You can see this TTT application on the Greenwich Planning Search site, under application no. 19/1499/G. As Mick Delap explains, the new plan replaces the previous one which Planning Committee rejected unanimously at the end of March. And the new proposal looks as if it will affect a far smaller area of the Triangle. TTT's original Traffic Management proposal had their lorries coming onto the Norman Road tunnel site off the A2 via Greenwich South Street, then round past Greenwich Station and the Queen Elizabeth Alms Houses, and up Greenwich High Road, to turn right into Norman Road. They would ...