Ashburnham Triangle Association

To celebrate Car Free Day the beautiful historic Greenwich Town will be opened up for a Saturday of fun for all ages. Expect food, drink, music, games and activities on clean, green streets...and no cars! Why is it happening? The Royal Borough of Greenwich wants to reduce motor vehicle traffic through Greenwich town centre to reduce air pollution and make the streets safer for walking and cycling. The council will monitor traffic and air quality to see what impact Car Free Day has in the area.  Council staff will be on hand to listen to your views so you can help shape their plans. How it works King William Walk and College Approach will be closed to motor vehicles from 6am until 11.30pm. The event will run from 12noon until 6pm. Nelson Road and Creek Road will become two way and marshals will be on site to guide and direct traffic. Parking will be suspended on the affected roads. For more information go to: royal greenwich.gov.uk/carfreeday #CarFreeGreenwich ...

Unfortunately we will be short of gardeners on 29 September, so we need to cancel the session and change the October session from the 27th to earlier in the month. The next session is Saturday 13 October at ten.

Following two previous public consultations and no doubt various meetings with the Local Authority the owners of The Magistrates Court London Hotel Group appear to have dropped their previous architects and communications team and started afresh with a new design team. As such they are inviting local residents to two public exhibitions and presentations with question and answer opportunities to review their designs. The exhibitions are taking place on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th September and will take place in the waiting area at The Magistrates Court as before – further information can be found clicking here . This is a completely separate matter to the current Planning Application that has been submitted by the DoubleTree Hotel on Catherine Grove. Any separate feedback you might have can be directed to our Planning Rep Simon Barrs at si_barrs@hotmail.com which will help form a response on behalf of the Ashburnham Triangle Association.

Whether in retaliation to proposals to redevelop the Magistrates Court into a 300 plus room hotel or just to annoy the neighbours even more, the owners of the now DoubleTree Hilton Hotel (Formerly The Mercure and then The Greenwich) on Catherine Grove in the Triangle have submitted yet another Planning Application to further redevelop the hotel to create an additional 42 rooms over an undercroft car park to the rear of the site. The proposal (yet again another glass box topped extension) will have a hugely detrimental effect on the neighbouring properties on Burgos Grove whose rights of light will be affected by this development due to the proposed location and height resulting in an over massing of the rear of the site. The applicants Daylight and Sunlight Review prepared by CHP Surveyors supports this view by concluding that reductions in daylight experienced by a number of windows within the neighbouring properties would probably not be acceptable. Whilst CHP have offered alte...

We have some truly fantastic raffle prizes on offer this year. For the foodies, we have vouchers for meals out from the Ashburnham Arms, the Guildford Arms, Zeytin, Sticks’n’Sushi, Royal Teas, Richard I, Greenwich Meantime, No. 68 (formerly Buenos Aires café), the Hill, the Prince of Greenwich, the Golden Chippy and others. A lucky winner might win some lovely wines from Davy’s Wine Merchants. Or perhaps you will go home with some lovely flowers from the Flower Hut? For beauty lovers we have been donated a basket of luxury skin products courtesy of Duncan’s pharmacy and vouchers for skin and hair treatments at Diava’s Studio, the Nova Aesthetic Clinic, Sarah Hair & Beauty and others. With big thanks to Ellie Brown we also have on offer yoga class vouchers for the Greenwich Pilates Studio. Or perhaps you could try a violin lesson with Triangle resident and professional violinist Teodora Ilieva? For the adventurous, did you know that London’s best indoor archery club is in the Tr...

Joining the Street Party again this year is the HAROLD FERGUS BAND. Greenwich locals the Harold Fergus Band are influenced by The Beatles, America, John Martyn and Oasis. Their music is a blend of melodic pop and folk, with their gentle niche being the way they blend catchy hooks with traditional folk. The music makes for easy listening whether you are being lulled by one of the band’s original songs or by a unique cover of a classic hit.