Ashburnham Triangle Association

A reminder that this year's ATA Street Party is in the Ashburnham Retreat on Saturday, September 23rd and the fun starts at 1pm. The weather forecast is good!

IMPORTANT MEETING: Tuesday, 12 September 12th 6.30 pm Town Hall, Wellington Street, Woolwich A decision will be made on the retrospective Planning Application for the conversion of 75 Ashburnham Grove (formerly a hostel for 11 residents) into 26 self-contained flats to be let as “supported accommodation” for 26 vulnerable adults and up to 17 infants.  If you are concerned, please attend the meeting. To read the report and agenda go to http://committees.royalgreenwich.gov.uk

 

The Ashburnham Triangle Association is looking for a new chair and secretary to lead the ATA's local events and provide support in organising the annual ATA Street Party. Would you be interested in getting involved? Our Annual general meeting will be in October (TBD) if you would like to find out more.  Please email our current Chair if you'd like to attend or put your name forward for one of the vacant positions.

Greenwich Open Studios was founded in 1978. For two weekends every year the individual studios of artists who live and work in Greenwich are open to the public. With exception of the lockdown year of 2020, it has been an annual event which profiles the very best of visual art in Greenwich. ​This year's Greenwich Open Studios will take place on Sat/Sun 9/10th September and Sat/Sun 16/17th September.  29 artists will be taking part this year and leaflets with details will be coming through your door at the end of August. You can find the leaflet here . Local Ashburnham Triangle residents Jenny Bailey & Caroline Nuttall-Smith will be showing their ceramics with four other members at Greenwich Park Centre, Main Hall, King George Street SE10 8QB. 

The next ATA history group talk will be   on  Thursday 17 August at 7.30  in West Greenwich Library . Please come along and find out about Welsh journalist Gareth Jones who in 1931 exposed the famine in Ukraine and was murdered in 1935 aged 29.   Our speaker is Triangle resident Matt Ginn.     There are two connections with Greenwich. Jones’s aunt and biographer Margaret Siriol Colley worked at the Greenwich Seamen’s hospital during her career as a doctor and as a child our speaker, Matt Ginn, met the very elderly sister of Gareth Jones. She spoke to him about her mother’s time in the Ukrainian town of Hugheskova.  

The ATA has been advised that a planning application is being heard at the next Planning Board Meeting on Tuesday, 18th July 2023 at 6.30pm regarding the former Greenwich Magistrates Court (including rear car park), 7-9 Blackheath Road & 2 Greenwich High Road. The meeting is open to the public and is being streamed live on the Council’s website https://royalgreenwich.public-i.tv/core/portal/home . The agenda and the reports for the meeting, and the relevant procedural information, can be found at  http://committees.royalgreenwich.gov.uk We've also been notified that a retrospective planning application has been made for a change of use from a former hostel at 75 Ashburnham Grove to supported accommodation for vulnerable individuals. More details at  https://planning.royalgreenwich.gov.uk/online-applications/files/010702428A50691C164F9D8D251AD007/pdf/23_2275_F-PLANNING_AND_HERITAGE_STATEMENT-945894.pdf  or the full documentation can be sourced here .