“Barratt have contacted Royal Mail regarding a new postbox on Surrey Quays Road. The Collections Office Manager has confirmed that there are already adequate posting facilities within the area so no more postboxes will be considered in the area.”
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Harmsworth Quays: we’re not selling, says council
Following this week’s news that Daily Mail and General Trust is planning to sell its interest in the Harmsworth Quays print works site to British Land, Southwark Council – which owns the freehold to much of the site – has…
Posted in Planning
British Land buys Harmsworth Quays
British Land is to buy the Daily Mail print works at Harmsworth Quays. The company will buy Daily Mail & General Trusts’s part leasehold part freehold interest in the 14.57 acre site. British Land is no stranger to Canada Water…
Posted in Planning
Redriff Primary School could join federation with City of London Academy
More details here.
Posted in Education
Canada Water Library wins architecture award
Canada Water Library, designed by Piers Gough of CZWG Architects, has won a London regional award from the Royal Institute of British Architects. The judges said: The library was built as the civic centerpiece for the regeneration of the area around…
Posted in Literature, Planning
Tibetan former street children perform at Spa Road Buddhist centre
Last week 10 former street-children performed in Kagyu Samye Dzong’s shrine room in front of a full house. The children were brought to London by the ROKPA charity, which runs the orphanage in Kathmandu where the kids have been looked…
Posted in Performing arts, Youth
SE16 people in Queen’s birthday honours list
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours list Rita Beckwith, chief executive of City Cruises – based at Cherry Garden Pier – receives the OBE for services to the leisure and tourism industry and the regeneration of Docklands. Dr Amanda Squires, founder…
Posted in Royalty
Lionel Shriver at Canada Water Library
Southwark resident Lionel Shriver – author of the million selling We Need to Talk About Kevin – enthralled the audience at a packed Canada Water Library on Monday. Lionel talked about her latest novel The New Republic – published last…
Posted in Literature
Update on relocation of Cherry Garden School
Southwark Council has published an update on plans to relocate Cherry Garden School to the Gloucester Primary School site in SE15. The opening of the expanded Cherry Garden School has now been delayed till September 2015.
Greenland Dock on BBC One
If you’re interested in local history, Peter Snow’s programme about Docklands tonight on BBC One promises to include a section on Greenland Dock.
Posted in River Thames
