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Signs of despair for Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
by Darryl
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Back in July, this website featured the baffling new phase of Greenwich Millennium Village,
taking shape in front of Greenwich Yacht Club, but which will have an
aggregates yard, a recycling depot and a travellers' camp as neighbours.
Its construction also led to the closure of part of the road to
the yacht club, Peartree Way, and some signs being shifted around (as well as some signs being mis-spelled). The
direction signs on the Thames Path were moved in June, presumably by Greenwich
Millennium Village's contractors, and left pointing in the wrong direction.
It's now September, and both signposts still point in the wrong
direction - including the one for Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park, itself under threat from Greenwich Millennium Village's
long-term plans for a 20-storey tower which would overshadow it,
blocking out vital sunlight. Visitors are sent heading off towards Charlton -
when they only need to walk a couple of hundred yards west instead.
The ecology park depends on support and visitors to survive - so
a sign pointing in entirely the wrong direction isn't useful, to say the least.
It's not as if Greenwich Council hasn't been told. I know myself - I first told
a local councillor 12 weeks ago, and followed it up with an email nine weeks
ago. Seven weeks ago, I had a reply saying arrangements were in place for the
signs to be fixed.
Nothing has happened since. So since Greenwich Council clearly
isn't bothered, the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park team have taken matters
into their own hands...
We'll return at Christmas to see if the council's done anything.
Incidentally, a public notice appeared in its weekly propaganda
paper, Greenwich Time, about a month ago giving permission for the
"temporary closure" of the end Peartree Way from 13 August (the same
day the paper was dated) - even though the road had been fenced off since 24
June and later dug up.
Nothing's appeared on
the street itself. That basically means Greenwich Millennium Village's
developers had closed the road illegally - but no action appears to have been
taken. A small issue in the big scheme of things, but it says volumes about how
closely Greenwich Council keeps an eye on developers in its borough
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