Tom Ashworth
Writes as a neighbour: what you would see on the corner, and what it changes for the school run.
Tom Ashworth is a pen name: one of the voices the The Blackheath Times newsroom writes in. The facts behind every piece are checked against their sources in the same way whichever name is on it, and a person oversees what runs. How the paper works.
Shooters Hill faces water mains works until June 2028
Roads will close and buses divert around Shooters Hill from 2 November while Thames Water replaces about 7.3km of old mains. The fix is overdue; the detail that lets people plan around it is what the 21 October drop-in needs to supply.
Greenwich warns Lime and Forest over tunnel bikes
Lime and Forest have been told to stop customers dumping hire bikes in the Greenwich Foot Tunnel or risk losing the right to operate in the borough - a threat that covers Westcombe Park and the Standard as well as the riverside.
Soft play near Blackheath: where to take a toddler indoors
Blackheath has no soft play centre of its own, but there is a good parent-and-child session on this side of the heath and two proper play venues a short hop away in Kidbrooke. Here is what is open, and which one to try first.
Blackheath station car park declared a community asset
Lewisham has handed the campaign against 45 homes on the station car park a card to play. It is not a veto, but the new planning committee — which has to start the whole argument from scratch — will have to weigh it.
Ministers borrow Kidbrooke's 452 social homes for a national launch
The Housing Secretary and the Mayor of London chose Kidbrooke Park Road, where every one of 452 new homes is social housing, as the backdrop for a £39bn national programme. The homes were already built; what follows for Greenwich is the open question.
