Today weโve publised our manifesto for the #Greenwich Council elections on Thursday 7th May. Vote for your Local Conservative candidates and youโll get hard-working local councillors who will always ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐
https://t.co/XUOpxrUKlm
๐ณ๏ธIt's the local elections on Thursday 7th May. Here's why @MattHartley100@RogerMTester and @LukeWarren_97 are standing to serve as your local Conservative councillors for Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham for the next 4 years
Greenwich Labour Leader Anthony Okereke is forcing through pre-election changes to hinder residents+ Opposition councillors from asking Qs & holding @Royal_Greenwich to account
Heโs had 4 years of difficult Qs - this political thuggery is his response.
Joint statement ๐
Greenwich Councilโs Cabinet just voted through their Play Centre cuts, including ending the current staffed Play Centre service at Coldharbour. Weโve submitted a formal challenge to the decision, which will now receive scrutiny at public hearing @ Town Hall. Date to follow!
Some good news today - thanks to the 100+ residents who responded to our letters and submitted objections, the proposed 7-unit HMO at 71 Great Harry Drive has been ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ by planning officers ๐ Thank you all! ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ญ
This is the last weekend for objections to Greenwich Labourโs plan to END the Coldharbour Adventure Play Centre service - please take part in the consultation and tell the Council we need to keep a STAFFED Play Centre as part of the new Community Hub ๐
https://t.co/nK1oYA5a9u
Last month (during my paternity leave) my colleague Councillor @RogerMTester chaired a public meeting on need to Save the Coldharbour Play Centre service - time and again the community has made their views clear to the Council just how vital this service is. Theyโre not listening
.@RogerMTester and I have been making this point all year to Labour councillors at the Town Hall - these are Play CENTRES, not just playgrounds. Itโs astonishing that the Leader of the Council and Labour MP are dismissing the Coldharbour service and the work staff do easily.
We've organised a ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ on October 22nd 6pm - come along to support the campaign to ๐๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฅ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ก๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ from Greenwich Council's "review". More info contact @RogerMTester who is chairing this - details ๐
๐๐ซ๐๐๐ง๐ฐ๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฌ... If they spent more of their time on running the Council, & less time fighting like ferrets in a sack, maybe they wouldn't be ยฃ15.6m overspent 3 months into the financial year https://t.co/EFuJDscp7k
Thereโs sadly been a new flurry of HMO applications in our ward in the last week - for 71 Great Harry Drive, 29 Lavidge Road, 872 Sidcup Rd - for details of how to object see Councillors @RogerMTester & @MattHartley100โs FB update ๐ Letters going out too
https://t.co/uH9wXXeNjr
Sorry but this is ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ from #Greenwich Council. First Labour councillors blame Plumstead & Woolwich traffic chaos on Transport for London. Now its due to a lorry fire inโฆ *checks notes*โฆ Essex ๐ค
These are RBG works, delivered by RBGโs contractor. ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐.
๐I'm pleased the Leader of the Council has seen sense + finally reached out to Army on this ๐ though it shouldn't have taken weeks of pressure. I really hope RBG will be much more open on the Equestrian Centre from now on. My comments on @greenwich_wire https://t.co/IraaiABi1Q
More on the news that Greenwich Council has agreed to extend its parking consultation ๐ฏ๐ I asked Cabinet Member:
How she plans to re-build trustโ
How much opposition would mean a CPZ is abandonedโ
To stop misleading claims on parking permit costsโ๏ธ
https://t.co/O1Cea46X7D
๐ The question no #Greenwich Labour councillor seems able to answer: how can the results of their โListening phaseโ in February 2025 have been used to โinform the designsโ of parking plans that were drawn upโฆ. in June 2024? ๐
๐บ The Police Base's future is now secure, but #Coldharbour Adventure Play Centre is still under threat from Greenwich Council's 'Play Centres Review'. Councillors @RogerMTester and @MattHartley100 have been trying to get certainty on this for local parents ๐
I've been contacted by lots of residents in areas affected by #Greenwich Council's parking plans. So colleagues & I have put together this 3-step ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ guide which we hope helps๐
https://t.co/loA0hP2UrJ #Charlton#Blackheath#Kidbrooke#Plumstead#ShootersHill