SEnine
Local history, one good.. One of SE9’s lesser known Tudor relics, Conduit Head, is receiving
the restoration treatment, SPY learns. The dome-shaped red-brick structure, nestled alongside Holy Trinity Church in Southend Crescent, has long been on English Heritage’s ‘at risk’ register, suffering from neglect and lack of official interest. But now EH and the council have grasped the nettle and are in the process of restoring what remains of the ancient monument.
Checking it out…part one
SPY has received persistent
rumours about
the movements of the supermarket giants and their manoeuvring to fulfil our grocery needs.
He’s told that Sainsbury’s are desperate to move their tanks towards the High Street. The current shop is cramped and ‘over-trading’, which is a technical term for having too many shoppers in too small an area.
Photo by Dawn O'Connor
As part of the process, an information board will be installed alongside giving some account of its history. SPY understands it’s likely to say that Conduit Head housed sluices controlling the water supply for Eltham Palace and its moat; the water being channelled from springs on what is now Eltham Warren Golf Course. Or words to that effect.
And one not so good… SPY has an abiding interest in the beautiful art deco stained glass panels which used to adorn one of the staircases at Eltham Baths. When the baths closed nearly three years ago, they were removed for safe keeping.
It always amazed SPY that the panels weren’t just lifted and embedded in the foyer of the new Eltham Centre. Instead, they were allowed to pass into the hands of the Baths’ new owners London and Quadrant, who plan to level the site and build flats.
Although willing to incorporate them into their new development, SPY understands L&Q are aware that this hardly amounts to keeping the panels in the public gaze and are happy for the council to reclaim them. C’mon folks, let’s have them back and see where they can be shown off in the Centre.
Have your say, your opinion counts
Their latest plans seem to involve expanding the current store in a northerly direction, opening up a High Street frontage. Readers will readily appreciate this will involve bulldozing St Mary’s Arcade and the shops alongside the community centre. SPY thinks it’s a runner…
Eltham park Station Other persistent rumours involve the old Eltham Park station in
Westmount Road, currently in a state of some dereliction. The local word has it that Tesco’s have their eyes on opening a fourth Express store in town.
Feathers are flying among neighbouring traders fearful of the competition.
SPY’s enquiries, however, suggest this is unlikely. Apart from a lack of delivery space and easy parking, Network Rail’s property section claim the work is mainly to prevent it falling onto the track and more work would be needed to make it re-lettable at some stage in the future. SPY thinks it’s not a runner….
Planning Score 2 v 1… SPY has been shown the latest results from planning appeals lodged with the government after being turned down by Greenwich Council.
Two hotly contested developments which have been given the go-ahead are the mobile phone mast at St Saviour’s, Middle Park and a housing development on the old Montbelle
SPY@senine.co.uk School site in New Eltham.
The official verdict on St Saviour’s was that the 7.5m pole would be ‘in keeping with the character of the building and even though it would be visible from a wide area.
On the 43-house development at Montbelle, the inspector ruled that the proposed development ‘would relate well to the existing context and would not have a negative relationship with the immediate surroundings.
One which received the thumbs down was at Friars Mews, off Eltham High Street, a modern development for the elderly. The proposal was to extend the estate with four detached family houses. SPY understands the inspector considered ‘that the current occupiers of the sheltered housing would not feel safe and secure because of the additional traffic from the expected family orientated homes’.
No fi reworks at lights up The Council it seems has decided not to fund the annual fireworks
after the Eltham Lights Up event this year. SPY wonders if they have also cancelled their box at the O2 arena.
Court Road Dry Cleaner Trading Standards Dept has been liaising with the owners of the former dry-cleaners at Court
Yard
regarding access for people who have belongings left inside the property.
Information is available from Simon Ellis, Trading Standards Officer on 020 8921 8143 or email simon.ellis@greenwich.
gov.uk.
Grove Market Version Three SPY has been told that the Grove Market Place is back on the drawing board starting with a consultation held in Passey Place on October 29th & 30th. Plenty of advanced notice there. SPY does wonder why they cannot get the time frames right for something as simple as a consultation.
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