Author Archives: Spencer Drury

About Spencer Drury

Spencer was one of the three Councillors for Eltham North Ward between 2002 and 2022. He lost his Council seat in the May 2022 elections and now occasionally contributes to debates on local issues.

Sainsbury’s applies for late licence to serve alcohol

Residents might be interested to know that Sainsbury’s in Eltham have applied for a late licence to serve alcohol until midnight from Monday to Sunday.  This is an extension from the 11pm which it is currently allowed to serve alcohol until and unfortunately, it appears there is no clear explanation for this application in the… Read More »

Mayor of London is holding up Eltham High Street works

At the Meeting of Royal Borough of Greenwich Council last night (Wednesday 19th July) Labour’s Cabinet Member for Transport admitted that the failure to install a new pedestrian crossing at the top of Eltham High Street at the junction with Footscray Road is the result of delays by the Mayor of London’s (Sadiq Khan) Transport… Read More »

Council admits to failings over weeds once again

At the July meeting of the Full Council, the Labour Cabinet Member for the Environment offered apologies on behalf of her Department and admitted to being personally upset by the situation with regard to weeds in answer to a direct question from me on the subject. I want to be clear that I think this… Read More »

Eltham Park Controlled Parking Zones on hold?

I am increasingly concerned that Greenwich Council has delayed the publication of plans for extensions to the Eltham Park Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) as the future for the scheme slips into chaos and uncertainty. Over the course of the last two years, Eltham Park’s residents have been subject to a number of consultations about the… Read More »

The curious sale of pavements, roads, verges and a path

Today at an auction thirteen bits of land around Crookston, Dairsie, Glenesk and Dumbreck roads were sold for £500. The plots (although I think this might be overplaying the size of some of them) seem to be leftover bits of land from when Bilton built the houses around the area being sold off for reasons which… Read More »

Still no car park for the Coronet

At June’s Council meeting I asked the Labour Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Transport once again about why no car park had been built outside the old Coronet cinema building to alleviate parking problems for neighbours and customers of Kinesis Gym and neighbouring shops. The answer was as follows: “I can confirm that the Council… Read More »