As part of its Draft Local Plan consultation, Greenwich Council has revealed the sites around the borough it has identified as potentials for residential development.
Some of them are associated with approved planning applications, while others don’t have any specific proposals associated with them yet.
Below are some of the big planning applications as well as potential proposals that will be coming to Greenwich in 2026 and beyond.
Greenwich
Plans have been submitted to the council to demolish the commercial building at 141 to 143 Woolwich Road and build student accommodation.
The new structure would consist of three interconnected buildings of three to seven storeys in height and it would house 190 students.
The proposal builds on a previously approved planning application which sought to build 58 apartments plus commercial space within a similar building on the same site. Greenwich Council considers both plans “acceptable”, stating: “The site will provide an opportunity to enhance the urban character of this section of Woolwich Road, providing a welcoming public realm and amenities.”
Charlton
Greenwich Council hopes that the ASDA Charlton Superstore site will be redeveloped into a mixed residential and commercial development in the coming years.
The supermarket will be retained along with customer parking within the new development that will contain 750 homes.
Woolwich
The council will demolish the Waterfront Leisure Centre having opened Woolwich Waves and it hopes to sell the land to developers to build housing.
The authority believes the 2-acre site by the river can deliver 310 homes in a tower block up to 20 storeys.
Regarding Woolwich Waves—which opened this month—Greenwich Council approved plans to add more homes to the residential offering of the leisure centre project in November. The number of flats has increased from 482 to 557, and the affordable housing provision has also increased from 35 per cent to 38 per cent, and all of it will be socially rented.
Councillors have expressed hopes that construction on the tower blocks (the tallest of which will be 20 storeys) will begin shortly, hopefully in 2026.
Plans to convert the office building of Riverside House in Beresford Street into a 209 home development were given the green light in 2021, but construction is yet to begin. The council hopes this scheme can still be delivered, or that 580 student or hostel bedrooms could be built instead.
Greenwich Council is yet to make a decision on plans to build 575 homes on a site by Plumstead Road currently used as a Crossrail works site as well as a vent shaft to the Elizabeth Line which runs underneath it.
The council is hoping that half of the homes delivered would be affordable units, but within the current ‘Armourer’s Court’ plans it is only 35 per cent by habitable room.
There are several other development sites in Woolwich that the council hopes will deliver homes over the next few years, including a patch of land behind The Woolwich Centre, the redevelopment of Grade II listed University of Greenwich Woolwich Campus building and its surrounding properties, and transforming a former military building on the south east corner of Woolwich Common into a 70-bed care home.
Eltham
Greenwich Council wants to demolish Eltham’s Mecca Bingo Hall and have 90 homes built on its plot.
Kidbrooke
It is hoped that the next phases of the Kidbrooke Village development will also commence in the next few years. Phase five will deliver 530 homes as well as a public park and nature pavilion, while phase six will contribute to the delivery of 860 homes and some commercial and community floorspace.
