Here is a webcam update on the Woolwich Tesco development:

The project will bring a brand new Tesco to the Woolwich area that would be 80,000 square feet in size. As well as the Supermarket there will also be seven retail spaces available for businesses. Willmott and Dixon group are delivering this construction project.

Planning permission has been submitted to the council for the development of two major supermarkets and three additional retail units on the “land north of woolwich road and west if Gallions Road”. It will be beside the proposed New Travel Lodge hotel that we learned about last year and also behind the retail park where outfitter, H&M, Next, and Maplin are located. Though it remains to be seen if the Marks & Spencer outlet at BP will still remain open as it is a decent sized M&S outlet that sell a lot more than the products available at Asda’s petrol station, yet it is just across the road from the proposed New Store.

See the plans here: http://onlineplanning.greenwich.gov.uk/acolnet/documents/51322_2.pdf

With little or no activity at the Heart of East Greenwich site on Woolwich road, another development just yards away could begin before it does. The development of Blackwall lane, given planning permission before Greenwich Rising launched, will bring new homes, restaurants, offices and other retail to the unused land. The development actually consists of three separate sites all situated in close proximity to each other.

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The approved Hotel as well as proposed residential dwellings on the east facing part of the Greenwich Peninsula namely the Peninsula Quays, are to get a much needed public realm works. Essentially what is being proposed in these outline planning permission documents are better access by roads and by foot for pedestrians. Plans submitted last month mention two roundabouts, new access roads to the planned AEG hotel and other plots, changes to the alignment of the Thames path that would please cyclist

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A new community of homes are being proposed to re develop a disused Warehouse to the rear of Victoria way, in Charlton. This development will see 209, most of which will be affordable housing, being built and will comprise of family sized terraced houses as well as flats. There is a strong emphasis on the landscaping of the area as well as careful planning to shield the development from the noise of the blackwall tunnel approach A102 as well as the train tracks that is used by primarily for industrial purposes.

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The new visitor attraction to the O2 at North Greenwich’s O2 Venue is currently in construction. The shell of structure that will allow people to board the platform is visible. Construction workers can be seen on the roof creating the central viewing platform that sits right at the centre of the O2′s roof.

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Greenwich Rising was at the London Cable Car construction to witness the hoisting of one of the final pieces of the third and final tower, the South Tower, of the Emirates Air Line Cable car, the first in London. The cable car will feature on the Transport for London Tube line that we all know and use and will introduce two new stations as part of the stops at either end of the cable car. At the royal docks it will be called “Emirates Royal Docks” and on the greenwich side “Emirates Greenwich Peninsula”. The Cable car will also ferry across people going to and from either London Olympic 2012 events held at the Royal Victoria Docks Excel Centre and the Peninsula’s O2.

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