GREENWICH will be getting a new temporary “bicycle cafe” this Summer.
The new cafe and bike storage facility is being set up at the corner of Waller Way and Greenwich High Road on the new Movement scheme by developers Cathedral Group and will be open in time for the Olympics.
The cafe will be designed by artist Morag Myerscough and created in partnership with the Greenwich Cooperative Development Agency. Cathedral memorably created a cafe in a train carriage at its Deptford scheme, The Deptford Project.
The plans were outlined to residents who attended a community liaison evening on Tuesday evening – the first of what will be quarterly meetings.
With the former industrial estate now cleared from the site, work can begin in earnest on the Movement development which will include 180 apartments, hundreds of student homes, two new hotels, a fitness club, a permanent bike cafe and business start-up space. The homes and student accommodation are due to complete in the Summer and Autumn of 2014.
As part of its Section 106 agreement with the council, Cathedral are building a new larger extension on West Greenwich House.
Cathedral Group’s Development Executive, Alex Philips, gave his “personal pledge” that the West Greenwich House extension would be completed within a year of the existing extension being demolished.
The new development will also include a new pedestrianised road through the centre with the new street name yet to be confirmed.
What is a bicycle cafe exactly, is it a place to get your bike fixed or an actual cafe which is bike friendly? Either would be good for SE10 though the latter, if its anything like the cool Deptford Project, would get my vote!
Glad you like it FFBB
Its more like a bike friendly cafe, although I understand the permanent structure will have some thing like a drive thru bike service.same as for cars but less pollution and more virtuous….!
Developer said that bike storage is a part of it too – a place to leave your bike while you go off to do work/shopping/whatever
Fatty – take a look at Look Mum, No Hands in Old Street: http://www.lookmumnohands.com/