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Daily Photo: 6/6/2012 – Street parties

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Thanks to local tweeter AB3 for this photo from a Jubilee street party on Churchfields, which was organisated by the St Alfege Neighbourhood Residents Association.


Another from Churchfields


Final one from Churchfields.


Street party in Westcombe Park Road, taken by Neil Sharman.


Thanks to Rev Malcolm Torry from this photo of the GMV street party in John Harrison Way.

Big Lunch Greenwich
A photo from the Big Jubilee Lunch at the Old Royal Naval College.

Finally, here’s what happened at a street party in Heathwood Gardens, Charlton…

John Roan School redevelopment gets go-ahead

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GREENWICH Councillors  backed plans to redevelop John Roan secondary school at a Planning Board meeting last week.

John Roan’s Lower School in Westcombe Park Road will be demolished and replaced with a brand new school building, while the historic Upper School is to be refurbished and have new covered courtyards.

Parents of the children who attended the meeting were left angry by having to wait through the lengthy Shooters Hill Equestrian Centre planning application, calling it a “disgrace” when councillors finally got to consider the John Roan scheme late on Thursday night.

But frustration at the meeting’s agenda turned to jubilation at its decision, as councillors on the Planning Board supported the proposals.

The plans, which Greenwich.co.uk first reported on in August, received the unanimous support of councillors.

One John Roan student impressed councillors with an impassioned plea to back the proposal, with Cllr Hayley Fletcher telling her: “You are a credit to your school and I hope the new school buildings are a credit to you.”

Plans for redeveloped John Roan School revealed

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PLANNING applications for the redevelopment of John Roan School have been submitted, along with proposals to temporarily move hundreds of pupils to a former school in Royal Hill.

The John Roan Lower School in Westcombe Park Road is set to be completely demolished and replaced with a new 7,845 m2 campus. Using a “marketplace” design concept, the redeveloped site will comprise of a main academic block and a dedicated sports block with state of the art facilities and a drama studio.

A new “entrance plaza” will be created for “public safety” and to “minimize disruption along Westcombe Park Road.”

The Grade-II listed Upper School in Maze Hill will be refurbished throughout with the original building “returned to its former glory”. The gymnasium will be converted to a dedicated 6th form facility and new ICT facilities will be added.

Two previously infilled courtyards will be opened up to create new “covered dining, social and break-out areas.”

The project, which already secured funded from the Building Schools for the Future initiative, could begin early next year and take two years to complete.

To enable teaching to carry on throughout the redevelopment, it is also proposed that about 400 year-10 and year-11 students be temporarily “decanted” to the Victorian school building in Royal Hill, Greenwich.

The school is named after its founder, John Roan, who died in the seventeenth century and bequeathed money for the education of the “poor town-bred children of Greenwich”.

The school has had various incarnations at several sites for boys and girls in the borough, before coming together in a new mixed Comprehensive school in the early 1980s.

Controversial plans to move the John Roan School to Greenwich Peninsula were dropped in 2009.


Illustration of the interior of the new Westcombe Park Road site


Illustration of a newly covered courtyard at the refurbished Maze Hill site

School in Royal Hill, Greenwich
Victorian school in Royal Hill where it is proposed that year-10 and year-11 students be relocated to while the John Roan redevelopment takes place.