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Greenwich: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Royal Borough of Greenwich: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000011.

Council website · Publication scheme

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Greenwich for 2026–27: £1,597.35 of a £2,107.86 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 2 opened (2 new provision), 0 closed

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s table has no figures for Greenwich for 2026–27: “RA return not received in time for publication.” The table

Greenwich in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population
299,528 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age
35 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head
£29,396 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay
£785 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs
29.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count
5.6% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price
£462,589 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
10.1 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy
57.5 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy
58.5 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions
2.5 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband
89.9% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers
101.2 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses
11,225 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

55 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, with a majority. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 35, Green Party (E&W) 13, Conservative and Unionist 6, Reform UK 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 55 councillors, by ward
  • Gaumaya Ranabhat (Labour Party) — Abbey Wood
  • Jummy Dawodu (Labour Party) — Abbey Wood
  • Tom Creswell (Labour Party) — Abbey Wood
  • Christine St. Matthew-Daniel (Labour Party) — Blackheath Westcombe
  • Leo Fletcher (Labour Party) — Blackheath Westcombe
  • Mariam Lolavar (Labour Party) — Blackheath Westcombe
  • Bren Albiston (Labour Party) — Charlton Hornfair
  • Jessica Holland (Green Party (E&W)) — Charlton Hornfair
  • David Gardner (Labour Party) — Charlton Village & Riverside
  • Jo Van Den Broek (Labour Party) — Charlton Village & Riverside
  • George Edgar (Green Party (E&W)) — East Greenwich
  • Jo Land (Green Party (E&W)) — East Greenwich
  • Patrick Ives (Green Party (E&W)) — East Greenwich
  • Jane Dickenson (Labour Party) — Eltham Page
  • Paul Banks (Reform UK) — Eltham Page
  • Gabriella Olumide (Labour Party) — Eltham Park & Progress
  • Jeremy Fraser (Labour Party) — Eltham Park & Progress
  • Charlie Davis (Conservative and Unionist) — Eltham Town & Avery Hill
  • Patricia Greenwell (Conservative and Unionist) — Eltham Town & Avery Hill
  • Rob Sayers (Conservative and Unionist) — Eltham Town & Avery Hill
  • Calum Mulligan (Labour Party) — Greenwich Creekside
  • Tillie Muir (Labour Party) — Greenwich Creekside
  • Karin Tearle (Green Party (E&W)) — Greenwich Park
  • Stacy Smith (Green Party (E&W)) — Greenwich Park
  • Austin McGrath (Green Party (E&W)) — Greenwich Peninsula
  • Claire Selby (Green Party (E&W)) — Greenwich Peninsula
  • Denise Scott-McDonald (Labour Party) — Greenwich Peninsula
  • John Fahy (Labour Party) — Kidbrooke Park
  • Nikki Thurlow (Labour Party) — Kidbrooke Park
  • Lewis Hurst (Labour Party) — Kidbrooke Village & Sutcliffe
  • Sandra Bauer (Labour Party) — Kidbrooke Village & Sutcliffe
  • Olu Babatola (Labour Party) — Middle Park & Horn Park
  • Rachel Taggart-Ryan (Labour Party) — Middle Park & Horn Park
  • Luke Warren (Conservative and Unionist) — Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham
  • Matt Hartley (Conservative and Unionist) — Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham
  • Roger Tester (Conservative and Unionist) — Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham
  • Adel Khaireh (Labour Party) — Plumstead & Glyndon
  • Jit Ranabhat (Labour Party) — Plumstead & Glyndon
  • Tammy Aghedo (Labour Party) — Plumstead & Glyndon
  • David Monteith (Green Party (E&W)) — Plumstead Common
  • Leonie Barron (Green Party (E&W)) — Plumstead Common
  • Stewart Christie (Green Party (E&W)) — Plumstead Common
  • Max Green (Green Party (E&W)) — Shooters Hill
  • Tamasin Rhymes (Green Party (E&W)) — Shooters Hill
  • Averil Lekau (Labour Party) — Thamesmead Moorings
  • Femi Solola (Labour Party) — Thamesmead Moorings
  • Jahdia Spencer (Labour Party) — West Thamesmead
  • Nathan Baffour-Awuah (Labour Party) — West Thamesmead
  • Jackie Smith (Labour Party) — Woolwich Arsenal
  • Joshua Ayodele (Labour Party) — Woolwich Arsenal
  • Sam Littlewood (Labour Party) — Woolwich Arsenal
  • Anthony Okereke (Labour Party) — Woolwich Common
  • Elizabeth Ige (Labour Party) — Woolwich Common
  • Asli Mohammed (Labour Party) — Woolwich Dockyard
  • Raja Zeeshan (Labour Party) — Woolwich Dockyard

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

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Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.