The Eltham Town Centre Partnership is a community driven organisation made up of the major stakeholders of Eltham Town Centre.
The group has been working and developing since 2004 and in 2008 is working towards becoming a community interest company.
The town centre is defined as from Eltham Palace to Eltham Well Hall Pleasaunce and from the old swimming pools in the lower high street to Elderslie road at the top of the high street. This structure takes in all the major elements that make up a working and social town centre that is also a tourist attraction.
The main elements included are...
Eltham Palace - A major tourist attraction
Several churches making the Town centre a faith centre for Eltham
The bus and rail station
The Pleasaunce - The foremost formal council gardens in Greenwich and historically famous as the residence at different times of William and Mary Roper, John Arnold (of timepieces and longtitude solutions fame) and Edith Nesbitt (The railway children was written there)
The "Eltham Centre" which opened at the end of 2007. The centre comprises Council offices, Gymnasium, Swimming pool, Community college, Citizens advice bureau and a cafe area.
St Mary's Community centre in Eltham High Street - A central space for Eltham community groups and the major hub for organising community centres in the south of the Greenwich borough
On the outskirts of the town centre we have a major campus for the University of Greenwich and we are currently working to build relationships that will create a strong bond between the town centre and the university that will benefit both.
This site is constantly refreshed so please come back from time to time to see what is going on.
As is usual with all such ventures the first few years have been a very hard slog with many doom and gloom voices saying it will never work. Due to the very hard work of a dedicated team, the efforts are now starting to yield some very inspiring results. There is still a long way to go but some very important bits of the jigsaw are coming together and people that want Eltham to be a succesful community are putting their efforts into making a town centre that will be succesful in terms of Infrastructure, business, community, social, the arts and everything else that makes a town centre work.
If you want to sign up for an occasional newsletter that will keep you informed of town centre developments and allow you to join in with discussions on the Eltham Town Centre development, there is a facility to sign up on this page.
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