New co-op supermarket opens in Greenwich

Residents living on Greenwich Peninsula finally have more choice of local supermarkets they’ve long asked for after co-op opened today on Chandlers Avenue.

For an area with so many homes the area around Greenwich Millennium Village and homes to the north have lacked much choice. It was often a pretty unpleasant walk (or drive) down to Bugsby’s Way.

The new store is open until 11pm each night. It’s the second to open in Greenwich in recent years after Banning Street near other new builds. A Sainsbury’s is also heading to that area.

It’s somewhat surprising it’s taken so long for more supermarkets to open on the Peninsula. Tesco Express on a heaving gig night wasn’t a great prospect.

Curiously though, the future master plan for thousands more homes also lacks much in the way of commercial space for local supermarkets to cater for 15,000 more homes – and recent revisions reduced planned space for shops.

Over in Charlton and work on a new Lidl at Bugsbys Way is also well underway.

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