Ikea delay opening of Greenwich store

Thanks to eagle eyed reader Sarkies_Proxy on Twitter, who’s always on the ball with local events for this post after he highlighted that Ikea have quietly slipped out news of a delay in the opening date of their Greenwich branch.

Last autumn when construction was in its early stages they were aiming for completion and opening by the end of this year – preferably before Christmas.

Now their website has an opening date of early 2019 which means missing the Christmas period and Boxing Day sales.

In practice this could only mean a few weeks delay and not much more of a wait for your meatball, hot dog and billy bookcase fix.

Then again who knows if it will drag on longer. The Brocklebank retail park just to the east containing Aldi, Primark, Mothercare and Next finally opened late last year around 18 months behind schedule.

I recently covered how building work was looking as well as the street network in surrounding areas which many fear will become (even more) gridlocked.

This give Greenwich Council more time to sort out the atrocious roads and pedestrian routes in the area. This should be a nice guide to use:

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