Greenwich post office rebuild nears completion
A project which has seen the former Greenwich post office and adjacent pharmacy knocked down and rebuilt with new homes is nearing completion.
It’s a modest project on Greenwich High Road but one that makes better use of land compared to its predecessor providing flats above ground level units.
The former building didn’t follow the street’s roof line line unlike its replacement.
I will miss paving space lost as Greenwich is a hotbed of dawdlers and heavy footfall so it helped provide space to duck around some.
As well as the former post office Meridian pharmacy occupied one unit.
When plans were submitted the intention was to reopen the post office and pharmacy and presumably that’s still the case.
The third floor is setback and the structure pretty anonymous all told but does a perfectly adequate job integrating with adjacent buildings.
Bomb damage
This particular spot suffered bomb damage during World War II hence the former post-war post office and adjacent shopping area and car park.
It’s surprising the car park and low rise buildings have lasted so long given this is Greenwich town centre and seconds from Greenwich railway and DLR station.
When post office redevelopment plans were first unveiled it was proposed that a temporary post office be set up on the car park, but that never happened.
There’s also a pretty sizeable amount of vacant land between the site and the station to the rear of buildings facing Greenwich High Road that didn’t see bomb damage.
It’d be no shock to see plans unveiled one day for these areas, much as it wasn’t when the Lewisham college site was last year the other end of Greenwich High Road. I’d often wonder how that never saw proposed changes, and now it has.
