Greenwich Council is set to deliver a £1 million natural flood management scheme at Oxleas Woods, Clothworkers and Bostal Woods. The project aims to mitigate flood risk by utilising natural processes and features within these woodland areas.

The scheme was discussed at the Transport and Place Scrutiny Panel meeting on Thursday 03 July 2025.

The scheme is part of the council's wider Transport Work Programme for 2025/26, which also includes a number of other transport and environmental initiatives, as detailed in the Transport Work Programme Update. These initiatives include:

  • Awarding contracts with Electric Vehicle (EV) providers to provide 1,150 lamp post chargers under Low Emission Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) funding and up to 1,000 charge points
  • Traffic Management Order Consultation and decision relating to the Greenwich to Woolwich Ferry Cycleway
  • Consult and complete detailed design Eltham to Greenwich Cycleway
  • Consult and complete detailed design Shooters Hill to Greenwich Cycleway
  • Consult and make decision Greenwich Town Centre Interim Cycle Network Scheme
  • Consult and start detailed design Woolwich to Thamesmead Cycleway
  • Consult and complete detailed design Cycleway 18
  • Finalise modelling and undertake consultation and design for North to East Greenwich Cycle route
  • Consider making permanent 11 x existing School Streets with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
  • To complete public consultation on up to 21 additional School Streets with ANPR and subject to consideration of the consultation feedback, aim to deliver some by end of 2025/26.
  • Review the suitability of up to 1,000 Healthy Sustainable Streets and publicly consult on them (which includes the introduction of parking controls to clean up poor parking within certain areas, alongside measures such as trees, cycle parking, EV bays and Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems)
  • Deliver road safety schemes at Plumstead High Street (between Wickham Lane and Walmer Terrace) and Western Way Roundabout
  • Developing a borough wide 20mph proposal
  • Complete feasibility design on Superloop Bus Priority Measures, Eltham High Street Bus Priority Measures, Green Lane Bus Priority Measures, Avery Hill Road/Southwood Road Bus Priority Measures, Shooters Hill Bus Priority Measures, Eynsham Drive Bus Priority Measures, Battery Road Bus Priority Measures
  • Committed to deliver up to 39 cycle hangars over the Summer and look to deliver an additional 20 cycle hangars by end of March 2026
  • To consider to deliver 80 bays for Lime bikes
  • Deliver Plumstead Public Realm Project to provide improvements around Plumstead Station
  • Publicly consult on Greenwich Liveable Neighbourhood Scheme
  • Deliver a decision on West and East Greenwich Traffic Management Scheme
  • Deliver the update of Council's Highways Asset Management
  • Deliver the update of Council's Flood Risk Management Strategy
  • Deliver Sustainable Urban Drainage Opportunity Mapping
  • Complete detailed design and consider to deliver £1m scheme to develop a Natural Flood Management scheme at Oxleas Woods, Clothworkers and Bostal Woods
  • Deliver Bus Strategy and Action Plan with TfL
  • Deliver the update of Council's Road Safety Action Plan, Active Travel Action Plan and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Action Plan
  • Support the progress of the DLR extension to Thamesmead and Bus Rapid Transit Project- Woolwich to Thamesmead.
  • Deliver structural improvements to A206 Pettman Crescent Bridge

The council is currently gathering permits and consents for the works, with delivery expected to start in 2025/26, according to the Transport Works Programme Update. While the specific permits and consents required are not detailed in the meeting information, the council is working to secure all necessary approvals to ensure the project proceeds as planned.