2013 - Page 143 of 173 - Brockley SE4

Featured local business - Clubtek

Forest

SE23

Hill

I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Brockley police station to close, but Lewisham officer numbers up as Brockley faces police shake-up

Mar

2013

The new London-wide Police and Crime Plan has confirmed that Brockley Police Station will shut as part of a closure programme for 60 police desks across the capital.Meanwhile, police numbers in the borough will rise by 2015, although not by as much as originally indicated. The Mayor had originally claimed 54 new police positions would ...

Philly cheese … or …

Mar

2013

According to research just published by Temple University, Philadelphia, in their publication Landscape and Urban Planning, there is some evidence to suggest that the presence of trees and green space helps to reduce the incidence of assaults and robberies. Another reason for celebrating our leafy corner of Lewisham! Read more here: http://grist.org/news/do-trees-fight-crime-in-philadelphia/

Halcyon days of … March 5th

Mar

2013

Whilst we are all languishing in these dreary, icy days of late March, waiting for some sun and warmth, I thought I'd remind you of what's to come with these pictures of those long gone days of 5th March when we basked in ... 10 degrees, and the ornamental plums in Manor Avenue started to show ...

Brockley’s “Invisible House”

Mar

2013

The architects behind a planned "invisible eco house" on the corner of Geoffrey Road and Manor Avenue have written about their design here. The Jak Studio team say:Last year Kevin and Mac approached us to look into the possibility of realising their dream to build upon a small plot of land with derelict garages they ...

Police Blitz Drug Dealers

Mar

2013

As part of a London-wide operation against drug dealing and cannabis farms, Brockley SNT (@MPSBrockleySgt) has been active this morning in a series of raids that have seen two arrests and a quantity of class A and B drugs seized. [...]

Rogue Brockley landlord fined for stuffing property

Mar

2013

Lewisham Council reports (via Cllr Foxcroft):An unlicensed landlord has been prosecuted by Lewisham Council for failing to comply with House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) regulations.The prosecution was brought against Mustafa Kemal Mustafa who did not apply for an HMO licence on a property in Millmark Grove, Brockley.An inspection of the property revealed at least ten ...

Terry Liddle (1948-2012): SE London Socialist & Secularist

Mar

2013

There's a memorial event next month (20th April) at Conway Hall for Terry Liddle, the veteran SE London radical who died in November 2012.Terry grew up in Eltham, and lived for many years up until his death at 23 Sowerby Close on the Mottingham Estate. He died from a stroke at the age of 64 ...

Neighbourhood Policing Shake-Up

Mar

2013

Lewisham Borough Commander Chief Superintendent Russell Nyman spoke to alternativeSE4 about how the Mayor’s Police and Crime Plan is set to change community policing in Lewisham. [...]

A History of Brockley – Part 4: Evolution becomes revolution

Mar

2013

This is the fourth part of Darrell Spurgeon's history of Brockley (click on the History tag for the series). Brockley RiseSouth of Crofton Park, Brockley Road ends and becomes Brockley Rise. The northernmost part of Brockley Rise remained largely rural, even though Brockley Farm had closed in 1870, until the opening of Honor Oak Park ...

Charlotte Turner Overhaul

Mar

2013

The Deptford Dame reports that Charlotte Turner Gardens, on the Greenwich / Deptford border, is to receive a makeover. She says:The improvements are quite exciting - I particularly like the idea of planting an orchard and some cherry trees. More of this kind of thing please - perhaps Lewisham Homes should consider planting fruit trees ...