Lewisham proposes whatever the opposite of a NIMBY’s charter is

Lewisham Council is considering a proposal to cut costs by reducing the quality of local consultation around planning applications.The Public Accounts Select Committee is due to consider ideas proposed submitted by Head of Planning, John Miller to:Cease written notification of planning applications to neighbours of proposed developments. It was also being proposed to stop amenity ...

Interview with Cafe No 178

Few locals will have failed to notice the relatively recent addition of Café No 178 on the stretch of New Cross Road that marks the end of... [...]

Blythe Hill Birdwatch, January 25th

“Baby and child First Aid course” in February 2014

Burns Night + Scottish Martyrs at Woolwich

It's Burns Night on Saturday, something I always try and celebrate with some Islay whisky (I got a bottle of Laphroaig for Christmas), a vegetarian haggis and my dad's old bagpipe chanter from when he played in a band on Islay in the early 1950s. Plus my dad's collected poems of Robert Burns that I ...

Cutty Sark becomes a theatre

The Evening Standard reports:London’s newest theatre was today unveiled in the hold of the Cutty Sark.Comedians Alan Davies and Ross Noble, round-the-world yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and sailing enthusiast Griff Rhys Jones are among the inaugural line-up of performers in the 100-seat venue at King William Walk, Greenwich.Performances begin on January 29. Details at: rmg.co.uk/cuttysarkClick ...

Broca Food Market renews shop search

The BFM's planned move from their home on Mantle Road to Brockley Cross has been scrapped, but they aim to move as soon elsewhere in SE4 once a new tenant's been found for their current unit.Erin says:"BFM needs a smaller retail footprint with a more space for a kitchen. I've found another property in Brockley ...

Roger Lloyd-Pack/Trigger – ‘Sleepless in Peckham’

The actor Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944-2014), who died last week, was as North London as they come: a Spurs supporter born in Islington and died in Kentish Town. But his most famous part was of course as Trigger, the Peckham road sweeper in 'Only Fools and Horses'. He appeared in the first episode in 1981, and ...

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