Brockley Cross Archives - Page 6 of 7

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...

Birds’ threatened conversion opposed

May

2014

Renovation work has begun on-site at 253-255 Malpas Road, the buildings that were once home to Birds Dress Agency. The developers are seeking to convert the building to residential use, a plan strongly opposed by the Brockley Cross Action Group and the Brockley Society.A planning application has been submitted to the Council the alteration and ...

Artist Village Brockley

Apr

2014

Artist Village, Brockley is a new studio in Brockley Cross, created as part of the Dragonfly Place development. The Artist Village team has the use of most of the first floor of the whole site for nearly two years, allowing them to create 32 brand new studios ranging from 120 sq feet to 400 sq ...

Digital divide hits Brockley Cross

Mar

2014

"The Brockley 27" in classic "angry local residents" pose for the GuardianA few months ago, a friend who moved into the Dragonfly Place live-work development in Brockley Cross, mentioned that the residents were struggling to get any phone or internet access and we might look into the subject. Well, we should have, but we didn't.Now, ...

BXAG opposes car-buncle

Mar

2014

The Brockley Cross Action Group - a community group initially founded to help improve the state of this blighted junction - has confirmed its opposition to the current plans to redevelop the Brockley Cross car dealership.The scheme is a hideous mishmash of architectural concepts and the developers are trying to squeeze too much on to ...

Brockley Cross development plans revised

Mar

2014

Parkhill Group, the owners of the Brockley Cross car lot, have submitted a revised application to turn it into flats.The project has gone through a number of different iterations - all of them ugly. This one, produced, the developers say, in response to feedback from the Brockley Society, is perhaps the ugliest yet.The car yard is ...

Broca Food Market renews shop search

Jan

2014

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 ...

Brockley Cross site to let

Jan

2014

Louise writes:After lots of Brockley Central debate about the shortage of space for opening businesses in the area, I noticed there's now a sign on the recently-closed Brockley Cross Supermarket from the landlord, asking people to ring him if they're interested in renting it. I thought people might want to check it out.

Brockley Cross Supermarket gone

Dec

2013

The Brockley Cross corner shop has closed for good. The area is not short of alternatives - most obviously the neighbouring Londis - but they were BC's preferred option locally and their departure now leaves this blighted bit of street scape looking pretty empty.

Autumn Ice Cream at the Broca Food Market

Oct

2013

The first ice cream extravaganza of the Mantle Road-era Broca Food Market will be on October 20th. Glacée-guru Joan says the ice cream will be made "mostly with locally sourced and foraged fruits including wild elderberries, blackberries and rosehips, crabapples and garden pears and apples."

The Broca Food Market’s big move

Oct

2013

Erin from the Broca writes:We are moving the Broca Food Market over to Brockley Cross, to the shop currently occupied by Birds Dress Agency on Malpas Road.We're aiming to be in and open by middle of December. The Birds ladies are having a sale now and will be leaving on November 22nd. The Mantle Road property ...