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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...

Ladywell pomade brand wins Hair award

May

2015

Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!Pomade Vendor: Watch your language, young feller, this is a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks.Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two ...

Food Assembly named Best British Food Initiative by BBC

May

2015

Congratulations to the team behind The Ladywell Food Assembly, which has just won the BBC Food and Farming Award for Best Initiative in British Food 2015. The Food Programme explains:"The Food Assembly is a social enterprise that enables direct trade between local food producers and customers through an online market. After buying online, customers pick ...

Ladyspace becomes available

Apr

2015

A unit located inside Ladywell Road arches has been put on the market.Nestled beneath the road bridge, next to the redeveloped adhesives factory, this space is now being marketed as a possible location for a restaurant or cafe, though the estate agents reckon that it actually has planning use class B1 (office / light industrial).It's ...

Ladywell butcher seeks investment

Apr

2015

Prospective Ladywell butchers Heckstall & Smith are seeking to raise a hefty £130,000 from crowdfunding site Seedrs, offering shares in the business from loans starting at £10. They say:"Before the campaign is available to the general public, Seedr give us a small window to get investment from people we’re already in touch with. This shows ...

Lewisham Southwark College launches governor search

Mar

2015

Lewisham Southwark College, which has buildings on Lewisham Way and Deptford Broadway and which is expanding into new premises in Waterloo in 2016, is looking for new governors. They explain:The Board have great ambitions for the College. Under the leadership of its new Chair, Christopher Bilsland OBE, the Board is determined to drive a quality ...

Lovelock: The Subletter Hypothesis

Mar

2015

Studio Lovelock is design company that recently relocated from Shoreditch to Dragonfly Place in Brockley Cross. They are currently looking for someone who wants to rent some of their desk space. Joe Lovelock explains:"Brockley proved to be the perfect spot for us. It’s still really well connected to town so we don’t feel isolated but ...

HopCroft Comes, HopCroft Comes

Mar

2015

Tower House to be redeveloped

Feb

2015

Another piece of the Lewisham jigsaw is the target for redevelopment. Tower House, which has Europe's largest police station abutting it and has variously housed a Yates' Wine Lodge, three kinds of gym and an adult learning centre, is the next major building to be proposed for a residential conversion.A consultation has been launched and ...

TTIP – A little party never killed nobody

Feb

2015

As economic theories go, Ricardian comparative advantage, which says countries should specialise in what they're good at and trade freely to make both countries richer, is about as robust as it gets. And when two economies are comparable in terms of wages and technology, pretty much every argument against free trade vanishes.Nonetheless, TTIP has become ...

Entrepreneurs needed for Lewisham’s new enterprise hubs

Feb

2015

Ladywell's pop-up community will house one of the enterprise hubsLewisham Council is currently looking for entrepreneurs to take up residence in new enterprise hubs in Catford, Deptford and Ladywell, which will open in October this year. They say:"The enterprise hubs will create high quality, fully furnished and serviced work spaces in Catford, Deptford and Ladywell ...