Cars Archives - 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 Streets

Jun

2018

Let's Push Things Forward: The Streets exists to fight this kind of abuseBrockley Streets is a new community campaign group dedicated to improving local roads for pedestrians and cyclists.By encouraging better road design and re-routing traffic, The Streets want to stop cars prangin' out or squeezing down roads that don't fit but they know it. ...

Hilly Fields CPZ proposed

May

2018

Lewisham's neverendum on CPZ's continues. This time, the Council has proposed a zone that covers the back streets of Ladywell and a patch of the Brockley Conservation Area that runs from Hilly Fields to Lewisham Way down Tressillian Road.Mike writes:"Lewisham Council are consulting yet again for a Ladywell CPZ extension, calling it the 'Ladywell Study ...

St John’s CPZ causes knock-on problems

Nov

2017

With grim inevitability, residents just outside the new CPZ in St John's are now complaining that it is having a knock-on effect on their streets. James writes:"New parking restrictions in St. John’s causing a nightmare for us residents at the north end of Wickham, Breakspears etc... I literally see cars stalking down the road each ...

BMW flips on St Asaph Road

Oct

2017

The News Shopper reports:"A man had to be cut free from a BMW after a car being chased by an unmarked police car crashed into it in Brockley."Police said officers chased a Mini Cooper from Pomeroy Street to St Asaph Road shortly before noon yesterday (October 25) after it failed to stop when it was ...

Crofton Park refresh

Aug

2017

Lewisham Council has a launched public consultation in relation to its plans for the Crofton Park stretch of Brockley Road.The proposals are to:Narrow the available road width widening footways allowing for inset parking, disabled parking and electrical vehicle charging bays to be constructedRaise the carriageway level (raised junctions) locally in three areas to reduce vehicle ...

MOT garage closes to make way for more homes

Jul

2017

The Geoffrey Road MOT garage is closedThe MOT garage on Geoffrey Road has been closed and boarded up, to make way for a new housing development, which is yet to earn planning permission. The garage has lived with the Sword of Damocles hanging over its head for years and the development has gone through a number ...

Please do not park your car in the middle of our park

Jul

2017

The latest in an occasional series about people who park wherever they feel like in Brockley. Tom writes:"I live near Hilly Fields and love the park. I went for my evening run yesterday and came across these guys. I'm not normally one to get involved in moaning on internet but thought this didn't seem right ...

Brockley Cross Audi showroom closes

Apr

2017

@BrockleyCentral @MPSLewisham @LewishamCouncil it's gone. Hooray! Thanks whoever sorted it 👍🏻 pic.twitter.com/7mroDd9vGT— Ben Pearce (@HighStreetBen) April 6, 2017 @BrockleyCentral Car is gone & t/ tree is - staggeringly - still alive. My neighbour had been tending it before t/ accident and she knows :) pic.twitter.com/qEkPbMQbdt— Katy Cooper (@DecSop1) April 6, 2017

Blight rider

Mar

2017

Perhaps naively, I assumed that if a bellend drives a car into a tree and abandons it in the middle of the pavement in one of Brockley's main thoroughfares, that the car would be removed within days, perhaps hours. Instead, this car has been left in Brockley Cross for weeks, for the community to work ...

Then tell me future boy, who is the president of the United States in 2017?

Feb

2017

Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads! We need a pick-up truck. Another addition to our collection of eccentric Brockley vehicles, this DeLorean looks like it might have played a starring role in the Secret Cinema production of Back to the Future in 2015.