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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Student accommodation plan for Mercy Terrace

Jul

2014

10-14 Mercy Terrace (a light industrial unit tucked under the bridge in Ladywell), is to be redeveloped and the architects commissioned to design its replacement are inviting people's views on their proposals. Ladywell Village Improvement Group reports:Goldcrest Architects proposals includes flexible office space for small and medium businesses on the ground floor with high quality ...

Albertine’s stables and function room targeted for residential conversion

Jul

2014

Developers have lodged planning applications to convert the old stables at the back of the pub formerly known as Albertine's (237 Lewisham Way) into new homes, and to convert the first-floor function room into residential use.Although the proposed new homes look OK, the stables (which you can see here) would be a bit of a loss. ...

Lewisham braced for tailbacks as Gateway construction begins in earnest

Jul

2014

Indicative massing of the buildings and road layout that will replace the roundaboutMajor delays are expected on Lewisham's roads today as work begins on the remodelling of Lewisham town centre's layout, which will result in the replacement of the roundabout with a new road system, to allow for the development of the massive Lewisham Gateway ...

Number One Mantle Road nears completion

Jul

2014

Number One Mantle Road is nearing completion. It will create create nine new apartments and ground-level retail space.If filled, the retail space will create a bit of a bridge between Bohemia Hair at one end of Mantle Road and the Broca Food Market at the other.It's 'in keeping' with the other stuff that's been thrown ...

The Unacceptable Face of Newisham

Jul

2014

Just opposite Model Market is Riverdale House, formerly a Citigroup office block. Having been converted into 137 apartments, it's now being marketed around the world via this video. Every line of the script - delivered by a 'The Price is Right' voiceover artist - is funny.With thanks to Joe for spotting it.

133 Pepys Road

Jul

2014

The new, double-fronted designMark Dyson writes:Enclosure is the architecture practice for the proposed remodelling of Lydart House at 133 Pepys Road [an enormous Victorian villa in Telegraph Hill] and we will be presenting the scheme at Haberdasher’s Aske’s (Pepys Road Site) Dining Hall next Saturday morning (5th July) at 10.30am.The current buildingWe have installed display boards ...

Bad Boys Too

Jun

2014

A local resident who asked not to be named sent us this photo of Brockley Police Station, which was recently bought by developers seeking to turn it into housing. No plans have been approved, but it looks like the building is not being taken good care of. He writes:Unfortunately the original gates and some of ...

Poverty rate falls in Inner London

May

2014

More evidence of London's great inversion, this time courtesy of the LSE. Ruth Lupton of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion analysed census data from 2001 - 2011 and found that poverty rates in inner London fell substantially during this period, while outer boroughs experienced a significant increase in poverty rates.London's poor are being ...

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 ...

Thurston Work

May

2014

New buildings are flying up on Thurston Road. Once the sole preserve of evangelical churches and MFI-bound traffic, the area is being transformed by the creation of Thurston Central, a mixed-use development, with 406 new homes (including 12 new apartments available for shared ownership) and 80,000 square feet of commercial space, located in three different ...