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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...

Lewisham Way plot sold

Nov

2013

As the housing market heats up again, some of the area's last remaining residential development opportunities are beginning to show signs of life. Richard writes:A building plot in the conservation area sold this week at auction (Lot 35) for £310,000. It is the 'land at the rear' of 170 Lewisham Way. Someone subdivided their garden a ...

Greenwich Peninsula deal paves way for delivery of 10,000 new homes

Nov

2013

Developer Quintain has sold its minority stake in the Greenwich Peninsula regeneration scheme to its joint-venture partner Knight Dragon in a deal which will ensure the delivery of approximately 10,000 new homes on the 147 acre site.Commenting on the deal, Sammy Lee, Director of Knight Dragon said:“Greenwich Peninsula represents a unique opportunity to deliver one ...

Mayor calls in Convoys Wharf

Oct

2013

The Mayor of London has called-in the £1 billion plan to redevelop Convoys Wharf in Deptford after the developer Hutchison Whampoa lost patience with Lewisham Council over the protracted decision-making process. Building Design reports:Hutchison Whampoa lost patience with the local authority, accusing it of making “unreasonable and unwarranted” demands and of pushing the scheme’s viability ...

The Great Inversion

Oct

2013

Last month, we posted a map showing how house prices have changed in London the last three years, with Lewisham among an inner core of London boroughs which rose while outer boroughs stagnated. It's one expression of a phenomenon that US demographer Alan Ehrenhalt calls 'The Great Inversion'.“The late 20th century,” he writes, “was the age of poor ...

Lewisham house prices rise with inner core

Sep

2013

Via LondonLovesBusiness comes this interactive map of London, which shows how house prices have changed over the last three years, in each borough. No real surprises - but what it shows clearly is that the inner London boroughs are becoming increasingly expensive, both in absolute terms and relative to the outer suburbs, as the wealthy ...

Cedar Mews

Sep

2013

The Cedar Mews apartments on Geoffrey Road are finally complete and ready for appraisal. The development extends behind these tall maisonettes with a single-floor building, in which neighbours face each other. The architecture is in stark contrast to Malpas Mews, another recent development, at the other end of Geoffrey Road. So what do you think of ...

The Brockley Barn for sale

Aug

2013

Alastair spotted this Arabin Road property featured in the Standard's Unusual Homes [for sale] feature today. They say:This unique, secluded home in the heart of Brockley was built around 1875 and was originally used as horse stables, and more recently as a car dealership. The property was granted residential status in 2000 and was transformed ...

Ashby Mews studios approved

Jul

2013

The live / work development proposed for Ashby Mews has been approved by Lewisham Council.The plans, which will create two new two-storey homes and studio spaces along a cratered stretch of mews, had met some opposition from local residents, concerned about their gardens being overlooked. However, sympathetic development of Brockley's mews is the right way forward.This ...

Birds Dress Agency up for sale

Jul

2013

Monkeyboy spots that the freehold on the Birds Dress Agency property on Malpas Road is now up for sale. Agents KFH say: Adjoining two storey mid terrace property comprising an inter-communicating vintage clothes shops on the ground floor level with a self-contained entrance to the upper parts. There is a garden at the rear of ...

Lewisham one of top boroughs for new homes

Jun

2013

The Evening Standard reports that boroughs in central south and east London will accommodate the majority of new homes built in the capital in the next decade:A building spree in six inner-city boroughs — Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Wandsworth — will account for almost 60 per cent of the 278,000 new homes ...