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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...

Brockley Yurt Company plans big tent solution to soaring house prices

Apr

2015

Do you really want to yurt me? The Drake Road yurt is ready to take its first guestThe latest wave of house price inflation has produced all kinds of drastic housing solutions and cash-grabs locally, including narrow homes, shed-homes, pop-ups and self-builds. But no-one has dared to think outside the four-walls-and-a-roof box quite so radically ...

Self-build Ladywell plan gets approved

Mar

2015

Lewisham Council says:Lewisham Council is looking for a community-led partner organisation to work with residents who want to build their own homes on the site of a former school in Ladywell.Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock has given the green light to a competitive dialogue process to select a not-for-profit consortium or organisation to deliver ...

Tanners Hill mews ploughs ahead

Mar

2015

Once, developers' plans for local sites would live as computer generated illustrations for years, if not decades. Now, no-one is hanging about.The Notting Hill Housing Association's plan to create a new mews at the top of Tanners Hill, announced last year, is already well-under-way.As this picture from friend-of-BC, Richard shows, the site is now cleared and ...

The Tower: Would suit buyer who really, REALLY likes art deco

Mar

2015

We're obviously missing something about Lewisham and / or the London property market, but you can now apply to buy a flat next to Europe's largest police station and opposite the shopping centre for a price between £900,000 and £3m. The developers of Tower House have dared to dream.The website now asks for you to register ...

Tell me what you see

Mar

2015

People keep sending us photos of the hoardings around the 180 Brockley Road development, with no further comment.We're not quite sure what reaction we're all expected to share in response to this bit of marketing by the developers - presumably revulsion? Or maybe validation? Amusement?@BrockleyCentral Seen this? pic.twitter.com/7X6932hrUy— Rob Briner (@Rob_Briner) February 28, 2015To be ...

Standard fare for Bakerloo Line

Feb

2015

Property journalists - their boosterism makes BC look coy. Today's Evening Standard has got in as quickly to the Bakerloo bonanza as it advises its readers to.Today's Homes & Property section predicts that South East London will be transformed by the Bakerloo Line extension, which is coming sooner rather than later and highlights New Cross ...

Bird’s Dress Agency now a four bed house

Feb

2015

It's been mentioned a few times already by BCers, but just as there are positive signs of life emanating from Brockley Cross, one of the more handsome shops in the area has been lost to a residential conversion.Bird's Dress Agency and the flats above have been turned into a four-bed house, now on the market ...

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 ...

New Bermondsey serves up new East London Line station

Feb

2015

New Bermondsey is the new name for Old Surrey Canal. The mixed use development planned around Millwall's stadium will be renamed New Bermondsey and get a new station on the East London Line route to Clapham Junction.The news was part of the announcement made by the Chancellor, which also confirmed that the East London Line ...

Honor Oak shed seller seeks £280,000

Feb

2015

The housing market is such that Greater Brockley is now throwing up its fair share of "outdoor toilet in London costs as much as a castle in Scotland" stories. Here's the latest.A shed for £280,000 on the Honor Oak / West Brockley border at the end of St Norbert Road. Small spaces can make fine ...