Lewisham still among most affordable choices for Generation Y

Another Savills map of London, this one designed to show how much a member of Generation Y would need to get on the property ladder.Obviously, this is all fairly frightening for most first-time buyers, but despite the fact that Lewisham has been playing catch-up with London's pricier boroughs, it is still among the most affordable ...

Brockley Police Station residential development proposed

Brockley Police Station (2-4 Howson Road) was sold earlier this year to developers Holbrook Investment Limited, who want to turn it into a residential property. A public consultation is now under way on their plans to convert the station itself into four new homes and to build a new terrace of five two-storey houses to ...

Student accommodation plan for The Walpole

The owners of the steaming pile of rubble formerly known as The Walpole (403-405 New Cross Road) have changed their minds about about building a hotel there and submitted an application for a "part 4 and part 5 storey building with basement for 60 student rooms and communal facilities at part basement, part ground and ...

Coming soon [sic]: Lewisham Gateway

The first phase of Lewisham Gateway will include two new blocks and a new public space "Confluence Place"The first phase of Lewisham Gateway (née Lewisham 2000) is really happening. It's only taken the most buoyant property market in history for this development to finally get off the ground, but the hoardings started to go up ...

London: Bubbles vs Spikes

When someone says "it's different this time" it's time to run for the hills. So, there is every chance that another property bubble could be inflating at the moment. But the existence of bubbles doesn't mean there are not long-term trends at work, and the London property market looks more like Google than Clickmango.London property ...

Lewisham homes selling at 7th-fastest rate in the country

The Telegraph reports that Lewisham homes are the seventh-fastest-selling in the country.In total, 63.97% of Lewisham homes advertised on search engines are already under offer or sold subject to completion - the seventh highest proportion out of the 99 most-populated parts of the country, according to an index by eMoov. The paper says:The top 10 ...

Digital divide hits Brockley Cross

"The Brockley 27" in classic "angry local residents" pose for the GuardianA few months ago, a friend who moved into the Dragonfly Place live-work development in Brockley Cross, mentioned that the residents were struggling to get any phone or internet access and we might look into the subject. Well, we should have, but we didn't.Now, ...

London’s housing types mapped

Via the Guardian's London blog comes this image from the prolific team at estate agents Savills, who've mapped London's housing tenure by three main types: social rented (green), private rented (blue) and owner occupied (red).There are perhaps few real surprises in terms of the overall distribution but we'd expected more of Lewisham to be social ...

Made in Brockley masterpiece for Breakspears Road

In contrast to the sorry mess proposed for Brockley Cross comes this plan for a 5-bedroom house on an empty plot on Breakspears Road, submitted for approval recently.Conceived by regular BCer Richard and designed by local architect Gruff, the plan is a hybrid house - Victorian replica at the front, modernist at the back. The ...

Residential proposal for Brockley Police Station

Brockley Police Station has been sold, but its sui generis planning status means that the buyer will have to get Council approval for its conversion plans. So we asked the Council for a comment on whether planning officers had a preference for its redevelopment - the area would benefit from more high quality space for ...