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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...

Embleton Green is people!

Mar

2017

The campaigner's photo of the threatened green spaceRosie writes:Lewisham Council has announced that it intends to build on the green space/gardens at the back of the flats on Ermine Road, fronting on to Embleton Road. One of the residents of the flats tells me that they are also to lose their garages [directly underneath the ...

1,400 new homes planned for New Cross Sainsbury’s car park site

Mar

2017

Outline plans have been developed to create between 1,000 and 1,500 new homes on the site of the New Cross Gate Sainsbury's.The development will be facilitated by the arrival of the Bakerloo Line extension, which will provide a massive increase to public transport capacity in the area and provide a new station directly underneath the ...

Geoffrey Road garage replacement denied

Jan

2017

They are a capricious bunch, the Lewisham planning team. Despite being happy to let this ugly little character through, they have rejected more handsome proposal just up the road, in-part on the basis of its looks.A proposed replacement for the Geoffrey Road MOT garage has been rejected on two grounds. Lewisham's decision says:"The proposed building, by ...

Small and blighty

Jan

2017

So... what do we think of this one? I have been watching this modest new two-storey house emerge slowly at Brockley Cross, assuming there had to be more to it than this. Some final flourish or new skin that would transform it. But there's no twist in the tail. That's your lot.I always try to ...

Rightmove: Brockley house prices rose at second-fastest rate in last decade

Jan

2017

On Monday, Knight Frank claimed that Brockley house prices had risen at the fifth (or possibly fourth)-fastest rate in the capital since 2008. Today, Rightmove have conducted a very similar analysis and reckon that Brockley house prices rose at the second-fastest rate in the capital over the last decade, only lagging Wapping.The Standard says:"Every gambler ...

Brockley books London’s 5th-biggest house price rise since 2008

Jan

2017

Areas with the fastest-rising house prices since 2008 marked in dark blueAnalysis of Land Registry data by Knight Frank shows that Brockley has experienced the fifth fastest rate of house price growth in London since the financial crash of 2008.Average house price values have risen by 55% in SE4 in the last six years.Inner London ...

Brockley: Building the Dream

Jan

2017

More4 show Building the Dream kicks off its new series with the story of Eryka and Sam, a Brockley couple who transformed a dilapidated Ashby Mews workshop into their dream home (or at least, I assume they did - the show is still unfolding).The building is a live-work hybrid, which includes studio space for glass ...

Application made to replace Mantle Road shops

Jan

2017

An application has been made to convert the majority of the ground floor retail space at number 1 Mantle Road for residential use. The proposal is for:"The change of use, alteration and conversion of part of the ground floor at 1 Mantle Road SE4 to retain commercial unit and provide 1 one bedroom and 1 ...

Brockley MOT garage to be redeveloped

Nov

2016

The MOT garage on the corner of Upper Brockley Road and Geoffrey Road is the subject of a new proposal to redevelop the site as housing, with office space at ground level.The scheme is for "the construction of a four storey building to provide 7 residential units and 53sqm of commercial floorspace (Use Class B1)."The ...

Tesco tower proposed for Lewisham

Nov

2016

Image from the consultation, courtesy of QWAGDeveloper Meyer Homes has revealed plans to develop new homes next to the Lewisham Tesco supermarket, adding 365 homes to the site.Image from the consultation, courtesy of QWAGThe scheme, presented yesterday, includes three towers and some public realm works, including two new squares. Although the developers claim that they ...