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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...

New house planned for Cranfield Road

Feb

2015

Not the project in question, but a bit like it - Slip House in BrixtonA local family is hoping to convert three garages on Cranfield Road into a new house, inspired by Slip House in Brixton (above). Friend o' BC Richard went along to a public consultation today and reports back:"Speaking to the family they ...

Local artist to create Brockley Road mural

Feb

2015

The latest visualisation of 180 Brockley RoadBoultbee LDN is the developer responsible for the transformation of 180 Brockley Road from MOT Garage into flats and shops. They've just issued this announcement, updating on the project:"Boultbee LDN has commissioned local artist, Rhiannon Hunter, to paint a panel of the hoarding at its property development at 180 ...

Plan to turn Hither Green cinema into flats

Feb

2015

Image courtesy of Google Street ViewThe passing of the Golden Age of Lewisham Cinema is something that many BCers mourn, so it is worth noting that a planning application has gone in to convert one of the borough's former picture palaces into flats.What is now Carpet Corner at 232 Hither Green Lane was once the Park ...

Bid to turn Lewisham House into 230 new homes

Jan

2015

Photo courtesy of GeographA planning application has been submitted to convert Lewisham House (25 Molesworth Street) for residential use, with the aim of creating 230 apartments.The building was once the main UK office for Citi, but the international bank outgrew its Lewisham home and decamped to Canary Wharf decades ago. What's left is a useless ...

Ladywell’s pop-up community revealed

Jan

2015

Lewisham has revealed its plans to create a temporary residential development on the site of the former Ladywell swimming pool.The designs are considerably better than the early examples the Council cited and it's good to see this kind of innovation in the borough, but there has to be a question mark about how temporary this ...

Standard: Brockley is a hotspot for 2015

Jan

2015

When your humble hyperlocal blogger is running from meeting to meeting, wondering how he's going to squeeze in a trenchant post or two, puff pieces about Brockley in the Evening Standard's Homes & Property section are like manna from heaven - particularly when they include incendiary phrases like:"The charms of Brockley lie almost exclusively within ...

Two major new developments proposed for Deptford Creekside

Dec

2014

Major residential developments are one of the defining themes of 2014 and squeaking in before the close the year are these two consultations, down the road in Deptford, either side of the Laban Centre.Creekside East (above) would create two new tall buildings and 249 apartments for rent, next to the Creekside development, which is at last ...

11-storey tower proposed for Loampit Vale

Dec

2014

Plans have been submitted for the:"Demolition of existing shop, workshop and 5 no. bedsits at 87-89 Loampit Vale, SE13 and the construction of a part 4, part 11 storey building comprising 49 self-contained dwellings (20 x 1 bedroom, 18 x 2 bedroom and 11 x 3 bedroom); together with four car parking spaces, landscaping and ...

Ladywell Storey

Dec

2014

Once upon a time not long ago, when people wore pyjamas and lived life slow,There lived a lil' boy who was misled, by anotha lil' boy and this is what he said:"Me, Ya, Ty, we gonna make sum cash, robbin' old folks and makin' tha dash",They did the job, money came with ease, but one ...

Midtown matters

Nov

2014

Two glum midtown buildings are in the middle of a makeover.St Cyprian's is being turned into a block of flats with a ground floor restaurant and the scaffolding is creeping up (thanks to Fintan for the photo):Esso's being turned into a slightly nicer Esso: