Lewisham Council Archives - Page 3 of 17

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...

Iconic cat to be borough’s anchor tenant

Mar

2017

As the Council ponders the future of Catford, a petition has been doing the rounds, demanding that the iconic model cat, which sits on top of the shopping centre, must play a prominent part in whatever master plan emerges.Today, the Council has responded, assuring worried residents that they will not do to the cat what ...

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 ...

Lewisham switches to fortnightly black bin collection

Feb

2017

Lewisham Council writes:From June there will be big changes to rubbish and recycling collections.Free food waste collectionsAnyone who currently has their own rubbish and recycling wheelie bins (mostly those who live in a house or a flat in a converted house) will get:a small food waste bin to go alongside their other binsa smaller kitchen ...

Street Trees for Living

Feb

2017

Street Trees for Living is the new name for Brockley Society's street tree campaign. We are delighted to report that the total raised since 2012 looks set to be enough to fund 250 street trees - with about half of these already labelled and planted. In the last year alone it raised £18,000. This was from ...

Deptford High Street improvement works start this week

Feb

2017

A map of the improvement worksThe Deptford Dame reports:"Lewisham Council has got some funding from Transport for London to pay for improvements to the north end of Deptford High Street and the six-month programme of construction work is set to start this week."The work will involve widening the pavements, planting trees, installing new seating, traffic ...

Lewisham scraps Millwall scheme

Jan

2017

Lewisham Council have dropped plans to develop the land around Millwall Stadium, a scheme which the club claimed would jeopardise its future in the borough. The Guardian reports:The plan to evict Millwall from their land around The Den by compulsory purchase order (CPO) has been abandoned after months of fierce public pressure. In a statement ...

The Guardian: Lewisham Councillors in revolt over Millwall plan

Jan

2017

The Guardian, which has been admirably dogged in its coverage of Millwall's battle with Lewisham Council over the future of the land around the club's stadium, reports:The plan to seize Millwall’s land around The Den has been left hanging by a thread on Tuesday after it emerged that Lewisham Labour councillors are in open revolt ...

Lewisham seeks Partnerz in Kryme for Ladywell Playtower

Jan

2017

You think you know a place... The Ladywell Playtower is now being marketed, to help the Council find a suitable partner to redevelop it. The site includes some stunning interior shots of the building, which looks like the Foot Clan Hideout. Lewisham Council says:This grade II listed building represents a fantastic opportunity to revive the ...

Millwall say regeneration scheme could force them to leave Lewisham

Jan

2017

Millwall have declared that the regeneration plans for the land surrounding their stadium may force them to relocate to a new site in Kent. The Guardian's Barney Ronay reports:Lewisham council’s plan to compulsorily purchase areas around the Den and sell them on to a mysterious offshore developer with connections to the current Labour administration has ...

Ladywell Playtower to be reopened in 2019

Dec

2016

Lewisham Council has committed to restore Ladywell Baths, the derelict Victorian building sometimes known as The Playtower.Following pressure from the Ladywell Village Improvement Group, it has now published a timetable for the project, which aims to reopen the building in the second half of 2019, at a cost of £4-5million.Expressions of interest from developers will be ...