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Featured local business - Clubtek

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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...

Campaign group wants Drakefell Road to go HGV-free

Nov

2014

The DRAG Campaign Team write:The Drakefell Road Action Group has submitted a Petition to Lewisham Council to persuade them to make this Brockley street safer, more accessible for pedestrians and cyclists and ban the large Lorries which are blighting the lives of residents. Drakefell Road is an important link for residents between Brockley and Nunhead but Lorries ...

TfL unveils plans for a better (but not much) Deptford Broadway

Nov

2014

Deptford Dame has found TfL's plans to remodel the disastrous Deptford Broadway road junction, which is scary to navigate on foot, on a bike or in a car. TfL's main objective is to make it safer for pedestrians, but as DD says, the plans are basically putting lipstick on a pig and the provision for ...

Malpas flooded

Oct

2014

Malpas Road was closed this morning due to flooding, the result of a burst water main. Six basement flats were damaged by the water. The road has now been reopened. These two tweets this morning may have been related to one another:Woken up to road closed by flood & 7 fire engines outside #malpasroad @BrockleyCentral ...

Silvertown Tunnel vision

Oct

2014

This week, TfL launched a public consultation for the planned Silvertown tunnel, which would link Greenwich Peninsula to the Royal Docks. The plan would reduce the strain on the Blackwall Tunnel, create a direct road link between two of London’s biggest development areas and provide an alternative option whenever the Blackwall Tunnel decides to have ...

Coulgate Street improvement plans revealed

Oct

2014

With construction work at 180 Brockley Road due to begin on Monday, the plans for improvement work on Coulgate Street, which would be part-funded by the developers, have been made available online. Lewisham Council writes:Lewisham Council is consulting on plans to improve Coulgate Street, on the eastern side of Brockley Station. The proposed scheme is designed to ...

Council plans improvements to ‘Brockley Corridor’

Aug

2014

Lewisham Council has launched a consultation about their plans to improve the "Brockley Corridor" - a long stretch of road from Brockley Cross to Stansted Road in Honor Oak. They say:We have secured funding from Transport for London through the Local Improvement Plan to develop proposals for improving the public realm along various sections of ...

CPZ creep planned for Ladywell and Lewisham

Aug

2014

As dawn broke, the Worm uncoiled its snaky twine from around the hill, and came to its rock in the river... it lashed the waters in its fury and wound its coils round the Childe, and then attempted to crush him to death. But the more it pressed, the deeper dug the spear-heads into its ...

Unsure upon Avignon [UPDATED]

Jul

2014

Ali writes:"Here's a photo of pavement that was laid last week on Avignon Road!"When contacted today about the complete disintegration of the pavers and the serious danger to the public, the response was 'not our problem, guv.'"Conway's view is that they have done the job and signed it off, any complaints now go to The ...

Boris persuaded to fixing deathtrap Deptford Junction

Jul

2014

Deptford Broadway is a pretty disastrous bit of road layout, so anything that can be done to make it easier to navigate would be a huge step forward. This encouraging bit of news is from the office of Darren Johnson at the London Assembly:Responding to lobbying by Darren Johnson AM, the Mayor of London has ...

Lewisham braced for tailbacks as Gateway construction begins in earnest

Jul

2014

Indicative massing of the buildings and road layout that will replace the roundaboutMajor delays are expected on Lewisham's roads today as work begins on the remodelling of Lewisham town centre's layout, which will result in the replacement of the roundabout with a new road system, to allow for the development of the massive Lewisham Gateway ...