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Lewisham joins legal challenge to affordable housing quota cut

Lewisham joins legal challenge to affordable housing quota cut

Lewisham has joined six other London councils in a legal challenge to Sadiq Khan's emergency measures policy, which reduces the affordable housing requirement on developers from 35% to 20%.

Brockley: Rain gardens bring traffic calming to Malpas Road

Brockley: Rain gardens bring traffic calming to Malpas Road

Woman carrying a baby in her arms, in a suburban street - household contents piled at either side and overturned cars.

The End We Start From: a new mother faces climate catastrophe

Sam Bloomer speaking at London Assembly meeting.

London councils must acquire empty homes to help solve housing crisis

Candidates wearing party rosettes standing around woman at a lectern reading results.

Crofton Park by-election: Greens hold with wafer-thin majority

Large Victorian red brick primary school, cranes in background.

Deptford Park: new SEN unit welcomes its first children

Victorian brick building covered in grafitti with overgrown trees around.

Ladywell Playtower partner shortlist announced - name only

Housing

Lewisham joins legal challenge to affordable housing quota cut

Lewisham joins legal challenge to affordable housing quota cut

Lewisham has joined six other London councils in a legal challenge to Sadiq Khan's emergency measures policy, which reduces the affordable housing requirement on developers from 35% to 20%.

Sam Bloomer speaking at London Assembly meeting.

London councils must acquire empty homes to help solve housing crisis

Victorian brick building covered in grafitti with overgrown trees around.

Ladywell Playtower partner shortlist announced - name only

CGI of Printworks from above and north east, lit up against sunset and London skyline.

Canada Water: Printworks change goes to consultation

Victorian brick building with large frame windows, cars on road outside.

Childers Street, Deptford: Lewisham refuses change of use for 'luxury' student accommodation

CGI of plans showing new Morrisons store and part of high rise housing block.

Aylesham Centre, Peckham: Berkeley plans dismissed on heritage grounds

CGI of Scott House looking south down Grove Street, 31-storey tower block.

Scott House: YourTribe submit duplicate plans, campaigners call out 'gameplay'

Active Travel

Brockley: Rain gardens bring traffic calming to Malpas Road

Brockley: Rain gardens bring traffic calming to Malpas Road

The well-tended rain gardens at the intersection with Vulcan Road are helping reduce vehicle speeds and improve road safety.

Very hot and bright yellow sun with clouds around

London's May heatwave has 'fingerprints of climate change all over it'

Mourners have left flowers and notes at the site of the collision on Sanford Street.

Campaigners' worst fears: fatal accident on Sanford Street Deptford

Children peddling at the front, adults behind, the bike bus sets off from Bridgehouse Meadows.

New Cross: nerves, excitement and joy - join the bike bus!

Bike bus sets off from Bridgehouse Meadows, children peddling at the front, adults behind.

North Lewisham's new bike bus has its first outing

Newly widened pavement and new zebra crossing (under wraps) at Harefield Road and road works to widen pavement on west side of Brockley Road, cyclist navigating the single lane.

Brockley Road safety scheme begins but more roads ask to join

drawings showing that higher bonnets knocking pedestrians under the vehicle, while lower bonnets deflect them.

SUV proliferation in London: '77% more likely to kill a child'

Climate

Woman carrying a baby in her arms, in a suburban street - household contents piled at either side and overturned cars.

The End We Start From: a new mother faces climate catastrophe

The film centres an unnamed woman, battling to protect her newborn as London begins to flood.

Ed Sutton with microphone speaking at a rally at Lewisham Town Hall, July 2025. CND and Stop the War banners behind him.

Campaigners watchful as Greens take over Lewisham Pensions Investment Committee

Image across water - modern mulitstorey warehouse-like building on banks of Thames.

AI demands 'through the roof' - are London's new data centres undermining climate goals?

Fox and cubs crossing a bridge at night time, water with rubbish floating in it below.

Endling: Extinction is Forever - can a video game raise awareness of the climate crisis?

Workers in high vis and heavy machinery and diggers behind fencing in the park.

Hospital heat pump project starts on Ladywell Fields nature conservation site

Plane landing at London City Airport under stormy sky, tower blocks and HSBC building in background.

Call to pause London City Airport expansion to assess noise impacts

crowds of people, bunting and people sitting on grass outside the café at the opening celebration.

Ladywell Fields: long-awaited new café opens amid construction fears

Community

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Ladywell Playtower partner shortlist announced - name only

Courage, strength and solidarity: Lewisham charity invites you to celebrate Refugee Week

Selce's summer of DIY - empowering communities with retrofit skills

Green Roots: new trees and green skills training for communities across Lewisham

Eastfield buy Ravensbourne Arms but backtrack on HMO plan

Nature

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Endling: Extinction is Forever - can a video game raise awareness of the climate crisis?

Hospital heat pump project starts on Ladywell Fields nature conservation site

Ladywell Fields: long-awaited new café opens amid construction fears

Green Roots: new trees and green skills training for communities across Lewisham

'Environmental racism': council approves rubber crumb football pitch at Whitefoot Lane, Downham

Art & Design

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Shunya, the ethical Etsy alternative that started in Deptford

Murals at Foxborough Gardens, Ladywell restored - 1960s public art for 'ordinary people'

"Unsightly" New Cross hoarding on the way out

Ladywell Playtower: step on-site (just for one day)

SEEN Lewisham exhibitions: Bun n Cheese, the Caribbean Living Room .. and This is England