Re-imagining Deptford Creek: Eleni Mente’s Sentient Edges
A workshop at the BPTW architects' open studio asks: 'What if we gave more room to the river?'
Alice Devine
Lewisham council refuses plans for Deptford Bridge scheme - but fails to raise ambition for creek
Lewisham councillors rejected the Deptford Reach scheme on grounds of heritage, urban design, lack of a section 106 and loss of light to Creekside houseboats, but did not engage with calls for ambitious environmental improvement of the creek.
Malcolm Cadman has plans to bring Voice4Deptford into the town hall
Malcolm Cadman is a founder member of community campaign Voice4Deptford and is standing as an independent councillor candidate for Evelyn ward in Lewisham.
Convoys Wharf, Deptford: London's new emergency housebuilding rules heighten local fears
Local residents were offered a site visit, but the recent announcement has increased concerns about low levels of social housing and exclusion of local communities from the planned development.
'Should we be marching on the lot?': A new book charts Deptford’s decades-long resistance
Author Roger Green uses his work alongside housing campaigners Voice for Deptford to suggest strategies for communities fighting regeneration which excludes them.