Lewisham Shopping Centre: Landsec backs out in win for anti-gentrification campaigners
Although housing campaigners are celebrating, Lewisham's Green administration received an unwelcome lesson in the dynamics of power.
Planning
Lewisham Shopping Centre: campaigners challenge Greens in anti-gentrification debate
The housing campaigners reminded Green councillors of their pre-election pledge to support the demands of the Save Lewisham Shopping Centre campaign. The council now says these are impossible.
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.
Your Tribe's growth across Deptford: when is student accommodation too much?
As Lewisham council approves another Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) scheme from Your Tribe at Sun Wharf, we look at Tribe's growth in the area and ask whether demand is as robust as it claims.
Phoenix plans 63 homes at former Catford police station
The housing association's plans to convert the former police station on Bromley Road have been recommended for approval by Lewisham planning committee.
"Unsightly" New Cross hoarding on the way out
Lewisham officers refused another extension, judging the hoarding to be "poor quality, unsightly, and contributing towards anti-social behaviours".
Scott House tenants will be served with section 21 eviction notices "shortly"
Tribe has informed more than 60 residents that it will soon will be sending out the eviction notices. Residents report that the building's condition has deteriorated over recent months. In February, construction work began outside their windows.