The Blackheath fireworks display will be back again this year – but the free displays of the past are unlikely to return in future, Lewisham councillors have been told. A generation of SE Londoners grew up with free displays on Blackheath, lasting for about 30 years until 2019, with crowds of up to 100,000 people […]
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Campaigners want council to halt Lewisham Shopping Centre redevelopment
Campaigners hoping to halt the redevelopment of Lewisham Shopping Centre want the borough’s new Green council to stop a potential compulsory purchase of the old Citibank tower. Save Lewisham Shopping Centre wants more affordable housing added to the £1.5 billion redevelopment. Councillors approved the scheme in October, and that decision was rubber-stamped by the council’s […]
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Lewisham Council challenges Sadiq Khan over affordable housing cut
Lewisham Council has joined two other boroughs in challenging Sir Sadiq Khan’s decision to cut targets for affordable housing in new developments. London’s planning policy says that developers should include 35 per cent “affordable housing” in their schemes – a term which covers social rented homes, shared ownership and privately-rented homes offered at a discount. […]
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Boots gets new store as Lewisham redevelopment moves forward
Boots has moved into a new store in Lewisham Shopping Centre as preparations for the mall’s redevelopment go on. The health and beauty chain moved into the old Wilko store at the centre of the mall on Wednesday, adding more consultation rooms and boasting optician and hearing care services. A £1.5 billion redevelopment is planned […]
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Lewisham’s closed Ravensbourne Arms could be turned into ten-room HMO
Update, May 1: The planning application has been withdrawn, Salamander News reports. A pub in Lewisham that had been at the centre of a campaign to turn it into a community music venue could become a ten-room HMO if a developer is successful. The Ravensbourne Arms on Lewisham High Street closed in 2016 after the […]
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Deptford Creek student blocks thrown out by inspector over views from Greenwich
Plans for nearly 600 student rooms on Deptford Creek would cause serious harm to views from Greenwich’s historic town centre, a planning inspector has ruled. Greenwich Council’s planning board threw out Your Tribe’s plans for 13 and 17-storey blocks off Creek Road last year, but the developer appealed against the decision. After a four-day public […]
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Castle Cinema to reopen Catford Mews site 15 months after closure
An independent cinema operator from Hackney is to take over the former Catford Mews site – 15 months after the previous operator was evicted over rent arrears. Castle Cinema will take over the site at 32 Winslade Way in the Catford shopping centre, which will now be known as Castle Catford. The site was previously […]
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Lewisham’s nine-screen cinema to finally open next year
An operator for the cinema in the Lewisham Gateway development has finally been confirmed – bringing movies back to the town centre for the first time in 40 years. Lewisham Council announced on social media that the Irish movie chain Arc Cinemas will take on the nine-screen cinema in the troubled development between Lewisham station […]
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