Plans to knock down Lewisham shopping centre and replace it with 1,700 homes and a new mall are set to take a small but vital step forward next week when plans for the council to compulsorily purchase the Citibank tower are discussed. Lewisham councillors backed the plans, put forward by the shopping centre’s owner Landsec, […]
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Land deal could revive plans for more Deptford Creek towers
Long-delayed plans for more tall towers on Deptford Creek could be revived, with Lewisham Council set to sell a portion of land to the insurance giant Legal & General. Councillors had approved plans from the developers Kitewood and Galliard to build 393 flats in 26 and 30-storey towers at Copperas Street in November 2020. The […]
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Goldsmiths University to open campus in Catford’s Old Town Hall
Goldsmiths University is to open a campus in the centre of Catford – with more than 600 fine art and design students expected to move in. The university, which can date its history in New Cross back to Victorian times, is expected to take a ten-year lease in the Old Town Hall, across the road […]
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Greenwich rated ‘red’ for its potholes — but council disputes the data
Greenwich has been named as one of the worst local authorities in England for the way it deals with potholes – but the council disputed the government’s figures and said it had concerns about how they were calculated. The Labour council is one of 13 rated “red” over the way it spends public money on […]
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No free permits to keep Zipcar in London from Greenwich or Lewisham
Neither Greenwich nor Lewisham councils will be offering Zipcar free permits to help keep the car-sharing business in London – despite a call from neighbouring Southwark for other boroughs to help out. The American-owned company, which has about 550,000 customers in London, stopped accepting bookings in the capital on New Year’s Day as it consults […]
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Greenwich & Lewisham’s assembly member Len Duvall joins House of Lords
Greenwich and Lewisham’s long-serving London Assembly member, Len Duvall, has been made a member of the House of Lords – as has Lewisham’s elected mayor, Brenda Dacres. Duvall was leader of Greenwich Council for eight years before being elected to the 25-strong assembly, which scrutinises the mayor, when it was set up in 2000. He […]
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Lewisham Gateway residents may not return home until late next year
More than 400 residents who were evacuated from the new Lewisham Gateway development in February might not be able to return home until late next year, the building’s landlord has said. A major leak in the three newest blocks, between the station and shopping centre, knocked out water and power supplies for some homes. The […]
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Taller Leegate tower approved — but developer sorry for Blackheath branding
More than 600 homes and a 17-storey tower will now replace the derelict Leegate shopping centre – but the developer got a ticking-off from Lewisham councillors for branding the scheme “Blackheath Gate”. The 1970s mall, which has been empty since last year, has long been earmarked for development, with the most recent plan for 562 […]
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