Heavy goods vehicles could be banned from part of Blackheath Village after years of requests from local residents. Lewisham Council is consulting on barring vehicles over 7.5 tonnes from using the southern part of Tranquil Vale, Blackheath Village and the northern part of Lee Road as a through route. Deliveries would still be allowed and […]
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Plans for Blackheath Farmers’ Market are ‘a fiction’, local society says
Blackheath Farmers’ Market is threatened by proposals to build 45 homes on the station car park, a local amenity society has claimed, branding plans for the market’s future “a fiction”. Acorn Property Group, a north London-based developer, wants to build 20 houses and 25 flats in the car park, and insists that it wants to […]
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900 new homes planned for Deptford Bridge – with just 11 per cent ‘affordable’
A 31-storey block could tower over Deptford Bridge as part of plans for more than 900 homes on the old Lewisham College site – with nearly nine out of ten to be sold privately. Plans have gone into both Greenwich and Lewisham councils for the development. Both authorities and the London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan […]
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New look for car-free Deptford High Street unveiled by council
New designs for Deptford High Street have been revealed by Lewisham Council, which plans to ban cars from most of the shopping area every day of the week. At present the part of the high street is closed three days each week so markets can be held. Lewisham now plans to pedestrianise the road between […]
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Squatters take over closed Catford Mews cinema
Squatters have taken over the closed-down Catford Mews cinema, five months after it closed suddenly after a row over unpaid rent. The venue has been empty since late October after Really Local Group, the company that operated the cinema, was thrown out by the Lewisham Council-owned company that owns the site in a row over […]
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Catford Mews owner owed Lewisham Council £387,000 when firm closed
The company that ran the Catford Mews cinema owed Lewisham Council £387,000 when it entered liquidation, official documents reveal. Really Local Group (Catford Mews) Ltd also owed staff over £56,000 – a figure that could rise as it does not take into account those who were on zero-hours contracts. The cinema was a lynchpin of […]
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Leegate development sold again — with new owner pledging to start this year
The crumbling Leegate shopping centre has been bought by its third developer, which is promising that work will finally start this year on turning it into more than 500 new homes. The site, on the boundary of Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs, has been at the centre of a long-running saga over its future. A decade […]
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We want to return to Lewisham, Catford Mews operator says as firm liquidated
The operator of the closed-down Catford Mews cinema has been liquidated, but the businessman behind the venture hopes to open up again in a nearby location. Really Local Group (Catford Mews) Ltd was placed in liquidation at 2pm on Wednesday, four months after its landlord, a Lewisham Council company, repossessed the building saying it had […]
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