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’s Model Market to reopen in ‘late summer’ with German Kraft in charge
Lewisham’s revived Model Market will open in “late summer” with the German Kraft brewery in charge of the operation, its owners have announced. Plans to bring back the much-loved street food market were announced last year, with the developer LandSec, which owns the site and the shopping centre, pledging to open up this spring. But […]
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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 shopping centre development set to inch forward with council deal
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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Lewisham’s Model Market to return after five years away
Lewisham’s Model Market will be reopening in the spring, five years after the street food area last traded. LandSec, the developer which in October won permission to rebuild Lewisham Shopping Centre with 1,700 new homes, is promising “a hub for independent kitchens, local makers and creative spaces”. The company is asking local independent traders to […]
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Lewisham Shopping Centre redevelopment approved amid angry scenes
Plans to demolish Lewisham shopping centre and replace it with 1,700 homes and a new mall were backed by councillors on Thursday night amid angry scenes in the public gallery. Two councillors who had expressed critical or sceptical views about the development were barred from voting on the decision after the meeting restarted without them […]
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Rival developers battle over Lewisham’s old Citibank tower
A rival developer hopes to put a spanner in the works of plans to redevelop Lewisham Shopping Centre after it submitted its own proposals for part of the site. On Thursday, Lewisham councillors are due to make a decision on Landsec’s plans to knock down the 1970s mall and replace it with 1,700 homes in […]
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Plans for 1,700 flats at Lewisham Shopping Centre set for approval
Plans to knock down Lewisham Shopping Centre and replace it with more than 1,700 new homes and a new mall could take a step forward next week when councillors decide whether or not to approve the scheme. Lewisham Council’s planning officers are recommending that the borough’s strategic development committee allows the project, with towers of […]
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