Campaigners are celebrating after a High Court judge ordered that Lewisham Council’s planning permission for 110 new homes on an estate in Sydenham be quashed over “significant errors” in its decision-making. Friends of Mais House has been fighting the City of London Corporation’s plans for the Sydenham Hill Estate – on the borough’s boundary with […]
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Lewisham Council housing families in crime-hit Harlow ‘human warehouse’
Lewisham Council houses homeless families in a block dubbed a “human warehouse” that police received 600 calls from in three years. The details of the temporary accommodation in Harlow, Essex, leased by the council from property developer Caridon, have been published in and alongside a review of how living in temporary accommodation affects children and young people. The […]
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Yes Egan! Damien is Labour’s pick for Lewisham elected mayor
Lewisham Labour members have chosen Damien Egan to be their candidate for next May’s mayoral election in the borough – making the councillor red-hot favourite to succeed Sir Steve Bullock as the council’s figurehead. Unlike Greenwich, which operates a leader and cabinet system, Lewisham is one of a handful of boroughs where residents directly elect […]
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