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UNCOVERED: Lewisham council - The Untold Story

‘Battle of Blackheath’: Strictly star Sarah Hadland demands to know why council set to ‘destroy’ village

‘Battle of Blackheath’ controversy engulfs picturesque corner of southeast London as celebrity-backed campaign group fights against proposed residential development in station car park

The Independent UK

Victory for Jude Law and Dominic Cooper as Blackheath car park development put on hold

Jude Law, 53, who grew up in Blackheath and went to the nearby John Ball Primary School, said the plans were not the answer to London’s growing housing crisis

Evening Standard

Marvel star Dominic Cooper fights plans for housing development in south east London

Dominic Cooper has called on Lewisham Council to revisit the controversial housing proposals in Blackheath

Evening Standard

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Goldsmiths to open new university campus in Catford

More than 600 students will be based at the new site at Lewisham Council’s Old Town Hall building

Evening Standard

'My landlord is a homelessness charity — and they are making me homeless'

Kim Mansell is facing a court battle against her landlord, homelessness charity the 999 club

Evening Standard

Family-run London restaurant fights back against £1.5million fine over an extractor fan

Fundraising campaign launched in Lewisham restaurant’s fightback against £2.5million confiscation order

Evening Standard

Plans to demolish London shopping centre and build 1,700 homes given green light

Lewisham Shopping Centre to be demolished to make way for towers up to 35 storeys high

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London restaurant faces £2.5million 'proceeds of crime' fine over kitchen fan installed without council permission

Brothers Ahmet and Sahin Gok had their passports seized and face a £2.5million penalty for installing a kitchen extraction system without planning permission

Evening Standard

Battle of Blackheath: Inside the celebrity fight against ‘ugly’ new housing in picturesque London hotspot

Blackheath locals including LBC presenter Nick Ferrari and actor Sarah Hadland tell The Independent their fight against ‘ugly’ proposed development could soon be repeated around the UK amid the government’s house-building pledges

The Independent UK

South London council scraps high street pedestrianisation plans after backlash

Lewisham Council said no such scheme would come forward without further engagement with the local community

Evening Standard

Mother whose sick child was left in damp and mouldy flat by south London council is awarded £9,400

An investigation found Lewisham Council took 13 months ‘too long’ to provide the family with interim accommodation

Evening Standard

'Someone will be killed’: Residents sound alarm after 10 bus crashes on south London road

Residents in Catford are calling for urgent safety measures to be implemented amid fears someone could be killed

Evening Standard

Greenwich nightclub has license suspended after 'serious' sexual assaults reported

Lewisham Council held a licensing committee on July 21, in which the licence for Dokis Lounge, previously Star & Garter, on New Cross Road, was suspended

Evening Standard

Beckenham Place Park lake to reopen less than three weeks after 'heartbreaking' death of teenage boy

Izaiah Smith, 15, died on April 4 after swimming in the water in the London park

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Lewisham high street reopens as man detained following 15-hour knife stand off

Lewisham Council confirmed all cordons had been lifted as video appears to show police detaining someone inside property

The Independent UK

Residents return, high street reopened after knife stand-off

Lewisham Council confirmed all cordons had been lifted.

Evening Standard

Council parking boss behind ‘war on motorists’ in London borough was accused of ‘trying to quash own tickets’

Seamus Adams rolls out programme where those with most-polluting vehicles could pay £750 to park outside own homes

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Row breaks out over London council's alleged links to church accused of abuse

Rival politicians clash over Lewisham council’s dealings with the United Church of the Kingdom of God

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London Tories walk out of City Hall meeting in protest over 'left-wing wokery'

The protest came after the Green Party’s Zack Polanski refused to agree to host an all-male panel discussion

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Lewisham: Plans for borough's first travellers' site for 15 years revealed

Plans for Lewisham’s first Travellers’ site in 15 years have been revealed — next to a railway line and homes.

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Protesters in Halloween costumes stage sit-in at Lewisham Council over ‘unsuitable housing’

The council is being urged to rehouse two families stuck in ‘cramped’, shared accommodation

Evening Standard

Catford Mews: Only cinema in Lewisham closed down after council repossess building

Catford Mews, Lewisham borough’s only cinema, suddenly shut its doors after council-owned landlord repossessed building over rent arrears

Evening Standard

London family wins £20,000 after council blamed mould problem on 'lifestyle'

Lewisham Council insisted a yearly mould wash was enough to deal with the problem eight years after the resident first reported a leak

Daily Mirror

'I was forced to move out for doing my job - the neighbours didn't like the noise'

Fiona Fey made the touch decision to move out of her flat after neighbours repeatedly banged on the ceiling and complained any time she would try to practice her music

MusicRadar

Musician told she'll be fined £5,000 for playing any instrument in her own home

Lewisham Council issued Fiona Fey a noise abatement notice forbidding her from singing, playing her guitar and flute

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