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HELPFUL LEGAL ADVICE
Advice providers and council act after law centre closes
Advice providers in Brixton are working with Lambeth council to pick up the pieces...
Support Brixton Advice Centre staff’s sponsored walk
Fred Taggart Honorary Secretary Brixton Advice Centre calls for community solidarity
Staff and trustees from Brixton Advice...
PLANNING & HOUSING
Historic Brixton pub warns that licence objections could close it
The Duke of Edinburgh pub on Ferndale Road has warned that a campaign to impose what it says are “unreasonable” licence restrictions on it...
Council vetoes Dogstar plan for 3-storey building in yard
Lambeth council has turned down an application to build flats and a restaurant in the yard at the back of the Dogstar at the...
COUNCIL
Council takes direct control of play and youth services
Young Lambeth Coop (YLC), established by the council in 2014, which has had a major role in commissioning local work with young people, lost...
Lambeth Question Time at Brixton Library
Lambeth council are hosting a day of activities and workshops around Windrush Square on Friday 6 September from 10am-4pm. Representatives of the council, local...
Council to sign deed on future of Brockwell Park
Lambeth council is to make an agreement with a specialist charity that it says will protect Brockwell Park, with some exceptions, from development and...
Government orders council to get on with Cressingham residents’ transfer plan
Central government has told Lambeth council that it must cooperate with a proposal to transfer the demolition-threatened Cressingham Gardens to an organisation of residents.
It...
CRIME
Brixton Ballers recover stolen wheelchair
Wheelchair basketball player David Batista has his £5,000 sport chair back after a sting operation involving the police led to its return.
Percy Hutchful, coach...
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
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CELEBRATING BRIXTON PEOPLE
What does it mean to belong in Brixton?
Michael Groce and Charlotte Knowles on the making of a film about Brixton and its people
The Coldharbour Project is a 360˚ virtual reality (VR)...
Local history
Learn about the history of Brixton at the heritage festival
Lambeth Heritage Festival is a September month-long festival led by Lambeth Archives and the Lambeth Local History Forum.
For history buffs there is plenty to...