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HELPFUL LEGAL ADVICE
Brixton Advice Centre to leave historic Railton Road HQ
Brixton Advice Centre, a fixture on Railton Road for decades, is selling its building...
Council aid for EU residents to stay in Lambeth
Lambeth council is to fund local charities to advise European Union nationals living in...
PLANNING & HOUSING
Pope’s Road tower application withdrawn
The planning application for a 20-storery tower on Pope’s Road has been withdrawn by the applicant, the Amsterdam-registered company AG Hondo Popes Road BV.
The...
Pope’s Road tower: Hondo accused of ‘contempt’ for Brixton
Campaigners against plans to build a 20-storey tower on Pope’s Road in central said today (23 May) that the companies behind the plan have...
COUNCIL
Roti protesters call out ‘callous’ telecom giants
Herne Hill campaign group Save Umana Yana last night (7 October) staged a 10th birthday party for the telecom boxes that disrupt the business...
Council to resubmit plans for Brockwell park football pitch
Lambeth council is to submit a new planning proposal for a modern artificial football pitch in Brockwell Park near the lido.
It withdrew its first application after widespread criticism...
Protest over sewage in flat
Members of the Acorn community organisation today (25 August) demonstrated outside Lambeth town hall in Brixton to demand action from the council over the...
Council planning new artificial pitch in Brockwell Park
People living near Brockwell Park have been alarmed by consultation documents dropping through their doors showing that Lambeth council is planning to build an...
CRIME
Man stabbed in central Brixton
These were the scenes late this afternoon (4 April) outside Jennings Bet and the Academy on Stockwell Road in central Brixton.
Reports said a man...
SCHOOLS & EDUCATION
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