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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
New consultation on Pope’s Road tower
The mayor of London’s public consultation on plans for a development including a 20-storey tower in central Brixton has re-opened.
Running until 4 February, this consultation is...
Central government to decide Windsor Grove scrapyard appeal
A senior government minister will decide the appeal against Lambeth council’s rejection of a highly unpopular plan for a scrap metal yard in a...
COUNCIL
‘Concerted attempts’ to manipulate Brixton LTN consultation
More than a third of the responses to Lambeth council’s consultation on the Railton low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) in Brixton were excluded from consideration...
Council announces two more LTN consultations
Lambeth council is to launch a consultation next month on two more of its low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) schemes.
It will seek the views of...
Council to compensate sheltered housing residents
Lambeth council has settled out of court cases brought against it by four residents over defective building work at the listed sheltered housing scheme,...
Two thirds of Windrush Square lights not working
Brixton resident David Chambers has complained to Lambeth council and local politicians over the state of lighting in Windrush Square.
He has told them that...
CRIME
Brixton Wholefoods shut today after break-in
Brixton Wholefoods on Atlantic Road is closed today (21 October) following a break-in during which the shop was trashed.
Proprietor Hilary Waterfield said the intruder...
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