New tenants are set to open ventures in premises on Coldharbour that each, in their own way, once represented much of the Brixton that is now disappearing. Lambeth council has received an application for a revised licence for the former Club 414 on Brixton’s Coldharbour Lane. It comes from a company,...

Building owners cold shoulder creators of Club 414

Louise Barron and Tony Pommell, who created the 414 Club on Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, have been refused the chance to continue to run it. A beacon for Brixton nightlife through hard and good times, Louise and Tony started the club – which was also their home – with a small...

Brixton Market owners buy home of 414 Club

Hondo Enterprises, the owner of Brixton’s covered markets in a joint venture with the giant New York based investment manager Angelo Gordon, announced today (22 August) that they had bought the Coldharbour Lane building that housed the 414 Club. Tony Pommell and Louise Barron, who launched the 414 Club there...

Club 414 to host Mosaic Clubhouse fundraiser

Many top musicians, poets and DJs are signed up for an event to raise funds for and awareness of Brixton’s Mosaic Clubhouse. Organised by Bryan Wilson – the spoken word artist going by the name Beady Man, who is a former Mosaic service user – the event at Club 414 on...

Brixton’s Club 414 celebrates community value recognition

Club 414 proprietors Louise Barron and Tony Pommell have, at last, something to celebrate in their seemingly continual struggle to keep alive a venue that means so much to Brixton. Lambeth council has designated the Coldharbour Lane club an “asset of community value”. The move is more than mere words...

414 Club under threat from developers

"Now it's trendy, they want us out." say Club 414 owners Louise Barren and Tony Pommell. A successful Brixton business, started with a grant from Lambeth council more than 30 years ago, faces closure if a planning decision that was stopped by the High Court is reinstated. Louise Barron and Tony...

Club 414 set for new fight to save Brixton institution

Despite being knocked back by the High Court in May, the freehold owners of the Brixton institution Club 414 on Coldharbour Lane are pressing ahead with the planning application that would mean its closure. Tony Pommell said that he and his co-proprietor Louise Barron would continue to fight the application. Market Row Ltd, part of...

414 Club owner defeats council in High Court

The High Court yesterday (18 May) ordered Lambeth council to reconsider its decision to grant planning permission to redevelop Brixton’s legendary Club 414 for shops and flats. The planning permission, controversially granted by Lambeth council planning officers, and not councillors, under delegated powers, would have led to the loss of...

414 wins right to judicial review

Lambeth council planners face a new judicial review of their actions after their decisions on consultation over plans to demolish the Cressingham Gardens estate were ruled unlawful. The leaseholders of Brixton's 414 Club have now won the right to challenge the council’s planning decision to allow its home on Coldharbour Lane to be turned into a retail outlet and...

Club 414 to fight closure in High Court

By Mark Wadie The leaseholders of Brixton’s Club 414 are taking their battle to the High Court to save the venue from closure. Anthony Pommell, 59, and Louise Barron, 58, are challenging Lambeth Council's decision to approve the application to convert the premises at 414 to 416 Coldharbour Lane into a...

414 Nightclub to be turned into flats and retail outlet

By Mark Wadie Brixton clubbers have been left devastated by the news that one of the area's longest running nightclubs is set to close. Planning permission has been granted to change the building currently housing the 414 nightclub on Coldharbour Lane into a retail outlet and three self-contained residential flats. The 414...

Club 414 license restored after it is praised by police

By Tim Dickens, editor One of Brixton's longest-running night clubs, Club 414, had its license handed back by Lambeth council last night. The license had been suspended earlier this month following a shooting at the Coldharbour Lane venue that left a promoter and DJ critically ill in hospital on March 7. A...

Opinion: “414 deserves a break”

By Luke Hildyard Tonight, the Lambeth Council licensing committee will gather to decide the fate of a Brixton institution, the 414 nightclub on Coldharbour Lane. The club has been closed since the morning of Thursday March 7 after a shooting – thankfully not fatal – occurred on the dancefloor during a...

Hip hop theme for Brixton Harlem festival

The second Brixton X Harlem festival kicks off five days of events in Brixton tomorrow (16 August). This year's festival will be celebrating 50 years of hip hop across a variety of and includes a free screening of a documentary dedicated to the late James Dewitt Yancey aka Jay Dee...

Dance, music and poetry launch new Night Gallery event and architecture festival

https://youtu.be/kSQzefuv6MA Brixton Village last night (1 June) saw the launch of The Night Gallery, an event to showcase the range, depth and dynamism of Brixton’s creativity. It also served to launch Brixton’s role in the London Festival of Architecture (LFA). Full details here. One forthcoming LFA event will see Atlantic Road closed for...

Brixton hosts major architecture festival

A location that seven years ago was the centre of a bitter battle to preserve Brixton’s character will now be the site of the winning entry in a major architectural event celebrating the area. Railway arches on Atlantic Road once housed traders like Mash Brothers fishmongers and Budget Carpets. They...

Brixton launch for kids’ adventure novel

Brixton’s Round Table Books is hosting award-winning author Jasmine Richards in an event talking about her new novel The Unmorrow Curse. As well as being a novelist, Jasmine is also the founder of Storymix, a unique “story production studio”. While Jasmine has conceived, written and edited hundreds of stories, The Unmorrow Curse is her...

Only half of women in Brixton Hill feel safe walking at night – survey

Lambeth town hall in Brixton will tonight be lit in orange to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The council will also organise an online event to discuss its new Lambeth Made Safer Violence Against Women and Girls strategy. A recent survey revealed how the issue affects many local...

The local one-stop shop for your dog, cat, hamster – or sheep

The Hound Hut is Anthony Smallman’s dream and he is joined there by pet groomer Diego Jacome. Simone Richardson and her cat Ivy investigated https://youtu.be/7Yo6tS7X3zA Just off Brixton Road near Kennington Park is a place to walk your dog or carry your cat if they need grooming, food, playthings, treats, bedding, apparel, or...

Meet Brixton’s most successful publisher in his deconsecrated church

Brixton lovers will soon have a chance to get to know better two of the less well-known features that go to make us unique. If you have ever wondered why Brixton is the Church of England parish of St Matthew with St Jude, and where St Jude is, you can...

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