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Plan for 21-storey office tower in central Brixton
Plans for a 21-storey tower in central Brixton have been unveiled by the owners of Brixton Village and Market Row.
It would sit on the current site of Sports Direct and Flannels on Pope’s Road and provide an “office eco-system” with 200,000 square feet of space.
The recently sold 11-storey Blue...
MUSIC HIGH FIVE: Ese Okorodudu shares Brixton memories
…where we hi-five local musical movers and shakers. We ask five questions to get to know the people who play regularly or contribute in other ways to Brixton’s live music scene. This month it’s the turn of Ese Okorodudu
What do you do and where do you do it?
I’m a...
Brixton Village owners seek new retail manager
The owners of Brixton Village and Market Row are advertising for a retail manager for the two sites following the departure of Alistair Maddox as director of project development.
Applicants will need experience of high-footfall destinations and a “passion” for commercial results.
The advertisement for the job says the two sites...
Sad times for music lovers but plenty to celebrate
The way to pay tribute to that which is past is to celebrate and support what we still have, says Dave Randall, bidding farewell to an inspiration and an institution that will both be sorely missed in Brixton
Though the festival season is in full flow and musical treats abound,...
Plans for Brixton markets published as purchase of Sports Direct site confirmed
Lambeth council’s planning committee will next month consider plans that could lead to significant changes in the character of Brixton Village and Market Row – the large covered markets run by Hondo Enterprises that took them over last year.
The application was published as Hondo confirmed reports that it has...
Brixton’s Windrush Square Veg Invasion
Brixton is braced for a vegetable invasion of Windrush Square and the market on 6 April. A family fun day running from 11am to 4pm will encourage kids to “Eat Them To Defeat Them”.
It’s part of the ITV-backed Veg Power campaign that uses a new approach to promote vegetables.
Incredible...
Atlantic Road to be transformed and Ferndale and Railton Roads to be ‘low traffic’
Atlantic Road in Brixton is to be “transformed” to benefit people walking, cycling and using buses with funds from the Liveable Neighbourhoods programme run by Transport for London and the mayor of London.
Brixton will get a share of more than £50 million funding for projects under the scheme.
TfL said...
Brixton Soup Kitchen: ‘We don’t just do food here’
Brixton Soup Kitchen is extending its help to local people in need by offering confidence-boosting counselling.
Kitchen founder Solomon Smith has teamed up with life coach Sarah Jones to run regular "motivation" sessions at the Coldharbour Lane base, helping to give visitors the confidence to get into work.
On Friday (1...
A place for jazz
If you had searched, as I did, for “Brixton” in the 68-page programme for last month’s London Jazz Festival, you would have drawn a total blank.
Where were the Effra, 414, Market House, Hootananny, Off the Cuff, The Junction … and more besides?
Whinge over – on Brixton’s borders stand three...
Hill Mead school’s winter windows light up Brixton
There was a buzz of excitement as children and parents from Brixton's Hill Mead primary gathered outside Brixton's Department Store to see their handiwork illuminated in an eight window light show. The Winter Windows switch on took place on Friday 30 November at 4.30pm.
Winter Windows is a series of eight...
Brixton lecturers strike over pay and cuts
Lecturers at Lambeth College in Brixton went on strike for two days to win higher pay and more government spending on further education. And there could be more action if things don’t improve.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) picketed the Brixton Hill campus – formerly Brixton College...
Brixton businesses vote to renew improvement district
The Brixton Business Improvement District (BID) will operate for another five years after 500-plus local businesses voted to renew its remit.
The result was announced by a Lambeth council returning officer in the town hall this morning (1 November).
Some 302 of 513 eligible businesses, a turnout of 59%, voted by...
Brixton McDonald’s to be picketed tomorrow morning
Brixton McDonald’s will be picketed tomorrow morning (4 October) as part of a campaign against low pay and zero-hour contracts that is backed by the Trades Union Congress, the umbrella body for all British unions, and the charity War on Want.
Members of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union...
Council launches consultation on new licensing policy
Lambeth council has begun to consult residents on its licensing policy for the borough. as is it is required by law to do every five years.
The consultation comes as complaints about noise in Brixton continue and as campaigners in Hackney, East London, oppose a new licensing policy there that,...
Don Letts on 50 years of Trojan Records
Trojan Records is 50 years old this month.
Brixton’s Turtle Bay and its sister restaurants have marked the occasion by working with music legend Don Letts on a second series of hour-long “Reggae 45” podcasts – the first of which explores the history and music of Trojan.
The first series –...
Brixton bling comes at a price
A luxury speaker manufacturer that began life in Pop Brixton has launched an uncompromisingly specified and priced high powered wireless speaker, said to offer sound reproduction superior to a CD.
The new BoomBocs BRX v2.0 speaker starts at £699 – plus £99 for a 20-hour battery if you want to...
‘Substantial profit’ as Brixton Market sale confirmed for £37.25 million
London and Associated Properties plc, the former owner of Brixton Village and Market Row, announced today (27 April) that it had completed their sale for £37.25 million.
In a statement, the company said: “Last valued at 31 December 2016, the sale represents a substantial profit over the stated book value...
A Family Affair: Petare review
Nick Buglione discovers Venezuelan arepas at Pop’s Petare
Arepa! Until the other day, what I knew about Venezuelan street food you could write on a stamp. Enter Rotsen Ibarra and family, hosts of Pop’s latest arrival Petare.
I know it’s borderline sacrilege to say this, but I never quite got the...
Brixton’s working mothers on the map
An exhibition by photographer Fiona Freund will put Brixton’s working mothers on the map as part of this year’s International Women’s Day celebrations.
MotherWorks is the vision of local creative team (and working mums) Mothers of Invention and is an insight into the brilliant and often bizarre duality of working...
Brockwell Lido free for all
(sponsored Blogpost) For those who only know the Brockwell Lido as a place for a summer dip, you are invited to get to know it indoors as well as out. There is a lot more on offer right now than an icy midwinter swim
Fusion Lifestyle, the Lido’s not-for-profit managers,...