Tag: Save Our Shops

Network Rail’s attempts to sell its railway arches and other property is being hit by the campaign group Guardians of the Arches. As we reported...

The shocking rent rises in central Brixton have put yet another local institution in jeopardy. Brixton Wholefoods, a fixture on Atlantic Road for nearly 40...

Ray Murphy, who has been selling carpets on Brixton’s Atlantic Road for more than 25 years, has challenged the chief executive of Network Rail...

What happens when you are evicted from your Brixton shop of 11 years? Anna McKie finds out Husband and wife Mohammed and Shahida Shafiq stand...

Traders on Brixton Station Road have banded together to demand action from Lambeth council on the blight afflicting the road as a result of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSeuxc3L3s4 Local Green Party activist Rashid Nix has taken to YouTube to highlight the problems created by Network Rail’s closure of its arches on...

Brixton retailers and other traders are facing a double threat from huge business rate increases and the blight on the centre of the shopping...

Groups from across Lambeth have called a demonstration to protest at what they say is Lambeth council’s “high-handed, ill-informed decisions and its refusal to...

Brixton residents gathered tonight to show solidarity with traders facing eviction from Network rail's Brixton town centre arches. Despite a long  battle, and an unprecedented...

Lambeth council is offering a contract of up to £50,000 for architects to draw up plans to “regenerate” Atlantic Road. The Architects’ Journal reports that the...

One of the highlights of last night’s Lambeth council planning committee meeting that backed redevelopment of Brixton Arches by owner Network Rail, was the...

Lambeth council’s planning committee last night approved plans for the redevelopment of Brixton’s historic railway arches. Councillor Clair Wilcox, chair of the committee, repeatedly told...

Lambeth council will, as expected, back Network Rail’s plans for the arches on Atlantic Road and Brixton Station Road at a planning committee meeting...

Gentrification is inevitable, remorseless and devoid of conscience  – and won’t be stopped by shaming pop-ups, says Nick Buglione Gentrification. Brixton. Hot topic. Everyone’s fave...

Pupils from Stockwell primary school left the classroom yesterday for Brixton’s threatened arches where they interviewed traders due to be evicted by Network Rail,...

If you are not already one of the 140-plus people who have objected to Network Rail’s plans for Brixton Arches, you still have until...