Lewisham’s gardeners are singing the brown bin blues. The cost of the council’s weekly garden waste collection service has from April 1 gone up from…
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Blooming marvellous – how street trees help create healthy neighbourhoods
You may have noticed newly planted street trees in the pavements of Ladywell, writes Dom Eliot. These are probably the work of Street Trees for Living,…
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At a time when council services are being cut and squeezed by the government’s punishing austerity measures, assembly funding has proved a lifeline to many…
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Sir Alexander Nisbet was a naval surgeon, an honorary physician to Queen Victoria and a resident of Lee for many years. When he died in…
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PLACE/Ladywell, the UK’s first pop-up village for families forced to live in B&Bs, is set to be moved to make way for 200 homes in…
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The build-up to Brockley Max 2019 is well under way. Organisers are already looking for volunteers to help with staging the festival, people who want…
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The ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ) came into effect in central London on April 8 2019 in a move to clean up the city’s air. It…
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Some of Lewisham’s traffic clogged streets may be about to get a breather. The council is rolling out a £2m Healthy Neighbourhoods programme of local…
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Russ, the members-led community land trust, hopes to start the early site preparation for its house building project in Church Grove, Ladywell, in the summer…
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Lewisham Council and Glendale are to crack down on moped and motorbike users riding illegally through Ladywell Fields park. Local people fear the motorbike riders…