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Our post on Lewisham’s efforts to improve recycling rates prompted several questions on Twitter. Here Luke Ellis, a council officer who talked to the Ladywell…

Youth First, a community benefit society set up to sustain and grow youth work in Lewisham at a time of cuts, is looking for a…

What follows is an edited summary of the Safer Neighbourhood Panel meeting in May. The Safer Neighbourhood Team will be at the local assembly on…

Community groups working to make Lewisham greener have until 23 June to apply for funds from Lewisham’s Greening Fund. The money can be spent on…

In 2011, the Ladywell Village Improvement Group ran a determined campaign to have the empty flats above the Coral betting shop on 228-230 Algernon Road…

Lewisham Council is proposing to increase resident and business parking permit charges for vehicles with higher CO2 emissions and introduce an additional surcharge on the…

Children of Lewisham – it’s time to reclaim the streets. Playing in urban areas is being threatened by encroaching development and the dominance of traffic.…

Lawn bowls has been played in England since at least 1299. It attracted players from all ranks of society from Tudor kings and queens to…

Lewisham Mayor Damien Egan has talked to Ladywell Live about the environment; healthy neighbourhoods; recycling; social housing; knife crime, assembly funds and speeding. In response…

What is the Local Assembly? Local Assemblies have been a feature of Lewisham’s work with communities since 2008 and form part of the Council’s Constitution,…