Christine Davis, who is based at Mottingham Library, is an enthusiastic amateur historian who is well-known to colleagues and customers due to her love of architecture and her popular monthly talks on London’s past.
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Chelsea beat Everton 1-0 to get back into the top five. Excitement was minimal, but the points are what counts.
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Several new planning documents have been added to a planning application submitted by Bexley council to redevelop the former Bexley Maternity Hospital building on Erith Road and build several new buildings on the site.
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Data obtained by a housing support group through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request shows 62 per cent of four bedroom homes and 51 per cent of three bedroom homes in Lambeth were allocated through the council choosing households directly.
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Representatives from the Marylebone Association, the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Forum and the Soho Society have warned London Assembly members against approving Sadiq Khan’s plans as they currently stand.
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Greenwich council has approved an application for a sixth resident and a rear extension added to 17 Moordown – an end-of-terrace home on a residential street between Woolwich Common and Shrewsbury Park – which garnered 50 objections from local residents.
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The Housing Ombudsman found the local authority ‘over-promised’ and had also not prepared a Personal Housing Plan (PHP) for the individual, named Mr X, describing the error as causing an ‘injustice’.
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Between 8.20am and 8.40am on Monday, March 31, a man boarded at Hounslow Central, and asked another man to move bags from the seat and a buggy blocking the carriage.
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At around 9.30pm on Tuesday, March 18, a man was on the train from London Bridge to Woolwich Arsenal when a group of three girls assaulted him.
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Local businesses and residents on Amesbury Avenue in Streatham fear the package of proposed changes to their street will ruin local shops and make the area a magnet for antisocial behaviour.
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Enable Leisure and Culture has won a licence to hold Country in the Common, on Tooting Common, over one weekend later this year which would feature ‘country, roots, folk, blues and associated Americana music genres’.
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A property tribunal calculated that the ground floor studio flat in Blackheath would be worth £1,400 per month based on market rate, but determined it is actually worth £1,183 per month due to its “lack of modernisation” and “general disrepair”.
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Adriana Schwab said Housing for Women hiked her monthly service charge to £99 without proper explanation and claims many of the services aren’t being provided.
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Since the Met closed its office in Seven Islands Leisure Centre in Rotherhithe at the end of March, bobbies covering the area have been based three miles away at Southwark Police Station on Borough High Street.
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Hammersmith and Fulham council has applied to vary its licence at St Paul’s Green to extend its hours and remove an existing limit on when it can be used. Currently the licence is only available for one Thursday, Friday and Saturday in October a year.
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The local authority said residents were moved on once issues were raised with the properties it purchased in haste after the fire in 2017 displaced a large number of Grenfell residents. Some were never occupied due to safety issues such as unusual layouts or fire escape problems, according to a council report.
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The West London locality, in which all schools are rated either good or outstanding by Ofsted, was closely followed by neighbouring Kensington and Chelsea, where 74.8 per cent of pupils got an offer from their first-choice destination.
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Last week, Greenwich council’s cabinet recommended that King William Walk be designated a prohibited street for itinerant ice cream trading, with a final decision to be made at an upcoming full council meeting.
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While Mayor Jason Perry says the historic Heathfield House is not for sale, opponents say a 125-year lease amounts to handing it over to a private owner for more than a century.
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