The authority’s executive committee has agreed to accept an unconditional offer for the freehold of the civic centre site on Stockwell Close. The proposal to put the site and several other council-owned buildings on sale was agreed in 2022 to avoid a £164 million fee to maintain and refurbish the assets.
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A petition has been raised calling on Tory-run Bromley council to review its proposed rent increase for Melvin Hall Community Group in Penge which would reportedly see the group’s bill more than double.
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Mike Jackson is leaving the chief executive role he holds for both councils, which have a shared staffing arrangement, in autumn.
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It’s thought that Macey Taylor, 16, and Billy Ross, 20, have connections to Croydon.
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Police were called at shortly before 9.30pm on Wednesday, following reports of a gunshot in Adelaide Close.
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The project will see 26 new homes being built on the site on Glebe Way, after Bromley council agreed to increase the number of affordable flats for the scheme to 100 per cent.
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The group was sentenced for the murder of Kai McGinley after detectives were able to piece together complicated CCTV evidence and place a number of them near the location of the offence.
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More than 320 work details involving digging up roads that were carried out by the water company took longer than the agreed deadline, the authority has revealed, causing disruption to residents.
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The Millwall Kick into Employment Job Fair offers candidates from all backgrounds, experience, and education levels the opportunity to speak to an abundance of local employers and providers of apprenticeships and traineeships.
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The pop-up at Glengall Wharf Gardens in Peckham is an offshoot of the not-for-profit Community Sauna Baths company which set up at Hackney Wick in 2021.
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Waldo Road reuse and recycling centre in Bromley will see works carried out on it to improve accessibility, with claims that traffic in the area has worsened as a result of residents using the site.
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Mark Kerwick, 33, of Shrublands Estate, was found guilty of possession of a firearm, and distributing class-B drugs at an earlier hearing at the same court.
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Lambeth council is in advanced negotiations to take on new build developments in the Kent and Bedfordshire towns as temporary housing. Council documents claim the accommodation will provide ‘high quality, family-sized accommodation within a reasonable travelling distance of the borough’.
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The Grade II listed Leaning Woman statue was on the Heritage at Risk Register for seven years but a campaign led by Heritage of London Trust helped restore the statue, with the support of residents and Hammersmith & Fulham council.
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Louis Collins, 29, of Lambeth, was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of eleven-and-a-half years.
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The local authority says Hopkinson House on Vauxhall Bridge Road will deliver a minimum of 33 additional temporary housing units within the borough, and that the purchase prevents the building being lost to the private sector.
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Taz Uddin, 50, of Brook Drive, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday.
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The plans for TfL to replace missing shelters were revealed in a report published by the council’s scrutiny of streets and environment sub-committee last week. These plans, subject to approval at cabinet on July 24, would see Croydon brought in line with the rest of London where TfL provides the shelters.
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Hundreds of young revellers descended on the property on Tulsemere Road in West Dulwich in the early hours of July 6, causing some people living on the suburban street to suffer a disturbed night’s sleep.
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