A developer, May Developments (Brixton) Ltd, is proposing to redevelop the Canterbury Arms, on the corner of Pope’s Road and Canterbury Crescent, with a new nine storey residential and community use building. They are holding a public exhibition on their…
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GEORGE IV and TESCO
Tesco’s plans to turn the George IV pub on Brixton Hill into a “Tesco Express” suffered a setback at last evening’s Planning Application Committee (PAC) meeting held in Lambeth Town Hall. At issue were four applications to alter the front…
Brixton SPD – Final Week
The consultation on the Brixton Supplementary Planning Document – which has the potential to shape the future of Brixton for the next decade or more – closes this Friday, 15th March. You still have time to have your voice heard….
Minicab office next to McDonalds turned down
Lambeth have refused planning permission for the newsagents and general store next to McDonalds on Brixton Road to set up a mini cab control point in the front part of the shop. The society objected to this proposal because it…
200 Coldharbour Lane – takeaway refused
200 Coldharbour Lane, on the corner of Flaxman Road is a corner shop which for many years was run as a house clearance second hand junk shop (see photo below). The second hand furniture shop closed last autumn, and an…
Brixton SPD – Future Brixton
The consultation period on the Brixton Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), which will set the direction for Brixton over the next decade, has now started. It closes on Friday 15 March 2013. Lambeth has set up a special website: www.futurebrixton.org giving information…
Suffolk House, Rushcroft Road
Our original article in mid-December flagged up this application for a mansard roof extension on Suffolk House, Rushcroft Road. Lambeth Planning have refused permission in a decision notice dated 15th January 2013. Reasons: The proposed installation of a mansard roof…
Brixton Supplementary Planning Document
The draft Brixton Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) will go before Lambeth’s Cabinet on Monday, 14th January for them to agree that it can go out to public consultation. The next meeting of the Brixton Neighbourhood Forum will be given over…
New bar/restaurant proposed for Bon Marché
This conversion of existing offices would restore a licensed use to the building, having just lost the pub at the front to TK Maxx.
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Eagle Printing Works – missing date stone
Current planning applications for 304 Brixton Road have highlighted a major unauthorised change to the building within the last five years – despite it being in a conservation area. The picture on the right was taken in April 2008 and…