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…
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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…
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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…
read moreNew 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.
read moreHarmony Bar – Railton Road
There is yet another application to extend the Harmony Bar building (formerly Mingles, which replaced the George Pub burned down in the 1981 Brixton Riots). For those wishing to comment it can be found under reference 12/04161/FUL on the Lambeth…
read more78 Lingham Street – site of former Brewery Tap Pub
In a decision notice issued on 24th December, Lambeth Planning granted permission for the site of the former Brewery Tap pub at 78 Lingham Street to be redeveloped by City and Provincial Properties as a block of 8 flats. The…
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A planning application was submitted on 20th November to add two 2 bedroom flats in the roof space of Suffolk House – with six velux windows to the front roof and a mansard roof extension to the rear. The application…
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A planning appeal is again underway on the proposal to build a block of flats overlooking the Brixton Water Lane entrance to Brockwell Park. We reported on the original planning application last year. That application was refused by Planning Committee…
read morePublic Meetings Brixton NEP
Lambeth is holding two public meetings on its Brixton Neighbourhood Enhancement Programme (NEP) proposals on Thursday, 29th and Saturday, 1st December (NOT the 20th and 24th November as in our earlier posts – Lambeth has had to change both dates…
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Our next committee meeting which is our AGM is at 7pm on Thursday 13 June 2013, in the Vida Walsh Centre.
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Loughborough Junction convenience store wars
The Brixton Hill/Brixton Road corridor may be reaching saturation point in terms of Tesco Express and Sainsbury Local facias and Tescos at odds with public opinion with their proposed conversion of the George IV to a convenience store. Previously neglected…
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