CINEMA PRICE TICKET IS £5 MILLION SAY CHURCH’S AGENTS

Image: Picture Palace Campaign / Cinema4Crystal Palace CINEMA PRICE TICKET IS £5 MILLION SAY CHURCH'S AGENTS The church which owns the cinema building at 25 Church Road are asking a massive FIVE MILLION pounds for it. Agents acting for KICC (Kingsway International Christian Centre)  are offering the cinema building as a "refurbished bingo/cinema building or …

FOOD MARKET – SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM….AND A LIBRARY OF THINGS

FOOD MARKET - SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM....AND A LIBRARY OF THINGS (plus South Norwood country park / St Christopher's hospice and People for Portland Road) Crystal Palace is getting a Library of Things! What's a Library of Things, I hear you ask? Well, it's a place you can borrow a ladder, sewing machine, tent, drill, …

GRENFELL TOWER DISASTER: CLADDING TO BE REMOVED FROM THREE BUILDINGS IN LEWISHAM

GRENFELL TOWER DISASTER: CLADDING TO BE REMOVED FROM THREE BUILDINGS IN LEWISHAM Lewisham council and Lewisham Homes have ordered the removal of cladding from three buildings in New Cross following advice from the London Fire Brigade. The three buildings are: 1–48 Hatfield Close, SE14 49–96 Hatfield Close, SE14 Gerrard House, SE14. Lewisham Homes has written …

CALLING ALL SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH FILM MAKERS!

CALLING ALL SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH FILM MAKERS! Budding filmmakers from Southwark and Lambeth are being invited to come along to watch some of the latest films, and fire questions at the filmmakers and the people leading the prized training. This year, up to four projects from ambitious filmmakers living in the two boroughs will be …

POLICE OFFICER THREATENED WITH LOADED SHOTGUN

POLICE OFFICER THREATENED WITH LOADED SHOTGUN Detectives are appealing for witnesses and information after a police officer was threatened with a shotgun while another had a moped driven at him on Anerley Road. At around 23:30hrs on Wednesday, 28 June plain clothes officers from Bromley Crime Squad were carrying out patrols in the Betts Park …

LAMBETH COUNCIL SHOCK: QUIETWAY CYCLE ROUTE PLANS SHELVED AFTER GO-AHEAD GIVEN

LAMBETH COUNCIL SHOCK: QUIETWAY CYCLE ROUTE PLANS SHELVED AFTER GO-AHEAD GIVEN Lambeth council have dramatically shelved plans for a new cycleway - which includes Gipsy Hill as part of its route - AFTER they were given the go-ahead by a cabinet member. The shock move was announced after Lambeth's Conservative opposition leader Cllr Tim Briggs …

MORE THAN 260 PEOPLE SIGNED PETITION OPPOSING CYCLE ROUTE PLANS

MORE THAN 260 PEOPLE SIGNED PETITION OPPOSING CYCLE ROUTE PLANS More than 260 people signed a petition opposing the Quietway 7 plans for Gipsy Hill and Paxton Place. Signatories to the petition, organised by Paxton Pharmacy on Gipsy Hill, said they did NOT support the proposed cycle route Quietway along Gipsy Hill and “two way” …

LAMBETHWATCH (WE HAVEN'T GONE AWAY. OR GIVEN UP)

LAMBETHWATCH (WE HAVEN'T GONE AWAY. OR GIVEN UP):  LAMBETH COUNCIL'S 'BLUE MOON' MOMENT Lambeth council have shelved plans for the Quietway 7 route despite them getting the go-ahead from Lambeth cabinet member Cllr Jennifer Brathwaite. Cllr Brathwaite, Lambeth's cabinet member for environment and housing,says: "The appendices that were attached to my decision do not provide …

QUIETWAY 7: RESIDENTS VIEWS BEING IGNORED "Why I called in decision" – Cllr Tim Briggs

QUIETWAY 7: RESIDENTS VIEWS BEING IGNORED "Why I called in decision" - Cllr Tim Briggs Lambeth's Conservative opposition leader Cllr Tim Briggs said he called in the Quietway 7 decision after being told by Conservative activists in Thurlow Park and Gipsy Hill  that Labour councillors were fobbing them off and refusing to respond to concerns …

QUIETWAY 7: LETTER FROM CLLR BRATHWAITE TO CLLR BRIGGS

QUIETWAY 7: LETTER FROM CLLR BRATHWAITE TO CLLR BRIGGS Dear Tim I wanted to let you know that I have decided to withdraw the decision “Quietway 7”. A north-south cycle route to the east of the borough is a substantial project that has the potential to benefit the lives of tens of thousands of our …