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I have just spoken to the Thames Water guys working in Westwood Hill. They anticipate the water will be back on what is a widely affected area by 6pm - earlier if they possibly can.

I reported a burst in Westwood Hill close to junction with Longton Grove yesterday morning at 8.10am. Water went off yesterday evening and still not on this morning.

Use class A1 retail and A3 restaurant have been agreed today. The developer will now be able to test the market.

Developers plan on being on site in September

Thanks, Rachel - your reading of my posting was correct. To reiterate. The February meeting was a pre-feasibility meeting to which some local residents and traders were invited to discuss and identify the current problems with using Kirkdale High Street. The job of the transport officers and street ...

This is at consultation stage. Follow the link in Lee's posting to see the Consultation document https://lewisham-consult.objective.co.u ... provements which will tell you this is at a Feasibility Design stage. Lewisham are (hopefully) working up a design, which is bound to change as they discover w...

The Head of Planning confirms that Lewisham has received the application for the conservatory and external stairs. They will seek to deal with this urgently whilst, at the same time, seeking to ensure that all parties have been engaged in the detail and had the opportunity to contribute their views....

I went to the last performance on Sunday and couldn't agree more. With the Brockley Jack Studio, a recognised "Offie", and the Bridge House Theatre we are well served by local buses with easy to get to venues. Add the recently opened East Dulwich Picturehouse (3-screens) which is only 20 m...

Here is a statement from Lewisham following Building Control's site meeting with Purelake: Following a number of meetings and discussions with the London Borough of Lewisham we have agreed that Purelake will return to site to start rebuilding The Greyhound on Monday 11 May. A programme of work has n...

It's interesting that the sewer works on the railway bridge has not been mentioned on this forum. For anyone interested, I stopped to ask the Thames Water guys what was going on about 10 days ago and got the following information. There has been the danger of a collapsed sewer under the railway line...

News just received from Lewisham Council: A brief update on the current position. The Council's Legal Services team yesterday wrote to Purelake advising that unless they can provide by return, a full explanation as to why this further delay is essential and was unexpected and unavoidable, together w...

All permissions are now in place and building work will start before long.

News this afternoon Purelake’s Planning Consultant advises that Purelake will be meeting Building Control on site on 30 April and intend to start works shortly thereafter. In terms of the planning application for the conservatory and stairs, this will be with Lewisham by next Monday. Further enquiri...

Obviously everyone is standing by on tenterhooks awaiting the arrival of workmen on site, which was understood to be the week beginning 13 April, this week. Also due to be submitted on the Tuesday after Easter was a planning application to Lewisham for a variation to the 2010 permission, allowing fo...

Tyre place bottom of Adamsrill Road near to j/w Perry Vale has been there for years - father/son business always been good value in my opinion.

No, no insider knowledge. Just taking a punt along with others....and looking forward to seeing the outcome of the tease....

How about 5 and 7 Kent House Road? No. 5 was a SEE3 Pop up shop but had no loo - so no great future as a retail unit on its own. However no.7 next door is empty - with the lovely ghost-sign "Steptoes" above the fascia. Long time, no trade - the interior should be interesting... Loo? Or no ...

Smoke in the Plant Room I was told at 12.30. Two fire engines parked on opposite sides of the road created quite a traffic hold up.

To add my two-pennyworth. I've lived in Longton Grove for over 20 years and it's a great area to live in. It's in inner London - and there are the odd incidents, but I've never felt threatened and frequently walk home on my own at night having been to the theatre. Over the past twelve months new whi...

Or should I say -

After all the delays let's not anyone get it wrong again. More haste, less speed. What's another few weeks for Lewisham to ensure no further breaches of the 2010 planning permission occur?