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Ed Sutton with microphone speaking at a rally at Lewisham Town Hall, July 2025. CND and Stop the War banners behind him.

Campaigners watchful as Greens take over Lewisham Pensions Investment Committee

The new chair of the PIC is Green councillor Ed Sutton, a leading local campaigner for divestment for Palestine. But recent pension reforms create new challenges for divestment.

Image across water - modern mulitstorey warehouse-like building on banks of Thames.

AI demands 'through the roof' - are London's new data centres undermining climate goals?

Workers in high vis and heavy machinery and diggers behind fencing in the park.

Hospital heat pump project starts on Ladywell Fields nature conservation site

crane moving debris at the burnt out warehouse.

Clean up begins after fire at Deptford recycling transfer station

Fox and cubs crossing a bridge at night time, water with rubbish floating in it below.

Endling: Extinction is Forever - can a video game raise awareness of the climate crisis?

Choir standing behind a woman at a microphone, waiting to sing.

Courage, strength and solidarity: Lewisham charity invites you to celebrate Refugee Week

Huge fire at Deptford recycling centre

Huge fire at Deptford recycling centre

Housing

CGI of Printworks from above and north east, lit up against sunset and London skyline.

Canada Water: Printworks change goes to consultation

Developers British Land and Australian Super propose a change to enlarge the cultural centre, but retaining the iconic Press Halls and Inkwell spaces.

Victorian brick building with large frame windows, cars on road outside.

Childers Street, Deptford: Lewisham refuses change of use for 'luxury' student accommodation

CGI of plans showing new Morrisons store and part of high rise housing block.

Aylesham Centre, Peckham: Berkeley plans dismissed on heritage grounds

CGI of Scott House looking south down Grove Street, 31-storey tower block.

Scott House: YourTribe submit duplicate plans, campaigners call out 'gameplay'

Man in shirt and tie showing slides on screen to audience in front of banner "Centre for London".

London's housing crisis is about affordability, not supply

Candidates and residents pose for picture, most grinning, V for Victory signs and clenched fists.

Labour no show at Deptford hustings

Image of glass building at end of pier which developers say will be a restaurant, campaigners sceptical.

Convoys Wharf, Deptford: London's new emergency housebuilding rules heighten local fears

Active Travel

Very hot and bright yellow sun with clouds around

London's May heatwave has 'fingerprints of climate change all over it'

Sunshine, heat and traffic is driving air pollution - Lewisham's high ozone levels have already breached government limits for the entire year.

Mourners have left flowers and notes at the site of the collision on Sanford Street.

Campaigners' worst fears: fatal accident on Sanford Street Deptford

Children peddling at the front, adults behind, the bike bus sets off from Bridgehouse Meadows.

New Cross: nerves, excitement and joy - join the bike bus!

Bike bus sets off from Bridgehouse Meadows, children peddling at the front, adults behind.

North Lewisham's new bike bus has its first outing

Newly widened pavement and new zebra crossing (under wraps) at Harefield Road and road works to widen pavement on west side of Brockley Road, cyclist navigating the single lane.

Brockley Road safety scheme begins but more roads ask to join

drawings showing that higher bonnets knocking pedestrians under the vehicle, while lower bonnets deflect them.

SUV proliferation in London: '77% more likely to kill a child'

Parent and child cycling through the tunnel with another walking through. No motor vehicles sign.

'End of the nightmare': campaigners celebrate pedestrianisation win at Cold Blow Lane, New Cross

Climate

Ed Sutton with microphone speaking at a rally at Lewisham Town Hall, July 2025. CND and Stop the War banners behind him.

Campaigners watchful as Greens take over Lewisham Pensions Investment Committee

The new chair of the PIC is Green councillor Ed Sutton, a leading local campaigner for divestment for Palestine. But recent pension reforms create new challenges for divestment.

Image across water - modern mulitstorey warehouse-like building on banks of Thames.

AI demands 'through the roof' - are London's new data centres undermining climate goals?

Fox and cubs crossing a bridge at night time, water with rubbish floating in it below.

Endling: Extinction is Forever - can a video game raise awareness of the climate crisis?

Workers in high vis and heavy machinery and diggers behind fencing in the park.

Hospital heat pump project starts on Ladywell Fields nature conservation site

Plane landing at London City Airport under stormy sky, tower blocks and HSBC building in background.

Call to pause London City Airport expansion to assess noise impacts

crowds of people, bunting and people sitting on grass outside the café at the opening celebration.

Ladywell Fields: long-awaited new café opens amid construction fears

Heat map of north America showing average temperatures in different regions during the tournament dates, darkest red in southern US states.

Heat danger: climate crisis collides with World Cup

Community

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Courage, strength and solidarity: Lewisham charity invites you to celebrate Refugee Week

Selce's summer of DIY - empowering communities with retrofit skills

Green Roots: new trees and green skills training for communities across Lewisham

Eastfield buy Ravensbourne Arms but backtrack on HMO plan

Liam Shrivastava: 1000 new social rent homes and 'unequivocally pro-refugee'

Nature

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Endling: Extinction is Forever - can a video game raise awareness of the climate crisis?

Hospital heat pump project starts on Ladywell Fields nature conservation site

Ladywell Fields: long-awaited new café opens amid construction fears

Green Roots: new trees and green skills training for communities across Lewisham

'Environmental racism': council approves rubber crumb football pitch at Whitefoot Lane, Downham

Art & Design

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Shunya, the ethical Etsy alternative that started in Deptford

Murals at Foxborough Gardens, Ladywell restored - 1960s public art for 'ordinary people'

"Unsightly" New Cross hoarding on the way out

Ladywell Playtower: step on-site (just for one day)

SEEN Lewisham exhibitions: Bun n Cheese, the Caribbean Living Room .. and This is England