Arts & culture
The Arzner: LGBTQ+ cinema proposed for Bermondsey Square
This week councillors will decide on a licence application to reopen the former cinema in Bermondsey Square as a venue with a focus on LGBTQ+ film.
In our politics coverage we keep an eye on Southwark Council, Lambeth Council and the Greater London Authority (Mayor and Assembly)
Arts & culture
This week councillors will decide on a licence application to reopen the former cinema in Bermondsey Square as a venue with a focus on LGBTQ+ film.
Food & drink
London Bridge Station could soon gain a Wetherspoon's pub, with the chain planning a new boozer in part of the former London Dungeon premises on Tooley Street.
Transport
Leading Southwark politicians have used the weeks since the general election to urge the new Government to support the Bakerloo line extension.
Planning & Development
Southwark Council has rejected a proposal to change the hours during which the public can use the pedestrian routes through the luxury Neo Bankside development next to Tate Modern.
Planning & Development
Plans to convert an office building in Borough High Street into a 47-bedroom hotel have been submitted to Southwark Council.
Planning & Development
A Government-appointed planning inspector has ruled that a defunct red phone box outside the Waterloo Action Centre can be used as a coffee kiosk, overturning Lambeth Council's decision to veto the proposal.
Politics & local government
Labour's Florence Eshalomi has been re-elected - after four and a half years in Parliament - as MP for the new Vauxhall and Camberwell Green constituency.
Politics & local government
Neil Coyle reiterated his apology for his behaviour in the last Parliament as he began his fourth term as Bermondsey & Old Southwark MP.
Southwark
Southwark Council is planning to sell a high-value council house yards away from Borough Market.
Transport
TfL has revealed that it is considering dumping its approved office block scheme for the Southwark Tube Station site in favour of a student accommodation scheme.
Lambeth
A Government-appointed planning inspector has overturned Lambeth Council's decision to reject plans for an 186-bedroom hotel opposite Lambeth North Station.
Elephant & Castle
52 homes built as part of the Elephant & Castle regeneration programme have been empty for the last five years – and it could be two years or more until residents can move back in.
Bermondsey
Long Lane is to get a new zebra crossing at the junction with Wild's Rents under new Southwark Council proposals recently given formal approval.
Southwark
Plans to merge two Southwark primary schools near Elephant & Castle have been called off after the proposals faced opposition from staff and parents.
Southwark
Government funds notionally reallocated from the cancelled second phase of the High Speed 2 rail line north of Birmingham have been used to repair road surfaces and pavements in three streets north of the Old Kent Road, Southwark Council said this week.
Politics & local government
Six years after the City of London Corporation decided to fit sprinklers in its three high-rise towers on the Avondale Square Estate, the new system has successfully extinguished a chip pan fire.
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