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The Latest Breaking News from Lewisham Council

Beckenham Place Park lake to reopen less than three weeks after 'heartbreaking' death of teenage boy

Izaiah Smith, 15, died on April 4 after swimming in the water in the London park

Evening Standard

Lewisham high street reopens as man detained following 15-hour knife stand off

Lewisham Council confirmed all cordons had been lifted as video appears to show police detaining someone inside property

Evening Standard

Residents return, high street reopened after knife stand-off

Lewisham Council confirmed all cordons had been lifted.

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Council parking boss behind ‘war on motorists’ in London borough was accused of ‘trying to quash own tickets’

Seamus Adams rolls out programme where those with most-polluting vehicles could pay £750 to park outside own homes

Evening Standard

Row breaks out over London council's alleged links to church accused of abuse

Rival politicians clash over Lewisham council’s dealings with the United Church of the Kingdom of God

Evening Standard

London Tories walk out of City Hall meeting in protest over 'left-wing wokery'

The protest came after the Green Party’s Zack Polanski refused to agree to host an all-male panel discussion

Evening Standard

Lewisham: Plans for borough's first travellers' site for 15 years revealed

Plans for Lewisham’s first Travellers’ site in 15 years have been revealed — next to a railway line and homes.

Evening Standard

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Protesters in Halloween costumes stage sit-in at Lewisham Council over ‘unsuitable housing’

The council is being urged to rehouse two families stuck in ‘cramped’, shared accommodation

Evening Standard

Catford Mews: Only cinema in Lewisham closed down after council repossess building

Catford Mews, Lewisham borough’s only cinema, suddenly shut its doors after council-owned landlord repossessed building over rent arrears

Evening Standard

London family wins £20,000 after council blamed mould problem on 'lifestyle'

Lewisham Council insisted a yearly mould wash was enough to deal with the problem eight years after the resident first reported a leak

Evening Standard

'I was forced to move out for doing my job - the neighbours didn't like the noise'

Fiona Fey made the touch decision to move out of her flat after neighbours repeatedly banged on the ceiling and complained any time she would try to practice her music

Daily Mirror

Musician told she'll be fined £5,000 for playing any instrument in her own home

Lewisham Council issued Fiona Fey a noise abatement notice forbidding her from singing, playing her guitar and flute

MusicRadar

London’s last ever DVD-only shop is at risk of closure

A car crashed into the shop front last year, forcing owner Gulam Charania to close for three months

Evening Standard

London council ‘kept hundreds of people in dark by failing to reply to information requests’, ICO rules

Enforcement action has been taken against Lewisham Council after it failed to respond to more than 300 Freedom of Information requests

Evening Standard

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Wales Online

Street and cars covered in so much crow faeces 'it looks like it's been snowing'

Cabbie John Dempsey said the birds are fed on junk food and has considered buying a falcon to get rid of them

Wales Online

Disabled mum forced to live in car after council evict her and daughter

She refused to move from South London to East London, so was booted out of her mouldy home

Wales Online

Disabled mum and her daughter face sleeping in their car after council evicts them

Pauline Roye, 62, and her NHS worker daughter Nashstacia Gayle, 28, have been sofa-surfing since September 28, but have no idea where they'll be sleeping tonight

Daily Mirror

Disabled mum faces living in car after refusing home as it's too far from her hospital

Pauline Royce and her daughter have been left sofa surfing and face sleeping in the car after Lewisham Council moved them out of a temporary accommodation due to a mould issue

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Daily Mirror

Furious dad vows to take council to court after being kicked off housing waiting list

Anthony Braithewaite, from South London, shares the one-bedroom flat with his two 11-year-old children and has called on Lewisham Council to grant them a bigger home, threatening legal action

Daily Mirror

Disabled tenant banned from buying his council flat because it's adapted for his needs

Antony Carter suffers from cerebral palsy and had his bathroom converted into a wet room but the adaptation has meant he isn't allowed to buy his council flat

Daily Record

Dad hit with 'absurd' parking fine after car's shadow fell on disabled spot

Matthew Cole says he is 'determined' not to pay fine, calling the claim that he was parked illegally 'absurd'.

Daily Mirror

Dad slapped with parking fine because his car's SHADOW is in disabled parking spot

Images were sent to sent to Matthew Cole which showed his Ford estate car in an unmarked bay next to a disabled spot, but only the shadow appeared to be in bay in Lewisham, south London

Liverpool Echo

Dad hit with fine after his car left a shadow in a disabled spot

Matthew said the fine was "absurd"

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