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Liam Shrivastava smiling in suit with green rosette, green leaves behind.

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

Lewisham Green mayoral candidate Liam Shrivastava has plans for community-led house-building, delivering 1000 social homes and calls out the Labour government immigration raids.

People standing in the square and sitting on benches listening to speakers in early evening sun at Deptford hustings. g

Democratic deficit: What happened to Lewisham's hustings?

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

Labour no show at Deptford hustings

Satellite image of the Gulf of Mexico, blue ocean, with green landmass of US and Mexico coasts.

New data shows Lewisham still invested in US oil and gas

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

Backs of heads - rows of people at The Bear pub watching a screening of Paddington Bear.

New Cross and Deptford free film festival opens Friday

Man in blue jacket smiling broadly, Lewisham High Street behind.

Sylbourne Sydial: The people of Lewisham are my boss, not Kemi

Local Elections 2026

Liam Shrivastava smiling in suit with green rosette, green leaves behind.

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

Lewisham Green mayoral candidate Liam Shrivastava has plans for community-led house-building, delivering 1000 social homes and calls out the Labour government immigration raids.

People standing in the square and sitting on benches listening to speakers in early evening sun at Deptford hustings. g

Democratic deficit: What happened to Lewisham's hustings?

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

Labour no show at Deptford hustings

Man in blue jacket smiling broadly, Lewisham High Street behind.

Sylbourne Sydial: The people of Lewisham are my boss, not Kemi

Josh Matthews smiling against green foliage background.

Josh Matthews: Citizens assemblies not culture wars

Lewisham civic suite, foyer to glass office building with council crest at the right.

Lewisham local elections: Who are your councillor candidates?

Zack Polanski with Hannah Spencer MP, looking at someone out of shot and smiling broadly after the launch.

Deptford: Greens launch campaign to topple Labour across London

Housing

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

New research from Centre for London shows housing availability in London in 2024 was around the same as it was in 2002, indicating that supply is not the overarching issue.

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

View of site through windows of glass building - the only building that has been built. Convoys Wharf sign visible through window

'Should we be marching on the lot?': A new book charts Deptford’s decades-long resistance

Fix the Five Basics campaigners at Newham council talking to officers with banner "Fix the Five Basics" with icon of each.

London’s temporary accommodation crisis - Lewisham pledges 'five basics’

Red curved boardwalk over new wetlands, already provided in phase 1.

'Dangerous precedent' - Canada Water regeneration approved with 9% affordable housing

Is mid-rise housing the key to solving London's housing crisis?

Is mid-rise housing the key to solving London's housing crisis?

Transport

Sadiq Khan speaking with 2 paramedics from London Ambulance Service, ambulance in the background. rkers

SUV dangers: new road safety plans 'not anti-motorist, anti-death', says Sadiq Khan

31% of London's cars are now SUVs and they present a greater danger to pedestrians than other cars, children under nine are at the highest risk of death.

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'

Cyclist on busy road, Hammersmith and Fulham

Almost half of cyclists feel unsafe on London's roads

Narrow underpass below the south circular at Catford, covered in graffiti.

Is Catford Station Links project moving at last?

Two Forest bikes at Albacore Crescent outside Lewisham Hospital, one parked in the marked bay, one on the pavement.

'Excellent news': Lewisham on brink of new agreement with Forest and Lime e-bike operators

Smiling woman standing next to car which is charging with cross-pavement charging cable embedded in pavement.

Good news for EV owners - if you live in Greenwich, anyway

Two cyclists waiting to cross Old Kent Road at the redesigned junction to join the new link.

Old Kent Road: new link to Cycleway 62 at Ilderton Road

Climate

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New data shows Lewisham still invested in US oil and gas

Josh Matthews: Citizens assemblies not culture wars

Can London survive future heatwaves without air con?

Energy-efficient and flicker-free - Selce's new share offer is all about LEDs

London Plan will have dedicated data centre policy to address energy and water demands

Community

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

New Cross and Deptford free film festival opens Friday

Sylbourne Sydial: The people of Lewisham are my boss, not Kemi

Josh Matthews: Citizens assemblies not culture wars

Dinner on the Hill: Lewisham’s one-of-a-kind and completely free restaurant

Nature

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

The Greening of the Telegraph Hill Festival

Will we lose Crossness nature reserve for the 'false promise' of CCS?

CCS comes to SE London: climate solution or fossil fuel scam?

Council ignores health risks in plans for rubber crumb pitch at Whitefoot Lane, Downham