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‘They’re buying Brixton brick by brick’ – Locals protest as tower vote looms

Brixton activists took to the streets yesterday ahead of a council decision on plans for an unpopular new office tower.

Campaign to save Brixton’s Nour Cash and Carry as landlords serve notice

More than 3,500 people have signed a petition to save Nour Cash and Carry in Brixton, which was served with

Director aims to shine a light on class divides in Soho play

A play that explores themes of gentrification and political and class divisions will be staged in a church in Soho

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Thousands in bid to see London’s final greyhound race as Wimbledon Stadium closes

Almost 8,000 people turned up to the 3,000 capacity Wimbledon Stadium on Saturday to witness London’s last ever greyhound race. Queues

Streatham Hill hipsters: Meet the brave entrepreneurs setting up shop in SW16

The betting shops are packing up and the wine shops are opening up – previously voted Britain’s worst street in

Lambeth council estate documentary aims to ‘humanise the inhumane process of gentrification’

A documentary maker is hoping to humanise London’s gentrification debate with his film examining a Lambeth council estate’s destruction screening

Much-loved Southfields newsagent at risk of closure as family fall victim to new planning laws

Southfield’s spirited community is rallying around family at risk of being ‘turfed out’ from their newsagents business after 29 years

Brixton Splash 2016 cancelled as Lambeth Council cite £500,000 policing cost and ‘flagrant drug use’

Annual street party Brixton Splash, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2015, will not go ahead in 2016 after Lambeth

‘It will succeed where the Luftwaffe failed’: London Assembly Green Party candidate slams Housing Bill

The government’s housing bill was condemned as ‘worse than the Luftwaffe bombings’ by a Green Party London Assembly candidate at

‘Transformation not gentrification’: One man’s mission to celebrate ‘original Brixton’

Windows of brightly coloured squares, like a row of Piet Mondrian paintings, stand stark against the grey and red brick. 

Croydon redevelopment faces more criticism over ‘cookie-cutter’ plans and high costs for small businesses

A Croydon business owner has criticised developers and planners for pricing out small businesses from having a say in the

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