The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced that local authorities, suffering from years of Government cuts, will receive a share of his new £10m fund to help deliver more council homes. Lewisham Council have been awarded £525,000 by the GLA from the Homebuilding Capacity Fund to ensure future growth and investment within the borough is properly planned with a particular focus on delivering a new generation of council homes. The successful bid covers three key areas

I wanted to write this in response to a recent article on the Tidemill development in Deptford (you can read it here). There are some who are opposing this development. But I thought people deserved to hear the other side of this story. The housing crisis (along with politically driven austerity) is the greatest challenge facing London and our community in Lewisham. The Tories don’t really care about the housing crisis. But we do. We set out a manifesto for the local election