Very sad to hear BOBO SOCIAL is shutting down in Elephant Park - I hope this isn’t the beginning of an exodus of high quality retail as full rental rates destroying local businesses.

London SE1 Community Website

The Post Office in Walworth Road is in line to become a Popeyes fried chicken shop (thks Shauny 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 for spotting their name in the planning app docs)

🚨 Looks like the Walworth Road Post Office is in line to become a fried chicken & fast food restaurant. Planning application for kitchen ventilation says: 'It is understood the Post Office are in the process of relocating to a new site.'

➡️ planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applica…

Crampton Street seagull

The Qube - a 'workspace and members area for musicians and content creators, with offices, coworking and creative studios on a subscription basis with ancillary bar / cafe and events space' - is coming to Elephant Park (at the Rodney Place end) app.southwark.gov.uk/Licensing/LicP…

Planning application submitted for redevelopment of Chatelain House on Walworth Road (where McDonald's is located) as student accommodation planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applica…

Reputed to be the oldest building on the Walworth Road, the semi-derelict newsagents (known for its faded 'South London Press' sign) next to Poundland has changed hands for £400k according to @acornpg's latest bulletin. (cc Walworth Society)

So lovely to hear St Peter's bells ringing Sunday joy as people enjoy church & Saint Louie Café! Shout out to our amazing Tower Captain Kev & all the ringers! Surrey Association Southwark Diocese Walworth Society Louie Louie Group Walworth SE17 The Church of England Bishop of Southwark

Email to ourselves and Neil Coyle from M&S setting out aim to close the Walworth Rd store from 8th June.

NB Petition total now almost 3,500 signatures (paper and online) against closure.

❗️We are currently recruiting for a Projects Officer for the Neighbourhood Food Model.

Join us and work towards building a better local food system in Walworth!

For more information about the role and to apply, please follow the link below.
pembrokehouse.org.uk/jobs/

Manor Place Baths - planning application to turn it into new base for skateboard brand. planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applica…

The bit I’ve been banging on about for about a decade hits hard. Shared owners might only have 25% of the equity in the property, but they pay 100% of the service charges, as well as rent on the other 75%. They are paying to maintain the HA’s equity value. theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

Elephant Park

Amada Teruel Sanchez, 36, and partner José Mellado, 47, were told last month that the service charge on their flat sold by the L&Q housing association was rising from £338 to £469 a month, an increase of 38%.

theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

St Paul's Church, Lorrimore Square from 1960, shortly after re-consecration. This Grade II listed church replaced the original destroyed during WWII. The architects designed it to be a 'magnetic force' where parishioners would be drawn to visit (see more below) 👇

Former Rarebit restaurant in Sayer Street, Elephant Park, has a new tenant - Noko Asian Food - according to licensing application on the door

News of our WS meeting at 7pm Weds 20 March (online only). Focus is proposed M&S closure and action to stop this.

Really pleased that we will be joined by Neil Coyle MP

Pls NB this is a public meeting - ALL V welcome. Meeting details & zoom link ⬇️

mailchi.mp/ad4a47eb246a/w…

Friends! A reminder, tomorrow is Walworth's Got Talent!! Here's some memories of WGT 2021!
3pm Open Mic, and 5.30pm Serious Talent Show!
Free to attend/perform, low-cost food & drink, so come, support & enjoy together! Gwenton Sloley Walworth SE17 Walworth Society
youtu.be/iZj08SefKAs?si…

1/2 V worrying news that M&S looking at proposals to close their Walworth Rd branch (est'd 1913) by June. Contact M&S chair at:

[email protected]

Ref no for comments is: 2117275

Neil Coyle Martin Seaton Cllr Kieron Williams Southwark News

This is horrific... All within our one London Borough of Southwark... Words fail me... Jesus wept... Poverty is a justice issue and it's tragic to read this in one of the wealthiest cities in one of the wealthiest nations on earth... Bishop of Southwark Neil Coyle Harriet Harman

From a new council report:

'In the Faraday Ward… 32% of children under 16 live in poverty compared to 5% in Dulwich Village, (1.5 miles away.) When comparing the same wards further, we see that male life
expectancy in Faraday is 79 years compared to 87 in Dulwich.'