Lewisham Council Homepage
Login / Register
Skip navigation
Search
search
Menu
Services
Mayor and Council
In my area
Search
Primary navigation
Home
Services
Cost of living crisis
Council tax
Pest control
Planning
Housing
Education
Employment support and careers advice
Rubbish and recycling
Benefits
Parking
Libraries
Environment
Health and social care
Children and families information service
Young people
Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
Applying for British citizenship
Business
Building control
Roads and transport
Service Status
Lewisham Digital Infrastructure
Sundry debts
Moving to Lewisham
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Overview
Cost of living crisis
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Food support services
Council tax
Click to expand or collapse navigation
What is council tax and who has to pay?
Pay your council tax
Council tax reductions and exemptions
Manage your council tax
Problems paying your council tax
How much is my council tax?
Disputes, refunds and appeals
Landlords and letting agents
Council tax when someone dies
Contact us
Pest control
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Planning
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Party Wall etc. Act 1996
Solar panels and planning permission
Find and comment on planning applications
Applying for planning permission
Planning policy
Unauthorised development
Conservation and design
Local land charges
Street naming and numbering
Frequently asked questions
Housing
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Housing Futures
Housing benefit
Reporting damp and mould in your home
Get housing support
Information for social housing tenants
Advice for private tenants
Information for landlords
Council tax reduction scheme
Advice for homeowners
Grants and loans to improve your home
Housing strategy and policies
Partners and duty to refer
No recourse to public funds
Empty and derelict properties
Education
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Education Strategy
Schools
Special educational needs and disabilities
Adult education
Early years education
Learning options for 14–19-year-olds
Financial support for pupils and students
Local higher education providers
Our plans to expand two specialist schools
Employment support and careers advice
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Employment, training, support and careers
The Lewisham Deal - Social Value Reports
Skills and training
The Lewisham Deal
Apprenticeships
Rubbish and recycling
Click to expand or collapse navigation
A to Z of recycling
Cleaner Lewisham
How to recycle your plastics
Waste, recycling and the climate emergency
What can and can't go in your rubbish bin
Reuse and Recycling Centre in Landmann Way
Your bins
Large items
What you can recycle
Garden waste collection service
Clinical, hazardous and business waste
Where your rubbish and recycling goes
Benefits
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Protecting your benefit payments from your bank
Single Support Grant
The Household Support Fund
Housing benefit
Benefit cap
Council tax reduction scheme
Personal independence payment
Parking
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Sustainable Streets programme
Visitor vouchers e-Permits app
Yellow box junctions
Additional Safety Cameras
Catford Broadway Exemption Permits
Emission Based Charges for Parking
Changing your protected vehicle
Easier travel for Blue Badge holders in Low Traffic Neighbourhood
How our new parking policy has affected parking permit prices
New parking permit system
Parking for health workers
Reporting idling vehicles
Rolt Street Deptford Park pedestrianised street
School Streets
Ultra Low Emission Zone
Weight Limit Restrictions
Parking permits for controlled parking zones
Car parks and street parking
Parking tickets
Blue Badge disabled parking
Crossovers (dropped kerbs and white lines)
Parking reports and policies
Motorcycle parking
Libraries
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Library branches
Library events and resources
Business support for entrepreneurs with BIPC Lewisham
Using the library
eLibrary
Lewisham Heritage
Home library service
The complete business reference adviser
Environment
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Climate Emergency
Resident guide to action on the climate crisis
Air quality
Allotments and community gardens
Animal welfare
Contaminated land
Prosecuting environmental offences
Keeping our streets clean
Issues with noise
Pollution information for developers and businesses
Improve your environment
Trees
Health and social care
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Adult social care
Information for carers
Children and families
Health and wellbeing
Our approach
Moving from children's to adult social care
Children and families information service
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Childcare
Family Hubs
Family Infomation Service contact
Lewisham Educational Psychology team
Special Educational Needs Frequently Asked Questions
Young people
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Holiday programme food and fun
Supporting our young people
Youth clubs
Adventure playgrounds
Health and wellbeing
Staying safe
LGBTQ+ young people
Baseline drop-in service
Support for young fathers
Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Lewisham Register Office
Giving notice to marry or form a civil partnership
Book your ceremony
Copy certificates
Guidance for the Clergy and authorised persons
Marriages and civil partnerships
Registering a birth
Deaths
Records
Getting to the Register Office
Performance
Search burial and cremation records online
Fees
Applying for British citizenship
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Apply for British citizenship
Book a citizenship ceremony
Brexit: rights of residents from the EU
Business
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Business support
The Lewisham Creative Enterprise Zone
Lewisham High Streets Survey
Commercial property
Business rates
Tenders and contracts
Licences and street trading
Food safety, hygiene and standards
Health and safety
The Mayor of Lewisham Business Awards
Local Labour and Business Scheme
London Living Wage
Offer an apprenticeship within your company
Building control
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Building projects – site inspections
Search building control applications
Submit a building notice
Apply for full plans approval
Apply for regularisation
Building control approval
Building control – frequently asked questions
Building control fees
About building control
Apply for a demolition notice
Report a dangerous structure
Building control – frequently asked questions (commercial properties)
Roads and transport
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Lewisham and Lee Green Low Traffic Neighbourhood
Roads and pavements
Public transport
Transport options for older people, people with a disability and people with SEN
Cycling
Road safety
Sustainable transport
Closing a road for a play street or street party event
Improving the school gate area at school drop off and pick up time (school streets)
Our traffic reduction programme (healthy neighbourhoods)
Transport strategy and programmes
Ultra-low emission zone
Service Status
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Lewisham Digital Infrastructure
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Digital Lewisham
Fibre Optic
Internet and Mobile Connectivity
Digital Strategy
Sundry debts
Click to expand or collapse navigation
If you don’t pay your sundry debt
Challenging sundry debt invoices
How to pay sundry debts
Moving to Lewisham
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Mayor and Council
Council meetings
Councillors and wards
The Mayor
Corporate strategy
About us
Jobs
Voting and elections
Local assemblies
MPs and AMs
Lewisham Strategic Partnership
Complaints and feedback
The young mayor
Overview and scrutiny
Influence decisions
Positive Ageing Council
Community support
Project funding
Press office
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Overview
Council meetings
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Licensing Supplementary Committee
Children and Young People Select Committee
Healthier Communities Select Committee
Housing Select Committee
Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee – Our Healthier South East London
Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee - SLaM Mental Health of Older Adults
Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee - SLaM Places of Safety
Overview and Scrutiny Business Panel
Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Overview and Scrutiny Education Business Panel
Public Accounts Select Committee
Safer Stronger Communities Select Committee
Sustainable Development Select Committee
Planning Committee A
Planning Committee B
Councillors and wards
Click to expand or collapse navigation
The role of councillors
Councillors' attendance at the meetings
Councillor allowances
How to become a councillor
The Speaker of Lewisham
Find your councillor
Privacy notice - Elected members
The Mayor
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Mayor of Lewisham Community Awards 2023
Meet the Mayor of Lewisham in your ward
Mayor's cabinet
Mayors annual report
Mayor's biography
Contact the Mayor
Corporate strategy
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Lewisham's budget challenge
Our priorities
Welcome from the Mayor
Our values
About us
Click to expand or collapse navigation
How the Council is run
Strategies and plans
Our finances
Performance
Access to information
Open data and transparency
Report fraud
International links
Freedom of the Borough
Equality and diversity
Advertising with us
Lewisham Life magazine
Jobs
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Apply for a job with us
Careers in adult social care
Careers in children's social care
Jobs in schools
Voting and elections
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Registering to Vote
How to Vote
Elections
The Electoral System
Election results
Where is my polling station?
Changes to our electoral system
Local assemblies
Click to expand or collapse navigation
MPs and AMs
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Lewisham Strategic Partnership
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Complaints and feedback
Click to expand or collapse navigation
How to send us a complaint or feedback
Corporate complaints procedure
Housing complaints procedure
Children and young people's services
Schools
Adult social care complaints
Feedback about planning
Our commitment to responding to complaints
Complaints and feedback: you said, we did
Complaints performance
Frequently asked questions
Whistleblowing
The young mayor
Click to expand or collapse navigation
The new young mayor
About the young mayor
Candidates for young mayor 2022–23
Apply to vote by post
The voting process for the young mayor
Past young mayors
Young advisers
Young citizens' panel: a voice for young people
Commemorative book
Overview and scrutiny
Click to expand or collapse navigation
About overview and scrutiny
Overview and scrutiny reports
Suggest an issue to be scrutinised
Open overview and scrutiny investigations
Influence decisions
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Consultations
Submit or view a petition
Get involved in health and social care
Ask a question at a council meeting
School governors
Young citizens' panel: a voice for young people
Positive Ageing Council
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Community support
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Lewisham Disabled People's Commission Report
The Lewisham Deal
Community-led projects
Supporting refugees
Our offer to the Armed Forces community
Support for reservists
Right to nominate assets of community value
Community premises
Project funding
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Apply for funding to make the borough greener
Apply for funding to make your organisation more accessible to children with SEND
Consultation on our Main Grants 2022–25 programme
Funding for community projects (Small and Faith Fund)
Funding for arts projects
Sports funding
How to get funding for your project
Press office
Click to expand or collapse navigation
In my area
Discover Lewisham
What's on
Neighbourhoods
Regeneration
Parks and open spaces
Sport and leisure
Markets
Arts and entertainment
Venues and arts spaces
Interactive map
Local history and heritage
Policing and public safety
Tackling poverty
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Overview
Discover Lewisham
Click to expand or collapse navigation
What's on
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Celebrate Pride 2023
Windrush Day
New Cross Fire 42nd anniversary
Black History Lewisham 365
Remembrance Sunday 2022
International Women's Day
LGBTQ+ History Month
People's Day
Blackheath Fireworks
Planning an event or festival
Blackheath Halls
Blackheath Conservatoire
The Broadway
Horniman Museum & Gardens
Montage Theatre Arts
The Albany
Neighbourhoods
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Bellingham
Blackheath
Brockley
Catford
Crofton Park
Deptford
Downham and Whitefoot
Evelyn
Forest Hill
Grove Park
Hither Green
Honor Oak Park
Ladywell
Lee
Lewisham
New Cross
Sydenham
Telegraph Hill
Regeneration
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Building affordable homes
Selling your home
Lewisham town centre
Deptford and New Cross
Catford
Parks and open spaces
Regeneration strategy
School building programme
Major transport and infrastructure projects
Travelling community
Parks and open spaces
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Biodiversity in Lewisham
Parks and open spaces strategy
Exercise and fitness in parks
Local parks
Nature reserves
Sport and leisure
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Leisure centres
Leisure discounts with the Be Active scheme
Get active
Sports facilities
Swimming
Markets
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Farmers' markets
Street markets
Market stories
Arts and entertainment
Click to expand or collapse navigation
London Borough of Culture
Your local arts
Resources and advice for arts organisations
Promoting your arts activities
Support for creatives
Cultural venues in the borough
Arts volunteering
Find an arts course or class in the borough
Venues and arts spaces
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Interactive map
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Local history and heritage
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Local History and Archives Centre
Policing and public safety
Click to expand or collapse navigation
Hate crime
Neighbourhood watch and help preventing scams
Reducing violence
Stay safe in the night time economy
Violence against women and girls (VAWG)
Youth offending
Antisocial behaviour
Emergencies
Restorative justice
Lewisham Prevent programme
Pledge to victims of crime
CCTV cameras in the borough
Useful websites about policing and public safety
Tackling poverty
Click to expand or collapse navigation
navigation-end
People's Day
People’s Day is taking a year off in 2023.
Join the People's Day mailing list
People's Day 2022
People's Day returned for Lewisham's year as London Borough of Culture.