Discover Lewisham this summer

To improve our high streets and town centres, councils and communities need a greater say over planning and licensing decisions. Lewisham Council welcomes the Prime Minister’s proposals on betting shops and vape stores, but the real test will be whether they deliver genuine power to local communities.

Lewisham Council’s adult social care services have been given a score of 59 by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) – just four points shy of the ‘Good’ category.

New rules on access to single-sex spaces will be “harmful to the rights of trans people and will make their exclusion from public life more likely, not less”, a group of London council leaders have warned.