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The new homes in Leigham Court Road, close to Streatham Hill station, will be 50 per cent affordable by unit and include 15 social rent homes for Lambeth residents on the housing register.

The magnificent Streatham Hill Theatre – which faces a plan to turn it into a church – will host the Brixton Chamber Orchestra (BCO) on its annual Christmas tour of Lambeth this year.

Most homeless households in Lambeth should now expect to be placed outside the borough – and in many cases outside the southeast – under a major overhaul of the council’s Placement Policy.

Brixton Chamber Orchestra's annual Christmas Estates Tour is back for 2025. From 12 to 21 December 2025, the orchestra will be taking seasonal setlist around Lambeth. There will be something for everyone - from classical and grime to disco, pop, jazz, and, of course, your festive favourites.

The MOBO Group and Greene King have announced the opening of a new pub partnership together – the ‘House of MOBO’, a self-styled ‘vibrant community hub’ in Gipsy Hill that looks to celebrates Black culture and “reimagine what a modern pub can be.”

Romario Gordon was today sentenced at the Old Bailey to 13 years in prison for his part in the killing of 16-year-old Camron Smith in front of his mother, in July 2021.

It’s not unusual to find a tourist tax in some of Europe's buzzy cities - Barcelona, Amsterdam, Lisbon - even in the UK you’ll find them in the likes of Edinburgh, Manchester, and Liverpool. Now, it might be heading to London.