A planning application has been submitted for 1-4 Tanner Street, to replace the small vent in the rear wall with a significantly bigger vent 500mm x 500mm. This could indicate that there is a plan to change the use of the ground floor, currently offices,...
Southwark Public Health team has been in touch about a new survey they have launched, as part of their review of local pharmacies. They want to understand your experience of local pharmacy services, to help identify current and future need for pharmacy services in Southwark....
Southwark Council's Scrutiny Committee Chair, Cllr Ian Wingfield, this week invited BermondseyStreet.London to address the committee on the latest proposals by the Council for how major developers should engage with the community. Two local organisations BermondseyStreet.London and We❤️Snowsfields have commented on the changes that the...
Message from Southwark Council to publicise apprenticeship opportunities for employers and apprentices...
The metropolitan Police tell us there has been a spate of retail burglaries in Bermondsey Street recently, mostly as a result of a burglar bearkign glass in wondows or doors. Here is the Police advice to retailers. This is a shortened version. If you would...
This week there has been an email from Julia and team at Milo and the Bull on Bermondsey Street. The new reformer pilates studio is up and running, with an introductory offer of Two Classes for £25. More here. The reformer studio is at 163...
BermondseyStreet.London this week submitted its objection to the proposed upwards extension of 2 Newham's Row, just off Bermondsey Street. This building is just on the edge of the Bermondsey Street conservation area and visible from Bermondsey Street at the entrance to Newham's Row and from...
Southwark Council published its strategy which will guide its decision-making and work through till 2030, which you can see here Southwark 2030 .Cabinet has now also agreed its delivery plan 2025-26 Creating Good Lives Together. The plan includes investing £250 million to make council homes...
Morocco Bound has a great music line-up this month, with gigs from New Teeth, The Sharp Edge Trio, Dom Howard, Okay Okay and more; first comedy of 2025 with headliner ROSIE JONES; bookshop sessions; jazz and folk music by candlelight on Thursday evenings and a...
The Drawing Room's next exhibition Hardeep Pandhal: Inner World, opens on Thursday 13 February. It's the artist’s first solo exhibition in a London public gallery. Pandhal uses wall drawings, small and large-scale drawings on paper and animations to create mythical narratives that explore the complexities...
Excerpts from this week's Southwark Council email update, more on the challenges of waste: >> Want to see what happens to your recycling? The world of rubbish and recycling is fascinating and now you can find out more by visiting Southwark Integrated Waste Management Facility off the...
Even with some winter sunshine, the rose garden in Leathermarket Gardens (pictured) is looking rather sad. But hurrah, the fencing round it has at last been removed, so we can look forward to seeing and smelling those wonderful roses later in the year when they...
Forma opens its first exhibition at Bermondsey Square on Saturday 8 February 2025 in the space previously managed by Vitrine. Forma focuses on collaborative, interdisciplinary projects with artists that challenge existing practices, span multiple artistic disciplines, and demand new levels of ambition. The new exhibition...
Theaster Gates new exhibition at White Cube gallery is title 1965: Malcolm in Winter: A Translation Exercise and opens on 7 February. The exhibition fills the gallery with a series of new works honouring the arefully kept archive of the late journalist, Ei Nagata, and...
Southwark Pride Fund returns with £30,000 available for LGBTQI+ events. Southwark's LGBTQI+ community and organisations can now apply for funding to support their Pride events. The fund aims to celebrate and uplift LGBTQI+ communities by supporting events that highlight lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender & queer...
This exhibition of works by Mychael Barratt, Homage Part II, continues the artist's playful and witty approach to paying homage to his art heroes (and their pets). He recreates iconic pictures, in the style of the artist, and incorporates their (usually imagined) cats or dogs...
Local residents living near 2 Newhams Row have been notified by the council of an application to add four additional storeys to the current building. Neighbours are deeply unhappy with this greedy proposal for a whole range of reasons, see below, and encourage everyone who...
We have been contacted by a national charity Safe Families which seeks to connect isolated families into their local community working mostly through and with churches. Southwark Council social care teams and foodbanks refer struggling families to the charity. Volunteer befrienders and supporters get involved...
Mace, the contractor at the Edge London Bridge site on St Thomas Street, informs us that tower crane TC2 will be climbed at the site over the coming weekend Saturday 1 February 8-5pm and Sunday 2 February 9-5pm. It is not expected to that there...
Southwark Council has launched a new Hospitality Skills Hub designed to help hospitality businesses with recruitment and retention of staff, while also getting residents into careers in the hospitality industry. Services will be delivered by the Council's partner Rinova Ltd. The Hospitality Skills Hub will...
The award-winning local independent business, the SE1 Medical Aesthetics London Clinic, is looking for two new team members to support its major planned expansion. The first role is for an Aesthetic Practitioner, to join the team on Saturdays and other ad hoc days. Candidate criteria include...
Bermondsey and Beyond Poetry Prize has been announced with a deadline for submissions of midnight on 9 February 2025. Anyone aged 16 or over, based anywhere in the world can submit a poem and the winner will receive £100. Prizes of £25 each will also...
Conway have been at work on Bermondsey Street, widening pavements opposite the park a few months ago and currently at the traffic filter. Yet more pavements are to be widened further along the street towards the junction with Snowsfields in autumn 2025. The plan includes...
A more comprehensive update has been sent by Councillors this last week to provide reassurance about the sinkhole that opened up in Fenning Street a few weeks ago. Cllr Emily Hickson relayed a statement from Council officers, dated 21 January 2025: "Weekly meetings with the Site...
Southwark Council is offering support and opportunities for cultural organisations in the borough. These include: Culture Together Grants Fund - applications deadline 27 January 2025 The Culture Together Grant Fund 2025/26 is still open. It will support the delivery of projects that help to build a sustainable...
The Council has restored the panels on the BermondseyStreet.London noticeboard at Tanner Street Park, happily (and thank you, Parks team) and so our information is once again on display to help people understand this wonderful neighbourhood and its history. The display points people to our...
Long-planned works to Leathermarket Gardens are expected to start within the next few weeks and complete by Easter. The work is being funded from CIL paid by developers in previous years. The Council took input from local stakeholders in deciding where to focus its investment...
Residents are concerned for safety around the Fenning Street area, after the appearance of a sinkhole, estimated 10m (4 storeys) deep, next to the EDGE London Bridge construction site. One resident has written to the Council expressing safety concerns including lack of access for emergency...
From Thursday 16 January, Nigel Swift's latest exhibition will be showing at Eames Fine Art. The collection of oil pastel drawings is entitled Earth's Loveliness. This is a reference to Michelangelo quote 'My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's...
Southwark Council is consulting on minor amendments to its guidance on how community and other stakeholders should be consulted on when it comes to proposed developments. There are three parts to the consultation: Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) - identifies opportunities for residents to comment...