Already beset by corrupt players and match-fixing, could cricket be in for another buffeting? Surrey County Cricket Club is reported as asking its planning consultants Savills for advice on whether, as well as stopping play at The Kia Oval at Kennington, wind turbulence generated by massing skyscrapers at Vauxhall Cross could pose a greater health and safety risk to...
Vauxhall developer CLS Holdings has put in a planning permission application for the Spring Mews redevelopment on the northern fringe of the site of Vauxhall Gardens. While some might vote it an improvement on the ragbag of buildings presently on the site, from the...
Kylun: there’ll be a site visit by the public inquiry to the ‘handkerchief of green’ in the week beginning 27 February. The Kylun Inquiry opens on 6 March, is scheduled to close on 21 March and the Inspector is due to report to the...
Vauxhall-based property company CLS Holdings has applied for planning permission for its ambitious ‘Vauxhall Square’ redevelopment plan at Vauxhall Cross. CLS Chief Executive Officer Richard Tice stresses that the project does not depend upon the Northern Line extension from Kennington to Nine Elms being...
The 32-storey student skyscraper proposed for 30-60 South Lambeth Road, would ‘overshadow’ Vauxhall Park and so further disadvantage people in an area of social deprivation that is short of open space. This and more is what the Friends of Vauxhall Park say in their...
Lambeth Prospects: Images from the collection at Lambeth Archives from the 17th to the 21st centuries will open at Morley College on Thursday 9 February 2012. The images, in media including oil, watercolour, print and photography give a rarely-seen insight into Lambeth over the...
The traffic at Vauxhall Cross may get a lot heavier if Wandsworth Council has its way, according to Vauxhall Society affiliate the Fentiman Road and Richborne Terrace Residents Association. The cause? The skyscraper developments Wandsworth Council is giving the OK to along Nine Elms...
The first of The Vauxhall Society’s two Blitz walks – and the first of our Heritage Walks programme for 2012 – is on Sunday 12 February at 11am. It’s a fantastic opportunity to learn more about how the Second World War affected this area...
The Vauxhall Society has objected to the application for planning permission to build a 32-storey skyscraper of 572 student apartments overlooking Vauxhall Park. So too have the Friends of Vauxhall Park. Nice though it would be to have the swimming pool promised for 30-60...
