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Issue 1276
Established: 1987 Published weekly on a Thursday
FUNFAIR ENDS IN DISASTER 40p
June 9 2016
www.southwarknews.co.uk
STOPPED IN THEIR TRACKS NEWS: Fifteen-year-old stabbed - see page 4
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EXCLUSIVE
ByAlex Yeates
alex@southwarknews.co.uk
Council places planning restrictions, to prevent railway arches being converted into homes
SOUTHWARK COUNCIL has placed planning restrictions on shops beneath miles of railway arches, to stop them being turned into housing after a warehouse in Walworth attempted to do so.
Under old rules, shops under railway arches could have been turned into homes through “permitted development right” without needing to apply for planning permission. But after a warehouse underneath some railway arches planned on doing so, the council used an Article 4 Direction to stop them in their tracks. The change will mean that shops, offices, storage and betting offices currently trading out of more than 800 arches around Southwark cannot be developed into homes without permission. Full story - page 4
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