Plans for a 200-room hotel on the New Kent Road have been approved by Southwark councillors. The scheme got the green light at a virtual meeting of Southwark's planning committee on Monday morning.

Cars and vans could be banned from Waterloo Bridge and London Bridge - and pavements on Borough High Street are to be widened - under measures to make walking and cycling easier whilst social ...

Plans for a new 31-storey office-led development on the Elizabeth House site in York Road - next to Waterloo Station - have won the backing of Lambeth councillors. Members of Lambeth Council's ...

Up to 1,000 new homes could be built on the western side of Newington Causeway under two separate plans revealed this week by housing association Peabody and the City of London Corporation. This week ...

The yellow amphibious vehicles which are a familiar sight on the South Bank and on the River Thames are to disappear due to works on the 'super sewer' project at Albert Embankment. London Duck Tours ...

Suggestions from the public for the name of a proposed Underground station in Old Kent Road have been published by Transport for London. The Bakerloo Line Consultation Report has public responses to ...

An Australian street artist has painted a portrait of William Shakespeare on a brick wall in Clink Street, just yards from the site of the Bankside playhouses where the Bard worked. Jimmy C, who is ...

One of the last surviving elements of the once-extensive Sainsbury's headquarters complex in Stamford Street is being demolished. Black Pearl – the Malaysian joint venture company that owns the site ...

The Southwark Judiciary has held it first Legal Service at Southwark Cathedral. Judges from the Strand Law Courts and Old Bailey attend Westminster Abbey at the start of the legal year in October.

A new peace sculpture in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park has been officially unveiled. When a giant plane tree next to the Imperial War Museum had to be felled when it succumbed to a disease, the ...

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi visited the South Bank on Saturday morning to unveil a bust of 12th century philosopher, statesman and poet Basaveshwara. The project to erect the statue has been ...

The headquarters building of magazine publisher Time Inc UK (formerly IPC Media) is to change hands in a £415 million deal announced this week. Time Inc revealed its intention to sell the building in ...