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Population pyramid of the Borough of Lewisham. According to the 2011 census, [6] Lewisham has a population of 275,885, is 53% white and 47% BME, and 43% of households are owner-occupiers. A 2017 report by Trust for London and the New Policy Institute found that Lewisham has a poverty rate of 26%, close to the London-wide figure of 27%. [7]
The larger London Borough of Lewisham and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. [7] For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's outgoing authorities, being the councils of the two metropolitan boroughs of Lewisham and Deptford. [8]
Lewisham has a bowling alley [24] and the Glassmill Swimming pool and Gym. Lewisham has a number of parks, such as Hilly Fields and Lewisham Park. For 14 years between 2001 and 2015, Lewisham was the only London Borough not to have a cinema. Lewisham once had many cinemas, such as the Lewisham Odeon. In 1930 there were 30 venues showing films. [25]
A map showing the wards of Lewisham from 2002 until 2022. Lewisham London Borough Council is the local authority for the London Borough of Lewisham, in London, United Kingdom. Elections are held every four years using a plurality bloc vote electoral system for the councillors and the supplementary vote electoral system for the elected mayor.
Lewisham, like other London borough councils, elects all of its councillors at once every four years. The previous election took place in 2018. The 2022 election took place by multi-member first-past-the-post voting, with each ward being represented by two or three councillors. Electors had as many votes as there are councillors to be elected ...
Lewisham Town Hall is a municipal building in Catford Road, Lewisham, London. The oldest part of the facility, the curved former municipal offices and adjoining concert hall of 1932, is a Grade II listed building. [1] The complex also includes newer wings from the 1950s to 1970s; those serve as the headquarters of Lewisham London Borough Council.
Lewisham West and Penge, Lewisham Deptford & Camberwell and Peckham Lewisham West and East Dulwich is a constituency [ n 1 ] of the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Following its creation by the 2023 periodic review of Westminster constituencies , it was first contested in the 2024 general election . [ 2 ]
The borough was formed by the London Government Act 1899 from the civil parishes of Lee from the Lee District and Lewisham from the Lewisham District.The borough also took in a small area formerly administered by Camberwell Vestry on the western slopes of Forest Hill.