Want to know more about goings on at the Corbett Society? You can read the minutes of our last board meeting, here

A big thank you to Telegraph columnist and local resident Jeff Howell, who has signed up to write for the CS website. He’ll be posting updates on the restoration of his Corbett Estate house.

Support the Shop Local, Shop Corbett campaign and fill out our survey for a chance to win a £25 shopping voucher at one of our favourite local butchers. More info here

t was back 2011 that Lewisham Council agreed to transfer the Abbotshall Road Playing Field, part of the the Corbett estate, to Community Teachsport at a peppercorn rent on a 25-year lease. (Teachsport is a body of professionally qualified sports instructors used by educational establishments all over London when they want to bring more and better sporting…

It’s been a long, hard haul, but the former playing fields at Abbotshall Road on the Corbett Estate are soon to be reborn as a healthy lifestyle centre including sporting facilities, a community café, a community garden, and drop-in clinics to help residents improve their health and wellbeing. We wanted to capture some very neglected buildings…

The owner of the Green Spot Cafe at 403 Hither Green Lane shares her #BestIdeasforCorbett Late last year, we surveyed the shops and businesses on the Corbett Estate London to ask them what they would do to drive Catford South and Hither Green regeneration. With the help of the research team at ImaginePlaces, we visited all…

Read all about the progress we’ve made with the Abbotshall Road Playing Field community garden, the brand new Healthy Lifestyles Centre, our ‘shop local’ initiative, the Commonplace interactive Love Corbett map (above), and much more…download the Corbett Society’s very first newsletter here:

Recently one of Catford’s more well known residents, the journalist Lucy Mangan wrote about her favourite library, none other than the Corbett Estate’s very own Torridon Library. It featured in the Boxing Day edition of The Guardian The article is a must-read, not only because of the fact it is our own beloved local library, but…

News hot off the presses is that a website has just been launched to take in the views of the residents and businesses who live in the Corbett Estate. It’s here: https://lovecorbett.commonplace.is/ To get involved, you can add comments about where you love, what you like about it, maybe what you don’t like and you can…

Over 50 people attended the inaugural awards ceremony of ‘Corbett Portraits’ at Torridon Road Library, Catford,  on Thursday 6th November, a photographic competition organised by the Archibald Corbett Society. The photographs feature local residents, their families, shop keepers, street cleaners, the local butcher and other people who live and work on the Corbett Estate. MP Heidi…