Plans for an apart-hotel on the site of the Old Cinema Antique Warehouse in Tower Bridge Road and change of use of the empty office building next door were given the thumbs-up by Southwark councillors this week.
Kate Hoey MP has opened the improved Hatfields Green on the eastern edge of her Vauxhall constituency.
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