Millwall CPO scrapped as Lewisham mayor calls time on development plan

• Sir Steve Bullock says scheme around the Den ‘should not proceed’
• Lewisham mayor backs down after opposition to compulsory purchase orderThe plan to evict Millwall from their land around The Den by compulsory purchase order (CPO) has been abandoned after months of fierce public pressure. In a statement Lewisham council’s elected mayor, Sir Steve Bullock, said that the CPO on Millwall’s land “should not proceed”, pulling the plug on the plan that