Forthcoming Ward Events

There is an informal meeting at Manor House Library coming up on Tuesday 6th June at 6:30pm with John Hughes, Service Manager for the Library and Information Service. Hopefully John will be revealing the details of the revised plans for the Manor House refurbishment which is due to be completed by June 2008.

FUSS Planting Day, Saturday 10 June, 10-2pm, Staplehurst Road

FUSS Banner Art Workshops, Sunday 11 June, St Swithun's Church Hall, St Swithun's Road 10-4pm. Contact Chloe Cookson on 020 7652 5242 for more info.

Good Shepherd Summer Fair, Saturday 24th June, 11-2pm
Good Shepherd Summer BBQ, Saturday 24th June, from 5pm
Adults £3.50 Children £1.50 bring your own drinks!


Northbrook GCSE Art Exhibition, Saturday 24th June, Stark Gallery 384-6 Lee High Road
10.30-6pm and Sunday 25th June 11.30-4.30pm

FUSS Banner Making & Sewing Workshop, Sunday 25 June, St Swithun's Church Hall, St Swithun's Road

Lewisham People’s Day Saturday 8th July, Mountsfield Park

Manor House Gardens User Group AGM, Tuesday 11th July, Café in the park 8-10 pm

Good Shepherd Holiday Club, 24-28th July, for children aged 4-10
Applications forms from the Good Shepherd or St Peters
Closing date: 30th June

Any questions for June's Transport Liaison?

I’d like to hear from anyone who has questions relating to local buses, bus routes, bus stops, bus shelters, train services and stations, and the DLR that they’d like me to get answers to at the next Transport Liaison committee meeting in June. I need to have your questions by Thursday 25th May and I’ll get back to you with the answers I get after the meeting on the 13th June 2006.

4th Lewisham Walking Festival

The 4th Lewisham Walking Festival runs from 13th to 28th May 2006 and includes over 90 events and activities this year!

Free copies of the 2006 Walking Festival Programme are now available from all Libraries in Lewisham, the Lewisham Shopping Centre Information Kiosk and all GP Practices in the borough, or you can download a PDF copy from the Lewisham Walking Forum webpage.

Lee Manor Society AGM & PlantMart 2006

The next monthly meeting of Lee Manor Society is on Wednesday 10 May at 11 Wantage Road starting at 8.00 pm

Visit the Society's website to read notes from our last meeting held on 12 April.

The Society's Annual General Meeting will be held at Northbrook School on Tuesday 16
May starting at 8.00 pm. The guest speaker will be Matthew Blumler of the Quaggy Waterways Action Group. Further details will be published on the website.

The Society’s ever-popular annual Plant Mart is on Saturday 20 May from 2 -
4 pm, this year at an extended location at 2 - 6 Micheldever Road. Proceeds
fund initiatives to improve the local environment - most recently the Picnic Bench in Manor House Gardens.

If you have surplus garden plants or bushes to offer, please bring them along on the morning of the sale - or contact the Society to arrange collection. Donations to the Bottle Tombola, Bric-à-Brac and the Cakes, Jams. Preserves and Pickles Stalls, and Raffle Prizes – and Help! – will be most welcome. There will be other Stalls and Amusements and (my personal favourite) Cream Teas! :-)

This year, Lee Manor Society welcome Lewisham Rotary, who are running a Stall in support of the Lavender Trust.

Further details from: Sylvia Ling on 8318 5161, Faye Carney on 8297 0449 Ralph White on 8852 2758, or email the Society

Lib Dem Team win in Lee Green!

It was a lot of hard work, and I'm totally exhausted, but I'm very pleased to announce that the Lib Dem Team won the election for Lee Green on Thursday! Even though there was a new electronic counting system it still took almost as long as the old manual system, so we didn't get home until after 4:30 am. Thursday was a very long day. There was a 35.8% turnout and I now have Sven and Brian on the team, which hopefully means I'll be able to ease off on the over work throttle! :-) The Lib Dems won all three seats in Blackheath too, and my colleague Andrew Milton is joined by Dave Edgerton in Lewisham Central.

You can find the Lee Green result here.

... and the full results here.

The Lib Dem group has gone from 7 to 17, the Conservatives from 2 to 3, the Telegraph Hill Socialists hold steady at 2, and the Greens have gone from 1 to 6. Hopefully we can all really crack on now and get things done.

And on behalf of the Lee Green Team can I thank everyone in Lee Green for being so encouraging and supportive, and for turning out to vote for us on Thursday.

Cllr Paul Bentley

82 Manor Park

There's a lot of concern about the rubbish that's piled up in front of 82 Manor Park and the way the building has been left to deteriorate.



These kinds of issues are dealt with under Section 215 of the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 and the Council have been asked to issue a new S215 to the owners of the property for clearance of the rubbish and to ensure compliance.