The first FUSS meeting of the New Year takes place tomorrow (Tuesday 27th) in the Parish Room of the Good Shepherd Church in Handen Road between 7 and 9:30pm.
Among the items on the agenda for Tuesday's meeting is a review of the 2006 Christmas Fair, a report on the Awards for All funding that FUSS have just been awarded and ideas for how to spend it, and the quest for a new logo!
If you'd like to get involved in FUSS why not come along?
Other FUSS meeting dates for your calendar are the 27th March, 24th April, 29th May and 26th June.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Saturday, January 27, 2007
The Eagles (formerly known as the Arbria), 9 Leegate Shopping Centre License Application
The Eagles, 9 Leegate Shopping Centre (formerly known as The Arbria) has applied for a new/variation premises licence under the Licensing Act 2003 for regulated entertainment live music Monday to Sunday 20:00-23:00, and recorded music and sale of alcohol Monday to Sunday 10:00-23:00.
The four criteria under which you can support or object to this application are:
Prevention of Crime and Disorder
Protection of Children from Harm
Public Safety
Prevention of Public Nuisance
You can email the Licensing Team or write to:
The Licensing Team, 2nd Floor Laurence House
1 Catford Road, London SE6 4RU
Please could you ensure that any representations either for or against this application reach the Licensing Team by 15th February 2007.
The four criteria under which you can support or object to this application are:
Prevention of Crime and Disorder
Protection of Children from Harm
Public Safety
Prevention of Public Nuisance
You can email the Licensing Team or write to:
The Licensing Team, 2nd Floor Laurence House
1 Catford Road, London SE6 4RU
Please could you ensure that any representations either for or against this application reach the Licensing Team by 15th February 2007.
Important! Hither Green East CPZ Consultation
If you live in one of these roads: Fernbrook, Leahurst, Longhurst, Manor Park, Pascoe, Staplehurst, Weardale, or the short section of Ennersdale from the railway bridge to the junction with Leahurst you'll be consulted sometime in February by Lewisham on whether you'd like a CPZ (Controlled Parking Zone) in your road/area.
As I live in Manor Park I'm fully aware of the commuter parking problem we have in our area but once again Lewisham Council only plan to offer us their one-size-fits-all solution of an all day 9am until 7pm Monday to Friday CPZ. My councillor colleagues and I believe that residents should also be offered the option of a two hour restriction in the middle of the day which we think would be enough to deter commuter parking, but in our opinion cause far less inconvenience for local residents, their visitors, and our shops. I'm sure we're all aware of the effect an all day CPZ had on Springbank Road - a once thriving shopping parade Springbank quickly became a ghost town. We wouldn't like to see the same thing happen to our shops in Staplehurst so we're getting up a petition calling on the Council to offer us the option of a two hour parking restriction and we'll be calling on as many residents in the CPZ consultation area as we can to collect signatures, but you can also sign our online petition! And if you're a resident in one of these roads and you'd like to give us a hand collecting signatures from your neighbours please either email me or give me a call on 020 8297 4849 and I'll drop a petition form into you. We're also hoping to persuade some of the shops in Staplehurst to make the petition available too.
We have very little time in which to get this petition signed and back to the Council so we all need to act NOW And when the consultation form arrives please fill it in and send it back regardless of whether you support or don't support a CPZ. Ignoring it isn't a 'yes' a 'no' or a protest vote, it's a wasted vote
No one can actually predict what the outcome will be unless we say no and carry on as we are. Whether we opt for a two hour or all day restriction period what the knock-on effect will be for surrounding roads outside our area we'll only know once the CPZ is in operation. One of the biggest fears we have is that if an all day CPZ is introduced more residents might be tempted to pave over their front gardens to create off-road parking space and this could have disastrous consequences for rain water run off making floods and water shortages more likely as rain water will not be able to soak into the ground. There's a lot at stake here, and the decisions we make could affect a great deal more than where we park our cars.
As I live in Manor Park I'm fully aware of the commuter parking problem we have in our area but once again Lewisham Council only plan to offer us their one-size-fits-all solution of an all day 9am until 7pm Monday to Friday CPZ. My councillor colleagues and I believe that residents should also be offered the option of a two hour restriction in the middle of the day which we think would be enough to deter commuter parking, but in our opinion cause far less inconvenience for local residents, their visitors, and our shops. I'm sure we're all aware of the effect an all day CPZ had on Springbank Road - a once thriving shopping parade Springbank quickly became a ghost town. We wouldn't like to see the same thing happen to our shops in Staplehurst so we're getting up a petition calling on the Council to offer us the option of a two hour parking restriction and we'll be calling on as many residents in the CPZ consultation area as we can to collect signatures, but you can also sign our online petition! And if you're a resident in one of these roads and you'd like to give us a hand collecting signatures from your neighbours please either email me or give me a call on 020 8297 4849 and I'll drop a petition form into you. We're also hoping to persuade some of the shops in Staplehurst to make the petition available too.
We have very little time in which to get this petition signed and back to the Council so we all need to act NOW And when the consultation form arrives please fill it in and send it back regardless of whether you support or don't support a CPZ. Ignoring it isn't a 'yes' a 'no' or a protest vote, it's a wasted vote
No one can actually predict what the outcome will be unless we say no and carry on as we are. Whether we opt for a two hour or all day restriction period what the knock-on effect will be for surrounding roads outside our area we'll only know once the CPZ is in operation. One of the biggest fears we have is that if an all day CPZ is introduced more residents might be tempted to pave over their front gardens to create off-road parking space and this could have disastrous consequences for rain water run off making floods and water shortages more likely as rain water will not be able to soak into the ground. There's a lot at stake here, and the decisions we make could affect a great deal more than where we park our cars.
Blackheath, Lee Green & Lewisham Central Area Forum
Another date for your diaries as the Blackheath, Lee Green & Lewisham Area Forum will be taking place on March the 20th, from 7:30pm until 9:30pm, at the Lewisham Methodist Church in Albion Way.
The Agenda for the evening is as follows:
7:30 Introduction
7:35 Presentation on the future of parking and traffic in Lewisham by Darien Goodwin (Head of Transport, Lewisham Council).
7:40 Parking discussion
8:00 Recycling presentation by Green Scene
8:05 Recycling discussion
8:15 Open forum
9:00 Tea break (10 minutes)
9:10 Resume the discussion until
9:30 CLOSE
In addition to the above presentations, we hope to have supporting exhibitions from:
Green Scene on recycling and composting, including a stock of 20 of their free compost bins.
Information on parking.
Information on car pools from Streetcar.
Information from the Safer Neighbourhood Teams, including Neighbourhood Watch
Information on Lewisham Gateway
Information on cycling from Lewisham’s Cycling Officer & hopefully Lewisham Cyclists.
Parking and recycling are two very hot topics in Lee Green so the debate should be lively! This is your chance to question the people that run or operate these services. What are Lewisham's plans for parking, and why are Lewisham's CPZs so inflexible? Are our wheelie bins going to be chipped and weighed? Will refuse only be collected every two weeks in the future? How will you cope with that mountain of waste? This is your chance to find out......
The Agenda for the evening is as follows:
7:30 Introduction
7:35 Presentation on the future of parking and traffic in Lewisham by Darien Goodwin (Head of Transport, Lewisham Council).
7:40 Parking discussion
8:00 Recycling presentation by Green Scene
8:05 Recycling discussion
8:15 Open forum
9:00 Tea break (10 minutes)
9:10 Resume the discussion until
9:30 CLOSE
In addition to the above presentations, we hope to have supporting exhibitions from:
Green Scene on recycling and composting, including a stock of 20 of their free compost bins.
Information on parking.
Information on car pools from Streetcar.
Information from the Safer Neighbourhood Teams, including Neighbourhood Watch
Information on Lewisham Gateway
Information on cycling from Lewisham’s Cycling Officer & hopefully Lewisham Cyclists.
Parking and recycling are two very hot topics in Lee Green so the debate should be lively! This is your chance to question the people that run or operate these services. What are Lewisham's plans for parking, and why are Lewisham's CPZs so inflexible? Are our wheelie bins going to be chipped and weighed? Will refuse only be collected every two weeks in the future? How will you cope with that mountain of waste? This is your chance to find out......
Lee Manor PFA Table Sale Today!
Lee Manor PFA are holding a Table Sale today (Saturday 27th) between 1-3pm. Entry is via the Longhurst Road entrance and admission is free.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Two new posts on Skulduggery for Beginners!
Just to let you all know there are two new posts on Skulduggery for Beginners.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
How we're proposing to spend the Locality Fund
This information is so new that I've only just emailed everyone concerned with details of what we are hoping to be able to fund from our Locality Fund this year. We had about six weeks to come up with ideas for how we were going to spend the £10,000, and consult locally, and two of those weeks included Christmas and the New Year! We've done the best we could in the circumstances, and this years proposed spending builds on what we started last year and benefits virtually everyone in our community. We may be councillors but we are also residents, and your quality of life is also ours. We care about our shared environment and I think this is reflected in how we've allocated the Locality Fund over the last two years. We've wanted the maximum number of people to benefit, and we've wanted to ensure that our money is as far as possible spent locally. I think we've achieved this and I hope what we are proposing this year meets with your approval.
The object of the fund is to engage local residents to deliver improvements in their ward, and in the process to commission actions or activities that will directly benefit the local neighbourhood and make a visible difference. So to recap, what did we spend the £5,000 Locality Fund on last year in 2006?
Money was spent on supplying and maintaining the Eltham Road planters, and also on installing girder gates to stop the wholesale fly-tipping and dumping of stolen cars in the Burnt Ash area. The rest of the money was match funded with Lewisham Central ward to get work started on the derelict nature reserve space between platforms 4 and 5 of Hither Green station, and establish a management committee to seek funding for the refurbishment of the Hither Green side of Hither Green station.
So what are we hoping to spend the money on this year in 2007?
1. We are offering matched funding to the Friends of Brindishe school towards the purchase of an outdoor bench.
2. We’re hoping to purchase and install 2 stainless steel waste bins to match the new TfL seating in Eltham Road.
3. We’re commissioning Envirowork, a social enterprise run by Lewisham residents providing employment and ground-based training to unemployed local people to design, produce, and maintain 4 planters for Eltham Road. The advantage is that unlike last year the ward will actually own these planters so future expenditure will be confined to replenishing the planting and maintenance. We’re also asking Envirowork to put together a planting scheme for the raised brick flower bed outside Lee station.
4. We’re commissioning Tall Lighthouse, a local publisher of poetry and organiser of poetry workshops to put on a community poetry event by local poets at the Stark Gallery enterprise and and also put on a poetry workshop at Northbrook school.
5. We’re funding the purchase of a built-in radio for the common room area of Abbey Manor College.
6. The bilk of our Locality Fund is being spent on match funding a sculpture for the soon to be completed newly refurbished Manor Park. We’ve ensured that this commission will be open to local artists and in order to secure our funding we’ve asked that there’s a commitment to ensuring that all green waste produced in the park will be recycled on-site.
7. And finally we’re match funding the refurbishment of the Burnt Ash Triangle area alongside the car wash in Burnt Ash Road which has been an eyesore for years.
That’s our proposal, we believe it meets the criteria of the fund and benefits the maximum number of residents, and we hope it meets with your approval.
The object of the fund is to engage local residents to deliver improvements in their ward, and in the process to commission actions or activities that will directly benefit the local neighbourhood and make a visible difference. So to recap, what did we spend the £5,000 Locality Fund on last year in 2006?
Money was spent on supplying and maintaining the Eltham Road planters, and also on installing girder gates to stop the wholesale fly-tipping and dumping of stolen cars in the Burnt Ash area. The rest of the money was match funded with Lewisham Central ward to get work started on the derelict nature reserve space between platforms 4 and 5 of Hither Green station, and establish a management committee to seek funding for the refurbishment of the Hither Green side of Hither Green station.
So what are we hoping to spend the money on this year in 2007?
1. We are offering matched funding to the Friends of Brindishe school towards the purchase of an outdoor bench.
2. We’re hoping to purchase and install 2 stainless steel waste bins to match the new TfL seating in Eltham Road.
3. We’re commissioning Envirowork, a social enterprise run by Lewisham residents providing employment and ground-based training to unemployed local people to design, produce, and maintain 4 planters for Eltham Road. The advantage is that unlike last year the ward will actually own these planters so future expenditure will be confined to replenishing the planting and maintenance. We’re also asking Envirowork to put together a planting scheme for the raised brick flower bed outside Lee station.
4. We’re commissioning Tall Lighthouse, a local publisher of poetry and organiser of poetry workshops to put on a community poetry event by local poets at the Stark Gallery enterprise and and also put on a poetry workshop at Northbrook school.
5. We’re funding the purchase of a built-in radio for the common room area of Abbey Manor College.
6. The bilk of our Locality Fund is being spent on match funding a sculpture for the soon to be completed newly refurbished Manor Park. We’ve ensured that this commission will be open to local artists and in order to secure our funding we’ve asked that there’s a commitment to ensuring that all green waste produced in the park will be recycled on-site.
7. And finally we’re match funding the refurbishment of the Burnt Ash Triangle area alongside the car wash in Burnt Ash Road which has been an eyesore for years.
That’s our proposal, we believe it meets the criteria of the fund and benefits the maximum number of residents, and we hope it meets with your approval.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
An amazing response - thanks!
There's been an absolutely amazing response to the Christmas tree recycling point I got included in Manor House Gardens this year. Just look at this mountain of trees!
Can I thank every single one of you that's supported this initiative - this really is terrific community support. It also gives me all the evidence needed to get little Manor Park included as an additional drop point for Christmas 2007, except that I hope by then to have pursueded the Council that both Manor House Gardens and little Manor Park should be recyling all their waste onsite.
It's a superb response - thank you all so much!
Can I thank every single one of you that's supported this initiative - this really is terrific community support. It also gives me all the evidence needed to get little Manor Park included as an additional drop point for Christmas 2007, except that I hope by then to have pursueded the Council that both Manor House Gardens and little Manor Park should be recyling all their waste onsite.
It's a superb response - thank you all so much!
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