My colleague, Cllr Brian Robson, has started a new service called Lee Green E-Focus.
Lee Green E-Focus is a fortnightly email version of our regular FOCUS newsletter. It's full of useful local info and events, planning and licensing applications, opportunities to have your say, and other news and info residents might find useful.
You can subscribe to Lee Green E-Focus by clicking here and clicking the 'send' button in your email program - that's it, no need for text - you don't need to do anything else, and you should start receiving E-Focus shortly afterwards.
We will continue to publish our regular 'hard copy' FOCUS newsletter, and you'll still be able to come and see us at a surgery or contact us by post, 'phone or email. We'll still continue to keep leepedia updated, E-Focus is simply a handy way to keep bang up to date about everything that's going on, right across Lee Green ward.
We hope you'll subscribe, and that you'll find the service useful.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Locality Fund Consultation 2007
How would you spend £10,000 in the ward?
We are pleased to announce that once again we have Locality Funding of £10,000 to spend on improvements or activities in Lee Green ward and we would like to invite you to take part in the consultation process which runs until Sunday October the 28th. The criteria for applications or suggestions for how to spend this money is that they should directly benefit the local neighbourhood and that all funding must be allocated and spent by the 31st March 2008. It would help greatly if when making an application you could give details of cost and supplier.
To give you an idea of the kind of thing we are looking for, in the previous two years funding has been spent on:
starting the restoration of the Hither Green nature reserve at Hither Green station cleaning up a problem area like the Burnt Ash Triangle
match funding for the sculpture in Manor Park
installing litter bins and planters at Leegate
planting the flower bed at Lee station
installing security gates and CCTV notices at Burnt Ash
start-up funding for the Hither Green Community Association
outdoor classroom seating at Brindishe school
local poets event at Stark Gallery
poetry workshop at Northbrook school
common room radio at Abbey Manor college
Some ideas your councillors have had for this year's funding are:
poetry event at this year's Open Studios
notice boards for Manor House Gardens
community notice boards for Hither Green and Lee station
compost workshops
anti-graffiti paint treatments for Burnt Ash Hill and Manor Lane
cycle training and Dr Bike workshops
enamelled signage for our historic buildings and places, particularly at Leegate
Funding cannot be used to employ staff although Ôone offÕ costs for personnel who will be directly responsible for delivering the improvement, i.e. artists, are allowed, and money can be added to funding that has already been identified for a particular activity. No applications can be accepted after midnight on Sunday October the 28th when the consultation process finishes so the earlier you can get your application or suggestions in the better, and we can't guarantee that every application or suggestion we receive will be included. The decision of your ward councillors is final, and we'll contact everyone who has submitted a suggestion or application with a list of this year's successful applications, which will also be published on Leepedia and in E-Focus.
We very much look forward to hearing from you.
We are pleased to announce that once again we have Locality Funding of £10,000 to spend on improvements or activities in Lee Green ward and we would like to invite you to take part in the consultation process which runs until Sunday October the 28th. The criteria for applications or suggestions for how to spend this money is that they should directly benefit the local neighbourhood and that all funding must be allocated and spent by the 31st March 2008. It would help greatly if when making an application you could give details of cost and supplier.
To give you an idea of the kind of thing we are looking for, in the previous two years funding has been spent on:
starting the restoration of the Hither Green nature reserve at Hither Green station cleaning up a problem area like the Burnt Ash Triangle
match funding for the sculpture in Manor Park
installing litter bins and planters at Leegate
planting the flower bed at Lee station
installing security gates and CCTV notices at Burnt Ash
start-up funding for the Hither Green Community Association
outdoor classroom seating at Brindishe school
local poets event at Stark Gallery
poetry workshop at Northbrook school
common room radio at Abbey Manor college
Some ideas your councillors have had for this year's funding are:
poetry event at this year's Open Studios
notice boards for Manor House Gardens
community notice boards for Hither Green and Lee station
compost workshops
anti-graffiti paint treatments for Burnt Ash Hill and Manor Lane
cycle training and Dr Bike workshops
enamelled signage for our historic buildings and places, particularly at Leegate
Funding cannot be used to employ staff although Ôone offÕ costs for personnel who will be directly responsible for delivering the improvement, i.e. artists, are allowed, and money can be added to funding that has already been identified for a particular activity. No applications can be accepted after midnight on Sunday October the 28th when the consultation process finishes so the earlier you can get your application or suggestions in the better, and we can't guarantee that every application or suggestion we receive will be included. The decision of your ward councillors is final, and we'll contact everyone who has submitted a suggestion or application with a list of this year's successful applications, which will also be published on Leepedia and in E-Focus.
We very much look forward to hearing from you.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Whitefoot By-election Victory!
I'm extremely pleased to report that our Liberal Democrat candidate, Pete Pattisson, has been elected as a Councillor in the London Borough of Lewisham, following the by-election held in Whitefoot ward on Thursday, 13 September 2007.
How Whitefoot voted:
Pete Pattisson 986
Labour 901
Conservative 536
Independent 95
UKIP 89
Green 52
How Whitefoot voted:
Pete Pattisson 986
Labour 901
Conservative 536
Independent 95
UKIP 89
Green 52
Lewisham Country Fayre!
Lewisham's first Country Fayre will take place on Sunday 23 September from 12 noon until 6pm, to launch the new open space for Lewisham Town Centre, Cornmill Gardens. The gardens will be filled with international music, a vintage fair, Kidsrome Mobile Farm, Berkeley Owls, arts and crafts, a trash-art workshop and a local traders' market. There will also be horticultural competitions for children and adults and among the categories you can enter are:
• Best drawing on a Harvest theme
• Best photograph of rural Lewisham
• Best hand knotted item
• Best flower arrangement
• Funniest shaped vegetable
• Best cake
• Best jam
For more information or to enter an exhibit please call 020 8297 5635 or email the organisers.
• Best drawing on a Harvest theme
• Best photograph of rural Lewisham
• Best hand knotted item
• Best flower arrangement
• Funniest shaped vegetable
• Best cake
• Best jam
For more information or to enter an exhibit please call 020 8297 5635 or email the organisers.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Crime and anti-social behaviour on London's bus network
From the London Assembly website:
Crime and anti-social behaviour on London's bus network
The London Assembly's Transport Committee is investigating crime and anti-social behaviour on the capital’s bus network. The investigation will focus on:
The measures put in place by Transport for London (TfL) to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour on buses and the extent to which they help passengers feel safe.
Investigating what mix of measures – relating to staffing and technology – would improve the travelling environment.
Crime and disorder on the capital’s buses has recently become a high profile issue, but it is a complex subject. By focussing on perceptions of safety and understanding what makes people feel safe, using available data and through wider consultation, the Transport Committee hopes to make recommendations to TfL and the Metropolitan Police Service that will improve Londoners’ bus journeys.
Your views
The Committee would like to hear from Londoners so we can identify how to make things better. Please contact us with your views on the following:
What makes you feel safe, or would make you feel safe, when travelling on buses?
Do you think TfL have the right mix of measures (in terms of staffing and technology such as CCTV) on the bus network to reduce anti-social behaviour and create a pleasant travelling environment?
What more do you think could be done to improve safety?
Please send your views to:
Bonnie Jones
PP10, London Assembly
City Hall
The Queen's Walk
London SE1 2AA
or email
Crime and anti-social behaviour on London's bus network
The London Assembly's Transport Committee is investigating crime and anti-social behaviour on the capital’s bus network. The investigation will focus on:
The measures put in place by Transport for London (TfL) to deal with crime and anti-social behaviour on buses and the extent to which they help passengers feel safe.
Investigating what mix of measures – relating to staffing and technology – would improve the travelling environment.
Crime and disorder on the capital’s buses has recently become a high profile issue, but it is a complex subject. By focussing on perceptions of safety and understanding what makes people feel safe, using available data and through wider consultation, the Transport Committee hopes to make recommendations to TfL and the Metropolitan Police Service that will improve Londoners’ bus journeys.
Your views
The Committee would like to hear from Londoners so we can identify how to make things better. Please contact us with your views on the following:
What makes you feel safe, or would make you feel safe, when travelling on buses?
Do you think TfL have the right mix of measures (in terms of staffing and technology such as CCTV) on the bus network to reduce anti-social behaviour and create a pleasant travelling environment?
What more do you think could be done to improve safety?
Please send your views to:
Bonnie Jones
PP10, London Assembly
City Hall
The Queen's Walk
London SE1 2AA
or email
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