Bellingham and Lewisham in the news
Sue Hordijenko, Lewisham Labour’s candidate, won the Bellingham By-Election with 57% of the vote on Thursday, 21st July. Sue has pledged to work hard for residents of Bellingham on Lewisham Council taking up issues like the Bakerloo Line extension to Lower Sydenham and improving Beckenham Place Park. Sue said: ‘I have never, ever, felt more proud …
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Lewisham Labour supports the WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign. A motion calling on the Government to rethink their current state pension arrangements was agreed by Lewisham Council in July. The text is here. Women born on or after 6th April 1951 have been unfairly affected by the changes to State Pension Age. Many have been pushed …
Leading Lewisham Councillor Alan Hall has attacked plans to cut Lewisham’s representation in Parliament following changes currently recommended by the Boundary Commission. Cllr Alan Hall has demanded a ‘rethink’ by the Commission because, despite an increase of Lewisham’s voters this year by nearly one fifth (18%), the Commission is set to cut Lewisham’s MPs from …
The lead scrutiny councillor on Lewisham Council, Alan Hall, is calling on ministers and NHS bosses to ensure that a review of orthopaedic services in south east London does not become a back-door programme to close Accident and Emergency departments. Cllr Alan Hall, Chair of the borough’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee, was commenting on the …
Bellingham’s Labour Councillors today reveal the fourteen community projects that have been awarded a share of the £15,000 Bellingham Assembly Fund. The Fund, an initiative of Lewisham Council, exists to support projects that engage the local community in Assembly priority areas. Bellingham’s priorities are to engage young people; focus on issues affecting older people; deliver community …
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Last night (Weds 2/11/16) Nicaragua’s Ambassador to London, Guiselle Morales-Echaverry and Christine Blower, former General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, spoke on solidarity with Nicaragua at the London headquarters of trade union Unite. Christine spoke of the local education improvements in the rural areas of Nicaragua and the high levels of participation. The trade …
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Lewisham’s leading scrutiny councillor, Alan Hall has welcomed the final publication of plans to remodel the NHS in south east London but is telling NHS bosses that they must pass a series of tests before councillors will support or agree to their implementation. “The report has confirmed our deep concerns about some serious flaws in the …
Lewisham Council has given formal planning permission to Phoenix Community Housing Co-op to restore the Grade II listed Fellowship Inn, Bellingham, where British boxing legend and local resident Henry Cooper once trained and where rock legends Eric Clapton and Fleetwood Mac once performed. Bellingham councillor and Phoenix Board Member Alan Hall (see photo) said: “I …
Lewisham Council has responded to the Govia Thameslink Railway – GTR – consultation which sets out proposed changes to the timetable following the completion of the Thameslink Programme. An urgent meeting of the Public Transport Liaison Committee was called on Tuesday 6th December with representatives from the Cinderella Line campaign group, Forest Hill Society and …
LEWISHAM COUNCIL must ‘now put its money where its mouth is’ and lead the vanguard of a grass roots revolution to stop company tax evasion and avoidance which harms the welfare of residents, according to its leading scrutiny councillor Alan Hall. “We have just unanimously agreed in a council motion to strengthen our policies and …
