The future of The Bridge Leisure Centre in Lower Sydenham looks bleak. Lewisham Council’s Mayor and cabinet approved plans not to reopen the leisure centre. The report added that the site has been running at losses of over £400,000 for many years although an element of the financial losses relate to the deterioration in the …
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Urgent Action Needed To Tackle Homelessness Now
Cllr Alan Hall has joined housing campaigners, Shelter by writing to the Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on the tory Government to take “urgent action to protect people at risk of being on the streets as a result of the pandemic.” This follows the tragic news that a homeless person sleeping rough at Bell Green, …
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Convoys Wharf Plot 21 – The Plot Thickens
Lewisham Council’s long running planning saga around Convoys Wharf on the Deptford riverside has taken a mysterious twist. During a webinar event that was held on 1st December 2020, in place of a drop-in consultation event due to Coronavirus restrictions a number of options were put forward for plot 21 of the scheme. This phase …
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NHS faces ‘Darkest Hour’
Dozens of hospitals are now on the brink of disaster with COVID-19. The NHS faces its darkest hour and it seems the Government is paralysed by inaction. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Woolwich, southeast London, was forced to turn away some emergency patients on Sunday, 27th December 2020, amid concerns about the availability of oxygen …
Lewisham’s Amenity Societies’ Collective Concerns Over Planning Changes
On 16th September 2020, Lewisham Council’s Mayor & Cabinet agreed to a six month extension of temporary changes to the planning procedures for public participation in town planning. In the report it says: “By June 2020 a backlog of around 40 planning applications requiring determination by committee had built up. The Government has brought in …
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Campaigners say: “Leave No Child Behind”
Cllr Alan Hall has joined education campaigners across the UK and the National Education Union calling on the Prime Minister to leave no child behind. In response to a report by the National Foundation for Education Research, Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said: “Since March schools have been in uncharted …
Serious Concerns about Plans to Reorganise the Public Health System
Cllr Alan Hall has joined public health professionals, campaigners and charities in signing a joint statement to the Government on Public Health Reorganisation. The statement is endorsed by a wide range of leading health organisations, including the Association of Directors of Public Health, the Faculty of Public Health, the Royal Society for Public Health, the …
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People’s Audit Of Lewisham Council’s Accounts Is Open Until 28 September 2020
Each year the London Borough of Lewisham accounts are audited and any person interested has the opportunity to inspect and make copies of the accounts and all relevant documents, as stipulated in Section 25 of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014. The draft accounts for 2019-20 will be available between 10am and 4pm weekdays …
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Pandemic Pressures for London Councils
The Institute of Fiscal Studies has released a report on Covid-19 and Council funding called: ‘COVID-19 and English council funding: how are budgets being hit in 2020–21?’ The report looks at loss of income and the use of reserves in a range of local authorities. There are caveats but the IFS conclude that this is …
Lewisham Public Health Publish Covid-19 Plan
Lewisham Council has published a COVID-19 Outbreak Prevention and Control Plan setting out how the Council will work with partners, including Public Health England, to prevent, identify and manage any COVID-19 outbreaks in Lewisham and ensure that residents and communities are protected. Local authorities have been responsible for improving the health of their local population …
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