Thanks to all those who came along to last night’s local assembly at Lee Manor School.   Another good turn out – perhaps slightly down on last time, but still 80 or 90 people in the room, I’d guess.

For those of you who didn’t make it, the key announcements and decisions were:

• We agreed to allocated £20,000 towards improvements in Manor Park.  The assembly coordinating group presented the assembly with a ’shopping list’ of items which we’d like to follow up, and the assembly agreed to a £20,000 budget.  The coordinating group will now negotiate with council staff and report back to the next assembly on what we can get for our money
• We allocated a further £20,000 to establish a Lee Green Youth Club, initially to operate twice a week from hired premises (to be identified) but to become a sustainble youth club with a management committee composed of young people, the youth service and members of the community.  This is seriously good news, in my opinion!   If anyone’s interested in getting involved, do let me know.
• I explained that the parking ‘motion’ we passed at the February assembly will be going to the Mayor for consideration on 27th May
• There was a brief update on the Leegate priority, and another appeal for people to join the friends of Leegate.
• Antonio from the library service gave a presentation on the refurbishment of the Manor House, and avoided giving anything away by restricting himself to one photo of the exterior!

All in all a good night.  For those of you who were there:

• This is the report on dog control orders that explains what they mean and where they operate
• There was some opposition to the recent increase in parking permit charges.  As I explained, this decision was taken by the Mayor some time ago, but has only just kicked in locally as permits in Hither Green East become due for renewal.  You can read the report the Mayor approved here.

Next assembly is on July 4th.  If you’d like more details about any of the above, give me a shout.