From 2006 to 2010, I was a councillor for Lee Green ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. During that time, I blogged regularly and in 2009 I won the Tim Garden Award for the Best Blog by a Liberal Democrat Holding Public Office. My blog posts from my term of office are archived here in case they prove of use to former constituents, or to those who share my annoyance with faulty street furniture
The sorry saga of the Crown Estate’s plans to sell off their homes in Lee Green and elsewhere in London rumbles on.
Using Freedom of Information requests, residents have discovered that plans to sell off their homes were being discussed a year before the Crown Estate launched their ‘consultation’. The South London Press covered this on Friday.
On Saturday, I attended the residents’ protest outside the Crown Estate’s ‘drop in’ consultation at the Colfeian Sports Club. It was good to see a huge turnout from residents, and also cross-party political support for their campaign against the sell off of their homes. As I said on Saturday, this campaign isn’t party political, it’s about what’s right and wrong.
I’d encourage residents of the affected properties, and indeed those who live around them and are concerned by the proposals, to visit the www.ourhomesarenotforsale.co.uk website and use the suggestions there to make sure the Crown knows the strength of feeling locally.
