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
Lee Green Lives is the campaign group that’s grown out of the Local Assembly decision to make the state of the Leegate Centre one of our priority issues.
The group will be holding its first meeting this Wednesday, 24th March, at 7.30pm at the New Testament Church of God on Lee High Road.
Everyone’s invited to come along and discuss how we can work together to breathe life into the Centre and develop a community vision for the longer term. We’ve drafted a constitution for the new group (which was discussed at the last assembly meeting on 19th January and will be put forward for adoption on the meeting on Wednesday) and we’re also looking for people to join the group’s committee.
We’ll also be updating everyone on what’s happened so far:
- The launch of our online survey at www.tinyurl.com/leegate – also available in hard copy to collect from retailers in the centre in coming weeks.
- The appointment of our new Town Centre Manager
- The owners’ offer of an empty unit rent-free to house our new youth group and other community activities
We’ll also have a speaker from the Meanwhile Project, a national project to encourage interim use of empty commercial premises.
Everyone in Lee Green Ward should have received a flyer about this in the past week or so. It promises to be a positive evening, I hope as many local people as possible will be able to make it.
