There’s a meeting of the Friends of the Triangle Nature Reserve on Wednesday 25th June at 7.30pm, in the Parish Room at the Good Shepherd on Handen Road.

Again, Paul has the details on Leepedia.

We’ve heard from SouthEastern that the footpath at Lee Station from the Sidcup-bound platform down to Burnt Ash Road is to be resurfaced tomorrow between 9am and 4pm.

This is great news, as it’s been in quite a state for some time, and was raised by several people in our Lee Station rail user’s survey earlier this year.

The first meeting of the newly formed Friends of Hither Green Triangle Nature Reserve group will be on Wednesday the 30th April at 7.30pm in the Parish Room of the Good Shepherd Church in Handen Road.

Again, Paul has more details here.

Hither Green commuters might have noticed the new community noticeboard at Hither Green Station.  

If you’ve got something happening in Lee Green ward and would like to display it on the noticeboard, contact one of your councillors.    We’re currently accepting A4 artwork, but depending on demand, we might have to reduce this to A5.

We paid for the noticeboard through this year’s locality fund, and I hope it’ll be a useful resource for the ward - there’s always plenty going on!

An early start on Wednesday - following our Hither Green Rail Survey last year, we decided the time had come to ask rail users at Lee what they think of their service.   I braved the mist with Paul and also Cllr Paul Webbewood, who represents Middle Park & Sutlcliffe, the Greenwich Council ward which adjoins Lee Green.   Lots of Paul’s constituents use Lee station, too.

Once again, commuters were keen to give us their views, and we’ve had over 100 surveys back already, which is great.   I’ll reply to everyone who provided a name and address and let you know how we’re taking up your concerns.   Overcrowding is clearly a big issue on the Sidcup line, and I’ve already got a question in to our next meeting with TFL and SouthEastern about this.

If you’d like to give us your views, it’s not too late - contact me if you’d like a copy of the survey.

I’ve recently been helping a consituent who was concerned about rubbish on the railway embankment opposite the houses on the stretch of Fernbrook Road between Staplehurst and Fernbrook Crescent.

Network Rail tell me they cleared the embankment yesterday, and have provided me with some useful numbers which you can use to report issues like this:

You can call Network Rail  24/7 on 08457 114 141.  The helpdesk should give you a reference number which can then be quoted if you need an update.   Apparently all complaints directed through this route are monitored on progress by Network Rail, so they reckon this is the quickest way to get through to the correct dept.   However, it doesn’t include stations which are the responsibility of the train operating company - in our case, SouthEastern.

There’s also the British Transport Police number, which you can use to report railway crime on 0800 405040 .

Of course, you can always contact us too!

Then Paul has news for you.   

Hope to see you at the meeting next Tuesday!  

Details: Tuesday February 12th, from 7pm in the Parish Room of the Good Shepherd Church in Handen Road