Planning
Paid Focus Group Opportunity for Hither Green Homeowners
Do you own a house or a flat in Hither Green or Lee or the surrounding areas? The Hither Green Community Association is helping the London Sustainability Exchange to find local residents willing to share their views. Would you be interested in sharing your thoughts about improving your home? Particularly with regards to making your home more …
Leegate Decision
At Wednesday’s Lewisham Council strategic committee planning meeting, councillors voted unanimously to defer the decision on proposed Leegate plans pending further discussions with St Modwen regardiing aspects of the scheme (listed on pages 128-129 here). Wishing you a Merry Christmas Sarah, Julie and Marietta
Leegate’s Future Decided at Public Meeting 16th December 7.15pm
Lewisham’s Strategic Committee will be deciding whether to accept St Modwen’s Leegate application at a Public Meeting on the 16th December at 7.30pm in Civic Suite, Lewisham Town Hall, Catford Road, SE6. The meeting’s open to everyone interested in what happens to Leegate. It’s been requested that people try to arrive by 7.15pm. 17 people turned …
Lee Forum consultation: 8 Oct – 20 Nov
Greenwich and Lewisham councils are each running a consultation on Lee Forum 8 October-20 November. Greenwich consultation Lewisham consultation If the forum is agreed it will increase local people’s say in what is built, protected and spent locally. Already hundreds of forums exist throughout the country. Please write in support to planning.policy@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or planning.policy@lewisham.gov.uk if you think the forum …
Changing Hither Green – Help wanted!
Hither Green is expanding and so is the Hither Green Community Association. We started as a small amenity group to ensure local people had volunteering opportunities and now we organise a week long Festival, manage a large budget and advocate on community issues with Lewisham Council. We are doing more, and need more people to …
Lee Neighbourhood Meeting-1 June
Message from A Better Lee Green: We invite you to hear Tony Burton CBE explain how a neighbourhood forum and plan can strengthen the community’s voice in local planning matters.expert in neighbourhood planning and community engagement. Monday 1st June Time 7.30 – 9.00pm 21 Meadowcourt Road, Lee SE3 9DU (King’s Church). View on Google Map …
Consultation Open: Hither Green Lane streetscape
Good news. Hither Green residents working to make Hither Green Green better for shopping, pedestrians and parents of small children have arranged for Lewisham Council to open an official consultation over the use of available funds. There is of course hot competition for the money. The Hither Green Residents Group carried out their own local consultation last year. Unsurprisingly, the Western side of Hither Green wanted less traffic, fewer bottle shops and an improved retail offer. Lewisham’s consultation on Hither Green Green opens for comment this Friday 29 May. The proposal document can be found by clicking the link. Local councillors Stella Jeffrey, Damien Egan …
Mayor’s High Street Fund
I want to pledge to projects that make London’s high streets even better places to visit, live in and do business. This hive brings together great projects from across our city which are seeking funding. I will pledge up to £20,000 directly to the best projects, like other crowdfunders, so add your project idea today! …
Lee Green News- Leegate Update
A massive thank you to everyone who submitted responses to Lewisham’s Leegate consultation by the15th April deadline. We will let you know when we have uploaded them on our website (forwarded by the council after removing personal details) and hope you enjoy reading them as much as we do. It’s great to see so much …
Funding: Transform your area with ‘Our Place’
Applications for the Locality grants programme are now open What is Our Place? Our Place gives your community control over local services – it helps bring communities together in partnership with local organisations and service providers to look at the issues that most matter to them. You can influence how local budgets are spent by redesigning, …