Su, Jul 3, 2005New School Campaign Public Meeting
On Friday 8th July, at 7 pm, at St Lukes Church, 190 Evelyn Street, SE8 the New School Campaign hosts a public meeting to inform about suitable sites for a new secondary school in the north of the borough and discuss the best way to achieve it.
The Mayor of Lewisham, Steve Bullock, has decided long ago that the place for a school is the Ladywell Leisure Centre and is ignoring public opinion and forcing all the people he controls to look the other way as alternative options are brought to the attention of the public by active residents.
To
save the Ladywell Leisure Centre and to provide a school in the part of
the Borough where it is most needed, come and join us at this public
meeting.
Click here to download a pdf of the poster for this meeting for you to print.
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Orwell in Lewisham
At last Wednesday's Council meeting one of the aspects that was discussed by the oppositions speeches was a criticism about the way business is conducted in Lewisham Council.
There's evidently a growing concern about important decisions taken out of sight from the public and decided even before being discussed at Council.
Councillor Chris Flood touched on this in a very effective way and told the Council how a few days earlier, as he was reading to his children from George Orwell's Animal Farm he had stumbled into a passage that resonated in him so much that he decided to report it to the Council.
Here is the passage from Animal Farm quoted by Cllr Flood:
...read more..."Napoleon announced that from now on, the Sunday meeting would come to an end. They were unnecessary and wasted time. In future all questions relating to the working of the farm would be settled by a special committee of pigs, presided over by himself. They would meet in private and afterwards communicate their decisions to the others. – but there would be no debates."