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Quick report on the campaign public meeting

The Public Meeting held yesterday was probably the best so far.

More then 60 people took part to it from start to end.

A lot were new faces willing to take charge of their share of fight.

As the meeting was held in the bar area and the door to the terrace was open, before the meeting start we all took a stroll outside.
From there we could all admire the large and unused part of the Leisure Centre.
This includes also a spacious and well kept green space that is in all probability maintained so using public money.

After this sad consideration about the Council preventing the residents of Lewisham from enjoying a large part of their Leisure Centre the meeting proceeded with a quick report from Max about the present situation and the vision for the next steps to take.

Three different strains of campaign activities where identified:

Council activity (questions at council meetings, requests under the freedom of information act, lobbying)

Information (newsletters to inform the residents of the findings of the above mentioned council activity, press)

Community involvement (petitioning, Christmas activities)

Then Mary reported on the Council's disaster with the BSF program and explained in plain english the problems with Council's plans about school expansions.
This included why the Ladywell Leisure Centre is the wrong site for a school and why the Council's recent failure in deliverying a new secondary school was completely predictable.

This was followed by questions and proposals from the public.

Every question found an answer and every proposal will find a space in our activity.

The meeting ended with an appeal to get involved with the next campaign activities and it seems that the appeal was heard indeed.

We'll post full minutes of this meeting as soon as they're ready. ...read more...