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In 2004Lewisham Council announced plans to demolish Ladywell Leisure Centre in 2007 - we saved it! The pool will stay open until the forecast replacement is ready.  Sadly the plan is awfully inadequate and instead of being a plan for a community sport and leisure centre it is a plan for a lifestyle pool for the new residential developments to be built in front of Lewisham Station.

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 Fr, Oct 7, 2005

Sub-committee member attempts to gag opposition

On Monday 3rd October 2005 the sub-committee set up by the Overview and Scrutiny Education Business Panel to look at the Ladywell issue met for the third time.

This time it was for the Head of BSF program and the Head of Property to give their version of events.

But the meeting's most significant event was to be another.

It was Councillor Madeleine Long's attempt to remove 2 other committee members accusing them of ‘prejudicial interest’.

According to her the opposition members Councillor Helen LeFevre and Councillor Julia Fletcher had personal interests in the outcome of the sub-committee’s findings and therefore both of them should remove themselves from the meetings.

In Cllr Long's accusation, the two members were guilty of undisclosed association with campaigns like the Save Ladywell Pool Campaign and the New School Campaign.

She said that members of the public belonging to these two residents' campaigns regularly attend those meetings with the intent of reporting the events on websites like the Save Ladywell Pool Campaign website... ...read more...

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