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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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 We, Nov 2, 2005

Council doesn't have record of consultation on Ladywell

...It may be the case that your specific information does not exist.

With this sentence the Freedom of Information office of Lewisham Council is admitting defeat in the incredible case of the lost consultation.

When last year we asked Lewisham Council what consultation had been done with regard to sport facilities to justify the closure of the Ladywell Leisure Centre this was what we were told (in writing):

"The decision to relocate Ladywell Leisure Centre to the Sundermead estate was taken following a public consultation in late 1999. The consultation meeting was well attended, with strong support for relocation and modernisation of the facilities..."

With such detailed description, it is with dismay that we have now to register that the Council doesn't have any paper about this consultation meeting... ...read more...

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