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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, Nov 4, 2005

Mayor admits he has no opinions

Humpty Dumpy sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpy had a great fall

and all the consultants consulted at length
just couldn't advise how to dump it again!

The Sub-committee on Ladywell is meeting again next Monday 7th November at 7:30 pm at Catford Town Hall.
This meeting will see the Mayor of Lewisham, Steve Bullock giving his version of events and answering the questions from the members.

The meeting will also see the Cabinet member for Education Cllr Kathy Donnelly and the Chief Executive Barry Quirk CBE.
Their written report are available online from the Council's website at this link.

Curiously, unlike anybody else the Mayor decided not to write the requested memory about his role in the affair, but decided that a paragraph saying that everything had already been said by others would do.

He didn't anyway miss the opportunity to remind that he acts on advice and therefore is not responsible for anything.
It's the officers's fault, not his.

As it is such a short report, we can put it here in full:

School Decision Making Process: Submission from the Mayor of Lewisham

I refer to your request for a written submission. I have reviewed the documentation that has been provided to the sub-committee by officers and it is clear that any additional submission by myself will only repeat information already before the Sub-Committee.

The commitment to building a new school was extant at the time of my election and in the light of the weight given to this issue during the election campaign I did not consider it possible to do anything other than proceed. Throughout this process I have made decisions on the basis of the advice given to me by officers. Unless expressly advised otherwise I have assumed that any decision recommended is deliverable and that the degree of risk is no greater than that attached to any other decision placed before me. It is not my role to substitute my own lay opinion for that of professional officers who advise me.

We think that the role of the Mayor is not to assume that decisions are deliverable, but to ensure that they are so. ...read more...

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