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GAGGED!!!

The Agenda for Mayor and Cabinet meeting of next Wednesday 18th April should have included an item about the new Leisure Centre.

In fact on 20th March the residents present at the Area Forum for Lewisham Central, Lee Green and Blackheath used the prerogative given to them by the Constitution of the London Borough of Lewisham to place items in the Mayor and Cabinet Agenda and expressed their democratic right by voting in favour of this unambiguous text.

The Mayor and Cabinet Agenda has now been published and is available to download from this link.

The Order of Business of the Agenda includes this item:

That's all that the Agenda says about it.
There are no pages associated, there is no written report on the subject matter and the agenda does not even include the text voted by the Area Forum for the Mayor to consider.

The people of Lewisham has been gagged and a constitutional right is being denied!

This is an unacceptable behaviour. We asked an explanation to Lewisham Council but haven't received one yet.
This does not end here.

The Mayor is asked to agree that:

- the consultation on the Loampit Vale development carried out in October 2006 was inadequate and a new consultation should be undertaken;

- the Leisure Needs Assessment that underpinned the project for the new Leisure Centre has serious shortcomings and does not provide an adequate platform for the planning of the leisure facilities in the Borough;

- a new leisure needs assessment should be commissioned and that such assessment should consider a realistic forecast of increase in population, including the new developments at the Town Centre that are forecast by the change of UDP. It should also include those parts of the neighbouring London Borough of Greenwich falling into the catchment area as well as paying attention to the impact of the transport interchange;

- any detailed project for the new leisure centre be based on this new leisure needs assessment;

- a study of the impact of the re-location of the Leisure Centre from Ladywell to Loampit Vale should be carried out;

- a survey to assess the structural condition of the Ladywell Leisure Centre be conducted by an expert surveyor;

- the refurbishment of Ladywell Pool be costed and put to consultation as an option;

- the new leisure centre should not lose facilities compared to Ladywell Leisure Centre including a pool tank of equivalent or greater size than at Ladywell and the provision of an adequate deep end of the pool for the maintenance of scuba-diving training and the eventual re-introduction of competitive diving in the Borough;