Just in case you didn’t manage to get tickets to the Coronation Festival or Evening Gala at Buckingham Palace, the Association is organising an alternative event for members on Sunday 14th July!  We had already planned to hold our annual Summer Picnic on that day so, in addition to everyone bringing a dish to share and the Association providing the liquid refreshments, we will be hanging up the bunting sewn by volunteers for last year’s Jubilee party and, with the permission of the Council, closing off the sections of the road around the Triangle at the junction of Horniman Drive and Liphook/Rocombe Crescent.  While the adults are busy eating and drinking, activities and games for the children are planned, including three-legged and egg and spoon races – perhaps for the adults as well as the children.  Any comments or suggestions would be most welcome, so please let us know your ideas either via your road rep or by e-mail to secretary@tewkesburylodge.org.uk

 If you would like to come and are not already a member, why not go to our ‘Join Now’ page?

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June’s committee meeting

The latest committee meeting was held on 20th June. Here’s a summary of what we discussed.

The next edition of our newsletter, Views from the Hill, will be delivered to all households shortly, together with the subscription envelope for the current membership year.  We discussed moving towards an online payment system for our membership subscriptions.  We would love to hear your views on this, so please do get in touch and let us know if you think this a good idea.

We also discussed arrangements for the Association’s annual Summer Picnic on Sunday 14th July.  We want to encourage as many people as possible to attend – it’s a great way to meet the committee members and your neighbours.  The date coincides with the Coronation festival weekend, so we are planning a host of activities and games for the children, and will ask the Council if we can close off the sections of the road around the Triangle at the junction of Horniman Drive and Liphook Crescent.  Do let us know if you have any ideas for making it a really enjoyable occasion.

Succession planning is also one of our ongoing considerations  As much as we all enjoy our work with the Association, we all feel that we would all benefit from new faces on the committee, and would welcome new people who would like to be more involved in the Association’s activities. If you would like to find out more about what this would involve, please drop us a line.

One last item concerned a clothing bank wrongly installed by the Council on Langton Rise.  Thanks to a resident’s quick reaction in notifying the Association, our Chair emailed the Council’s Environmental Services department, and the clothing bank was removed within a few days. See more information in our Success Stories section.

Our next committee meeting is in August, so do let us know if there are any issues you would like to bring to our attention.

Rowena Lowe
Association Secretary

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Please sign the 20mph petition

The Association have organised a petition calling for the 20 mph zone along Honor Oak Road to be extended.

Valerie and Rowena from the Association have worked with councillors Philip Peake and Alex Feakes to call on over 400 houses in the area. So far we have 271 signatures supporting the petition.

Since presenting the petition, Cllr Peake has met with senior council officers to discuss the problems with traffic and parking along the stretch of Honor Oak Road from the junction with Horniman Drive to that with Forest Hill Road. A fuller account of this meeting and the work on this issue can be found here: http://bit.ly/fairlawn20

It is always helpful to gather more support for these proposals and we didn’t find everyone in when we called, so we have also set up an online petition:

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/mayor-of-lewisham-we-would-like-lewisham-council-to-extend-the-forest-hill-nw-20mph-zone-2

If you have yet to sign the petition and would like to, please do so today.

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March to save Lewisham Hospital – 26th January

As you will no doubt be aware, the A&E and maternity units at Lewisham Hospital are under threat of closure.  A community campaign to fight the proposed closure needs the help of residents to keep up pressure on the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, who will make the decision on the future of the hospital at the beginning of February.

More details are available in the latest edition of our newsletter, and there is a march in Lewisham on Saturday 26th January to protest against the closure. If you would like to join the march, meet at Lewisham roundabout (by the station) for 12 midday.

And help the campaign organisers to reach their goal of 30,000 signatures by signing the on-line petition today?  http://www.savelewishamhospital.com/

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Snow on the hill

Well, its a little later than recent winters, but snow finally arrived in force on the hill this weekend.

The roads on the estate have remained relatively clear, and many residents took full advantage of the weekend snowfall to enjoy the ‘Horniman Alps’!

Do you have any photos of the snow you would like to share? If so please send them to us and we’ll add them to this gallery.

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51-53 Canonbie Road, 3rd Planning application submitted

As you may already be aware, a third planning application to demolish the single dwelling at 51-53 Canonbie Road in order to build a block of six flats has been submitted to Lewisham Planning. Local residents, and the Association, have objected to this application. View the full objection letter here. A shortened version of the Association’s objection letter is available below for you to make use of should you wish to do so.

Objection Letter for Residents

As mentioned in previous newsletter articles (when previous applications were submitted), the Association is concerned that should this application be successful then others may do the same.

Full details of the application can be found here:
Lewisham planning application

We would like to encourage as many people as possible to respond to the Lewisham planning department at the below address:
planning@lewisham.gov.uk

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