Thank you for your patience with
us for changing the date of the LVIG AGM - the Brockley Noise Action Group is
very grateful to us for postponing so they could maximise the turn-out at their
meeting that evening.
We hope that you will be willing
and able to come to the public meeting which will now be held at the St Mary’s Centre from 7.30pm on 9th
April. We have lots of ideas for events,
activities and campaigns for the year(s) ahead and we’d love you be part of
bringing them into life with a view to improving our quality of life in
Ladywell. We’d really like to hear your great ideas and throw them into the mix
too!
For the group to make these
happen we need to elect a committee for 2014/15 and that’s where LVIG needs
some help from you! For LVIG to continue to exist it needs members of the local
community to represent it and become the public face for it.
As a committee member your
contribution does not need to be time consuming or onerous – your level of
input is your choice, but it will involve attending a few meetings a year and
doing a bit of admin as a minimum – anything more you can do will, of course,
be very much appreciated. Obviously, positions such as the Chair and Communications
and Events Officer require more activity, and you would need to feel
comfortable talking to community groups, leaders, councillors and the press
when the occasion warrants. A brief description of the committee roles can be
found below. Please email us if you’d like further information about these.
If
you’d like to make a difference in your local community by taking on one of the
Committee roles below please fil out and return a nomination form before
midnight on Saturday 5th April.
COMMITTEE POSITIONS
The Chair is the primary contact for the organisation, representing the organisation as necessary at meetings. He/she will, in normal circumstances, chair all meetings of the Group and ensure adherence to the Constitution.
The Vice-Chair & Treasurer handles all the Group’s financial arrangements, including any bank account the Group may open and any donations or subscription, and will chair meetings in the Chair’s absence
The Secretary arranges all the Group’s meetings, prepares and despatches agendas, minutes meetings, and retains copies of all agendas and minutes
The Membership Officer maintains the Group’s membership list
The Communications & Events Officer is responsible, in close liaison with the Chair, for the Group’s internal and external communications, including maintenance of the Blog and Twitter account)
The Deputy Secretary (see bullet 3 above)
The Deputy Communications & Events Officer (see bullet 5 above)
Just as we all thought the new Rivoli development, flung up at 59 Ladywell Road, is all-but finished with a sales open day just last month, it seems the developer wants to squeeze more value out of the site by adding another floor. This is logged as planning application DC/14/89383 and you can find more here.
Elen from the Ladywell Supper Club writes:
Residents in and around Fossil Road are campaigning to save their historic lamposts which are to be replaced, under the controversial and oft-criticised Skanska contract, by bland modern lampposts. There are few similar examples in our increasingly bland and characterless Lewisham streetscape and one has to feel very sypathetic to the petitioners' goal. Surely refurbishment to acceptable modern standards, albeit with some costs attached, must be an option?
Following the great success of last year's market, this year's Christmas Market in Ladywell will be taking place on Saturday 6th December.
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Many of you will already be aware of the existence of the Ladywell Fields Park User Group, the motley grouping of local residents, volunteers, councillors, eco champions, joggers and cyclists, dogwalkers, statutory reps and others that works together to protect and enhance our wonderful Park and the River Ravensbourne that runs through it.
A planning application has been submitted to convert the long-empty 'Snack Bar' at 40 Ladywell Road (next to Le Delice) into a restaurant. You can have a look at the plans here.
At tomorrow evening’s Ladywell hustings meeting (at Prendergast Hilly Fields College) questions
will be asked, by the public, to candidates standing for election in Ladywell Ward
in the 22 May Borough Elections.
The Ladywell Fields User Group reports that the Ladywell Fields café is to be refurbished by the Jimmy Mizen Foundation (10,000 Hands) on the basis of the plan shown here (Option 3 from the feasibility study of 2 years ago).
