A reminder that the next meeting of the Lee Green Ward police panel is at 7 pm on Thursday the 24th of July 2025 at Manor House Library.
PCSO Iulian Matei says “This will serve to us as your local policing force as a great opportunity to hearing any of your opinions and any potential worries that we can address to the best of our ability and together come up with a plan going forwards for the year to solve them.
“Please feel free to extend/forward this invite to your fellow neighbours who wish to participate.”
Lewisham Council has announced that Blackheath Fireworks are coming back this year. The event will be held on Saturday 1 November 2025, from 4pm to 10.30pm.
It will be the first time the fireworks have been staged since 2017. Unlike in previous years it seems that visitors will have to buy tickets to get close to the display. The Council says more details will be announced in September.
The Council said “With support from a top events company, this year’s show will feature a show stopping fireworks display, entertainment, market stalls, and more. Event details will be announced in September. Watch this space!”
The Lewisham East MP Janet Daby is to take up worries about London Square’s plan to increase the height of the proposed Leegate Tower with Lewisham Council.
Ms Daby met representatives of local community groups, including the Lee Manor Society recently. She was told that there were concerns about both Lewisham Council’s and developer London Square’s commitment to transparency over the submission and consultation process of their recent Section 96A application and to ‘meaningful’ consultation with local residents.
Crucially Michael Haste, the Lee Manor Society planning expert and a retired architect flagged that by approving the recent removal of any reference to the heights of the proposed buildings at Leegate from the Planning Decision Notice (that Lewisham Council approved on 30th June 2025), the Council was now publicly stating that no developer in future would be required to provide any height information in any future Planning Application. Such information might now only be found in drawings and other documents making up a Planning Application.
The meeting was also attended by Sarah McMichael of the Lee Forum and former Councillor Jim Mallory, chair of the Lee Green Consortium, who raised other issues including the absence of general parking in the new development.
London Square says it doesn’t plan any residential parking except for Blue Badge spaces and two Car Clubs slots on Leyland Road. Ms Daby was told that London Square would be compelled by way of the agreed Section 106 Agreement (signed between Lewisham Council and Galliards) to enter into legally binding contracts with new Leegate residents to prevent them from even applying for CPZ parking permits in the area.
It is expected that Ms Daby will pass on the residents’ concerns to Lewisham Council by letter.
A new Zebra Crossing has recently been installed on Manor Lane close to the junction of Fernbrook Road and Southbrook Road. Two crossings are planned in total with the second to be constructed later this year.
The crossings replace the previous ‘School Crossing Patrol’ (or Lollipop Lady/Man as we used to call them). No mention is had in the Lee Green Councillors Report (July 2025) as to the fate of the said Lollipop Lady but we must assume that her role has been retired.
Lee Green Councillors have said that the new crossing will provide a safe location for crossing on a 24/7 basis instead of for just a few hours each day during school term time.
Combined with existing School Streets, the Lewisham and Lee Green Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the Sustainable Streets programme these new crossings are a part of Lewisham Council’s commitment to making sure that our streets are pedestrian friendly and support active travel throughout the borough.
Whilst traffic in general has seriously reduced along Manor Lane since the LTN was introduced around 4 years ago, this particular junction on Manor Lane remains busy and Lewisham’s Councillors are to be congratulated for finding the funding to implement such works for the safety of all local residents.
