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The New Lee Green Development – now you can suggest names for the buildings and roads

London Square is inviting the Lee community to suggest names for the new buildings being put up on the old Leegate site, now being marketed as Lee Green.

Vanessa Joyce, London Square’s Senior Development Manager told the Lee Manor Society they are looking for names for nine building entrances, and the internal roads, so are keen to get as many suggestions as possible. She has asked the Lee Manor Society to coordinate with other groups and societies in the area to get as many ideas as possible.

The important guidelines are:

  • They prefer names with local historical significance
  • You can’t have names which already exist in the borough (it confuses the postmen)
  • Names should be easy to pronounce and not awkward to spell
  • You can’t have a building or street name starting with “The”
  • Building names should use one of these suffixes: House, Court, Lodge, Mansions, Apartments, Point (residential only). Tower or Heights should only be used for high blocks (residential or offices).

If you have suggestions, please put them in the comment box below or email them to leemanorsociety@gmail.com

Vanessa Joyce says the final decisions will rest with London Square, Lewisham Council, the Post Office and Clarion Housing association (for Block B).

Meanwhile London Square has told us it has moved the hoarding line adjacent to Carston Close to make access easier.

Residents , please let us know if it is better now.

This article has been updated

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Have your say about the Manor House Gardens playground

Volunteers have begun a crowd-funding effort to renovate the playground in Manor House Gardens.

They say the play area has outdated grey surfacing installed over 20 years ago, unsafe flooring, and several pieces of broken equipment and it currently offers very limited activities for younger children.

Tima Jam, from Art Voyage which is behind the project, says they want to transform the playground into a colourful , more inclusive and inspiring space for local families and young people. She has the support, she says, of Arts Council England, Lewisham Council, Friends of Manor House Gardens, and Glendale Services.

As part of the project the team is conducting a survey of people who live or work in Lee. The feedback from the survey will help them campaign for new funding.

You can find the survey here.

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A Sunny Success – the Plant Mart and Garden Party raises a record sum

The Lee Manor Society Plant Mart and Garden Party raised a record £2,300 – beating last year’s record amount of £2,000.

The money will provide a huge boost to the Society’s work protecting the built and natural environment of Lee.

The funds will be used for planting trees and greening the area. We also have plans for a history heritage trail, and an exhibition about the history of Lee at Manor House Library in July.

Our major project is the Big Bed Rescue in Manor House Gardens. This ambitious initiative, in collaboration with the Friends of Manor House Gardens, will create an exciting new sensory and educational experience for visitors in the flower bed at the north end of the Gardens near the café. And, of course, our fund-raising also supports the running of the society, including our website.

The Society is hugely grateful to the many volunteers who helped with last weekend’s event. Everyone who donated plants and books, and baked cakes, and sold them. The wonderful Saxty team, who kept everyone sustained with top cream teas. Everyone who helped sell raffle tickets and Tombola tickets (sorry if you didn’t win!). Plus, our wonderful face-painter and water-colour artist.

Thanks too to the many people who lent tables, chairs and gazebos and helped put everything up and take everything down.

And of course, we are hugely indebted to the homeowners at numbers 2 and 4, and St Monica, who generously allowed us to use their front gardens and drives.

And as always, we are immensely grateful to the many Lee businesses and others who contributed prizes for the raffle, and helped us by advertising the event.

Give yourselves a massive round of applause!