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
If his family agree I’d like to suggest Bentham, after Dr Bentham, a GP for many years in the Lee Green area. Likewise Mallory after Jim Mallory (if he agrees!)
Bentley is another possibility. Paul Bentley was the Lib Dem councillor from 2009 to 2010 who had a particular impact on the Lee Gate and its surrounds. E.g clearance of major flytipping by the garages in Carston Close and provision of street light on the adjacent passage. He also did a lot of liaison with the then property owners of the shopping centre. And yes, I am biased.
Lee Gate should be road name.
Woolworth road
Burnt Ash Drive
Lee Green Road
Karl Marx used to live in Lee Green. There was a huge display in the Weatherspoons explaing it too (which I always found funny).
There should be a Marx Street, Marx Tower or something of the likem
Manfred Mann…
Jude Law …
Both lived on Southbrook Road
Leegate… reference to the past
Please call one of the roads Lee Gate Road, in memory of the old Lee Gate centre.
Yes I thought Lee gate
I would like to suggest MALLORY HOUSE In respect of Jim Mallory who has done do much for the Lee Green community over many years. He has been an outstanding counsellor for our community.
Key army units stopped, consolidated and supplied at Lee Green, which was a major logistics hub, on the way to the Waterloo campaign in 1815.
Dragoon Lane, Guards House, Artillery Place would name check some of the main units involved and pay tribute to a forgotten story. The battle brought an end to decades of war and led to general peace ( with minor interruptions) in Europe for a century.