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Open Meeting & AGM Wednesday 13 November 2019 St Peter’s Church, Wickham Rd, SE4 1LT 7.30pm: Speaker: S.I. Martin: Black Historical Presence in from 1593 onwards Steve I Martin specialises in the fields of Black British history and literature. He works with museums, archives and the education sector to bring diverse histories to wider audiences. 8.45-9.30pm: Annual General Meeting Brandt Karl Photograph: Brockley Society proposes to update its Hilly Fields Fayre 22 June 2019: Crowds round the arena enjoy Heart of Steel Orchestra’s music. 1974 constitution to become a Community More pictures on page 3 Infrastructure Organisation (CIO) Association Model. Membership has included everyone living in the Brockley Conservation Hilly Fields Fayre 22 June 2019 Area and anyone else who wishes to be a member. We will retain this, with two forms Once again we were blessed with fine weather Orchestra, Raptorxotics bird of prey display, of membership: for what felt like the best attended Fayre and the ever-popular dog show judged by 1) Voting membership open to anyone who ever. Thousands of visitors from far and John Hankinson Vets. Feedback from the has indicated agreement with the charity’s wide were entertained by the Telegraph many stallholders was extremely positive, purposes and who accepts the duty of Community Choir, Aquila Taekwondo, the and our own Tea & Cake and Barbecue members set out in the constitution. Annual Lewisham Concert Band, Heart of Steel stalls were kept very busy. We are extremely or Special General Meetings will elect the grateful to the programme advertisers, raffle trustees to manage the charity and set up sub- prize donors and volunteers on the day for committees. making the event the consistent success it 2) Informal or associate (non-voting) is. Over £4000 was raised, which will be put membership retains our open membership and towards Brockley Society activities over the allows involvement in all our activities. coming year. We are commited to making The AGM will also elect officers (Chair, Vice next year’s Fayre (20 June 2020) as eco- Chair, Secretary and Treasurer) and committee friendly as possible, and will be introducing members. plastic restrictions for caterers, amongst Email [email protected] if you wish to stand for a position or help on a other measures. sub-committee: Planning; Hilly Fields Fayre; Archives; MidWinter Warmer; Comms & Admin; Breakspears Mews Community Bakerloo Line extension Garden or new projects. The proposals is to extend the Bakerloo line Ÿ Street Trees for Living is becoming a beyond Elephant & Castle to Lewisham, separate charity, independent of Brockley serving Old Kent Road and Society. We welcome this development and Gate. will report on progress For more information and to give your Brockley Society in future views, please visit: tfl.gov.uk/bakerloo- Thursday 23 January, 7-9pm extension and respond by Sunday 22 Lewisham College, Lewisham Way, (tbc) December 2019. Invitation to a lively interactive event: See the website for details of times and Tell us what Brockley Society means to you! locations of public exhibitions where Compere: to be confirmed staff involved will be available to answer questions. Midwinter Warmer for Seniors Saturday 15 February, 1-5pm Brockley Social Club, 240 Brockley Road, SE4 St Peter’s at Christmas Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre Sunday December 15th Saturday 20 June 2020, 12 noon to 5pm Christingle Service Pantomime at Theatre for all the family at Brockley Christmas Market Sunday 1 December, 5pm 10.30am 12-6pm, Saturday 7 December, Brockley Society books a block of 150 Sunday December 15th Coulgate Street, by Brockley Sctation. tickets, which reduces adult prices to £18 Candlelit Carols at 6pm 72 stalls! 60 craft / gifts, hot food, mulled while Children pay £14.50. They are sold with mulled wine and wine, face-painter, cookie decorating, on a first- come-first-served basis until they mince pies Christmas fairy and tree lighting for the kids. run out. Book on Brockley Society’s website See the website: www. [email protected] at http:// brockleysociety.org.uk/shop/ and stpetersbrockley.org.uk for information, Brockley Open Studios Christmas Fair select how many adult and children’s tickets including on Job Club. you want, plus £2 postage. Pay with PayPal Saturday 23 November 2019, 12-4pm Pete’s Parlour, Friendship Cafe on or credit card. Your tickets will be posted to St. Peter’s Church, Wickham Road SE4 1LT First and Third Friday mornings each you. Pick up a special gift for this year’s month 10.30am to noon, All are welcome Please book before Monday 18 November Christmas. to coffee, tea, cake and conversation brockleyopenstudios.co.uk to be sure you receive your tickets in time. Bitter sweet news about former former about news Bitter sweet Nazanin resident Brockley Her Zaghari-Ratcliffe. has now Gabriella, daughter, with be to to come still is Nazanin But father. her John Beddoe John Iain MacGregor Iain 22 September 1966 - 29 July 2019 - 29 July 1966 22 September Iain was an unknown yet well-known well-known yet an unknown Iain was a developing Iain battled 2018 From to be sorely and will continue Iain is, wife Ania and behind his He leaves John was of Welsh descent. His funeral descent. His funeral of was John Welsh She cannot see her daughter even She cannot see her daughter even It is with great sadness that we note the we sadness that great It is with of died who Iain MacGregor passing away in July. years many because for resident Brockley of the co-ordinator he was the well-loved Fields Hilly Society barbeque at Brockley manhandling seen annually Iain was fayre. a set of a period of barbecue tongs for up running the military- to six hours while and sharing the task with styled operation and wife Ania. children his well-drilled period month 18 an over tumour brain him. While overcame eventually that and deterioration a gradual suffering Iain approached debilitation, considerable that with a determination his diagnosis as active staying defied life and death, his within possible physically long as was sports of and rowing. cycling favourite those ofmissed by had who us in Brockley of privilege the barbecueThe him. knowing toup live to lot awful an have will operation he left in the gap as will managing in future ofthe lives and friends. his family Hamish and Cameron. Morgan, children John lived on Tyrwhitt Road for about 35 about for Road on Tyrwhitt lived John known was he man, private very A years. as a helpful and good residents many by with a cheerful, stoical nature neighbour, and poor health. despite his hardships Road along Tyrwhitt He used to stroll a keen Fields and was Hilly and around 29 at gardening in his own evident gardener, the Sydenham He attended Road. Tyrwhitt the start. from Project Gardening on 18 crematorium at was A day. September on a warm and sunny handful of the last of neighbours brought garden. his small from the summer flowers Canon Rev by conducted was service The and was of Farley-Moore St John’s Peter the from a representative by attended in held was he where Project, Sydenham high regard. Nazanin’s daughter Nazanin’s to be a believed in jail on spurious charges, Britain and Iran. in a dispute between pawn comes hope her release Let’s occasionally. soon.

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Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre 2019 on film: If you haven’t already seen Aloha London’s charming film of the 2019 Hilly Fields Midsummer Fayre, have a look on Youtube: https://youtu.be/H5c4Jz5RmuI Top row, l to r: Honey brought sweetness; Cakes & a Cuppa under the parasols; a dial-up telephone alongside Jimi Hendrix. Bottom row: Breakspears Mews Community Garden; the busy tea-and-cake marquee; enjoying farm animals

The Quaggy River - Brockley Society meeting Ward Boundary Review Wearing shorts on a hot evening, Paul de drainage system. And we know that litter Zylva was the speaker at Brockley Society’s runs into the sea. Avoid tipping debris over LB Lewisham (LBL) convened a meeting on 10 July meeting at Brockley Social Club. Paul garden fences into the river. 16 August 2019 with the Local Government is Chair of the Quaggy Waterways Action The next projects are at Confluence Park Boundary Commission (LGBC) on the Group, QWAG. near Lewisham Station, and a longer stretch possibilities of ward boundary changes. After the Second World War, concrete of water from to Sutcliffe Park. A We were shocked to find that LBL Officers troughs were built to channel rivers lot to discover in this green borough, where had already proposed that Ward in Lewisham and beyond to provide there are now kingfishers in Brookmill Park. should be expunged with Polling Areas employment. We see these at Juliet Johnson absorbed by Brockley and Lewisham Bridge DLR and Brookmill Park and now Central Wards. realise they make flooding worse and present This caused an outcry by Ladywell the danger of falling over a vertical wall to representatives with a demand to extend concrete below. H.S. Bodey LGBC’s consultation deadline from 2 to 16 Even in Napoleonic times of the early September. 1800s, a very early concrete channel was built Quixpede Cycles Ltd A ‘Save Ladywell Campaign’ was initiated in Manor Park. via a local meeting at St Mary’s Centre on Shallow banks and meanders, as at Ladywell I am compiling a short publication on 27 August. LBL’s response was to offer a Fields near Lewisham Hospital, can absorb a company that my grandfather was a revised proposal on 30 August to create a a far greater volume of water and soak director of from 1949-1972 - H.S. Bodey new ‘Ladywell Brockley’ Ward. up pollution, and do not get clogged with Quixpede Cycles Ltd. At present the whole BrocSoc’s Planning Group met on 3 branches. But even in the 1990s underground book consists only of just over 2,000 words September together with local residents channels for urban rivers were planned. and a few images. Sadly that is all the from the Geoffrey Road area and considered Paul stressed the interdependent nature of documentation I managed to retrieve four options: rivers – we all rely on each other. In south-east when I shut the shop down following my 1. Keep to the status quo with Brockley and London, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bromley grandfather’s death in 1972. Ladywell Wards as existing; 2. Accept LBL’s and Croydon Councils are working together I am hoping that readers may be able to initial proposal to expunge Ladywell Ward; on our strengths: to create open spaces and assist me with documentation, photographs 3. Consider LBL’s revised proposal for ‘a green waterway connectors. Waterlink Way or memories. new ‘Ladywell Brockley’ Ward; 4. Create from south Lewisham to the Thames can be Henry Simon Bodey born on 12 October an updated version of Option 1 with better explored on foot. 1870 in Clifton Gloucestershire, married account taken of population impacts likely In 1994 an underground channel was Ellen Amelia Jelf in 1897. Sadly she died at Lewisham Gateway and New Cross Gate. planned and then abandoned, at Sutcliffe aged 27 in 1901. In 1908 he married Annie Option 4 was supported unanimously. Park in Greenwich, and by 2004 this was a Robinson and moved to Lewisham High Our proposals were sent to Ward shallow river with Willows growing. Another Street c1910. Councillors in time for the Extraordinary concerted effort transformed the river at He opened his first shop at 142 (later Council meeting on 11 September and also Chinbrook Meadows beside Grove Park, renumbered to 198) Lewisham High Street to LGBC as a formal submission. Save from the concrete trough of 2001 to tree- from 1910-1938. This is now the right-hand Ladywell Campaign did the same. LGBC’s lined shallows by 2003. side of The Watchouse public house. acknowledgement advised that their draft Contour maps will show the seven hills He opened the second shop at 110 recommendations will be published in of Lewisham, and the watersheds between, Lewisham High Road (later Lewisham December 2019. taking water to the Thames – yes, squeezed Way) in 1924-1972. This is now Second CJ by developers, but also being opened up. Time Around furniture. In 1949 he started The QWAG website www.qwag.org. a Limited Company H.S. Bodey Quixpede uk shows the issues, and how we can get Cycles Ltd at this address. I have a list of The third shop was at 9 The Pavement (later involved, working in wellies. the directors, their shareholdings, accounts renumbered and renamed 73 Ladywell Road) Rivers encompass a view of everything: and companies dealt with for 1967-1968 from 1939-1957. This is now Xpressions humans, walking, animals, fishes, birds, and various other oddments of information. hairdressers. geography, geology, plants, litter, history, There are also a number of images of the Henry Simon Bodey died in 1951. Another safety, design of spaces, consultation: the list shop with a written layout. I also have director and my grandfather ran the business goes on. images of various trade events that the until he died in 1972 Avoid paving gardens, overloading the directors attended. Melvyn Harrison, [email protected] Friends of Hilly Fields The origin of Brockley’s name - Letters Our next volunteering session will be on The text for Ruth Wong’s presentation on I think ‘Brook and water meadows’ Is Sunday 3rd November, 10:30 - 12:30 where Brockley Mews & Greenways on 11 May far more likely, so I support the Oxford we will be working on the WWI meadow 2019 stating that Brockley derives its name Dictionary Place Names. and adjacent area. Everyone is welcome to from ‘broca’, an Old English word meaning Chris Johnson, 47 years resident in Brockley, come and help. If you confirm in advance to wood clearing or stream (i.e. brook), and with 39 in Wickham Road (who wrote the text [email protected], it helps ensure ‘Ley’ meaning wood. quoted): we have enough tools and jobs for everyone. Reader Mark Beesley, 23 years resident of I am aware of the alternate meaning of In November we will have a separate session Wickham Rd, disagrees: ‘brock’ (as ‘badger’ or even as ‘stinking to plant tree saplings when the delivery date is My Chambers dictionary says Brock means vermin’) and that this connection is most confirmed. We plant our trees small as they are: badger from the OE brocc and Ley means frequently assumed to be correctly attributed 1. more manageable when planting meadow or pasture from OE laege. In an area via references in modern dictionaries and 2. easier to keep sufficiently watered in their predominantly wooded (as it was at the time) the likes of AD Mills’ book (p33) on A early years ‘Over there by the Badger Meadow’ would Dictionary of London Place Names OUP, 3. have a better success rate with the seem to make more sense than ‘Over there by 2001 & 2010, via Wikipedia. establishment of healthy trees for the wood clearing-wood’. However, more recent authoritative source future Our president and local historian, Gillian material refer to ‘broca’ as a ‘brook’ and ‘ley’ 4. they are free, so we don’t need to use our Heywood, 43 years a resident of North as a ‘wood’ via their respective cognates of relatively small funds to buy them! Brockley, has another view: broc and leah. Over the next few years we will need to thin The Oxford Dictionary of Place Names The Landscape of Place Names by Margaret and transplant them where possible. 1936 edition, is where I originally sourced Gelling and Ann Cole (as published by Shaun Many tree diseases threaten our mature tree the derivation. Brucca translates to Brook, Tyas, Dorrington, 2014) attributes: stock, including in our park, particularly the a Kentish word — and Brockley was Kent Ÿ ‘broc’ to be a minor settlement name ash and the horse chestnut and we have now till 1896. Leäh means a water meadow. The associated with streams (p6) and indicates had infestations of the oak processionary original Brockley was in the valley between (p8) that this is closely associated with the moth on several mature oak trees. This is Hilly Fields and Telegraph Hill. There was geology of settlements typical of the clays and why we need a replacement plan so our a stream running from south of Brockley gravels of the London Basin and by inference park remains leafy in the future. Our trees Station, at the back of Rokeby Road in can also be linked to the incidence of ‘brook’ are supplied free from the Woodland Trust. Luxmore Gardens, crossing Lewisham Way related names locally such as Chinbrook, https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant- between Nos. 130 & 132 behind the Library Cranbrook, Kidbrooke, Brookmill, etc trees/why-plant-trees/ (Arthouse), to Tanner’s Hill and Deptford Ÿ ‘leah’ to be used as a generic term as a Scavenger hunts, postcards and tote bags Creek at Deptford Broadway. habitative land use indicator originally in the are available in Pistachio’s cafe in the park. This stream is shown on the Tythe map of ancient form of a managed wood or latterly Sales are a valuable source of income for the 1845. If you look at the terrain now, and read as a meadow or pasture (p220) and that local purchase of seeds, bulbs, stakes for trees and the contours on a large scale map, you will ‘leah’ or ‘ley’ related names persist currently mud kitchen items and even the new corten see that the land between and in Bexley, Bromley, Swanley, etc (see p239 et steel entrance signs. Brockley Cross is almost flat, so there could seq). I trust this therefore clarifies. have been water meadows all along what is now Brockley Road. Ÿ Mark Beesley also corrects our mention of Ice cream van This ancient route from Deptford, became The French bus company Flixbus: ‘In fact, known as Brockley Lane on its way to Flixbus was formed by three entrepreneurs Glendale, who manage Lewisham’s parks, Brockley Green via Deptford Common (near from Munich and is a German company. have instructed all ice cream vans that they Brockley Cross) running along the valley (But the residents were right to polish up can no longer leave their engines idling in from the Great North Wood’s northern limit their French to speak with the drivers.)’ We parks. This means they can only sell ice at Hatcham Wood and on to Croydon., thank him for his self-confessed pedantry! cream in scoops To continue to sell the ‘Mr Whippy’-style ice-cream near the Hilly Fields playground, the owner requests that an electric source is provided. We hope Glendale Satellite dishes in the conservation area - Letters puts this in place. Letter from a reader department mean enforcement action is Friends of Brockley and The number of satellite dishes appearing in the less likely. front of Victorian houses in the conservation You can report planning breaches to the Ladywell Cemeteries (FoBLC) area has been rising dramatically over the council directly at planningenforcement@ past couple of years. In Tyrwhitt Road, lewisham.gov.uk. You will have a better Remembrance Day Tressillian Road and elsewhere the rise has chance of success if you focus on individual Sunday 10th November been particularly dramatic. Some houses dishes that have been recently installed and 10.55am – 12.05pm approx have two, three or even four dishes. The can supply before and after photos (use Meet at the Ladywell Cemetery Cross of aesthetic impact on the Conservation Area Google Street View). Satellite dishes on Sacrifice for our annual Remembrance is already significant. What is remarkable is houses divided into flats. could be significantly Day event. Wreath laying at the Cross that these dishes appear in the front of these reduced if neighbours cooperated or the of Sacrifice after the two-minute silence, houses although their owners could easily council brought it up with the housing Visit to three other relevant graves. Final have placed them at the back of the buildings, associations, wreath-laying at the Deptford memorial in away from the public eye. They would still be For more information on what changes are Brockley Cemetery able to enjoy the TV service they want but permitted in the Brockley Conservation Area, Podcasts about notable deceased without blatantly neglecting the appearance visit https://lewisham.gov.uk/myservices/ Local media company Tempest Productions of the entire neighbourhood. planning/conservation/conservation-areas/ has produced podcasts researched and One wonders why they do so and what, if brockley-conservation-area voiced by Vice-Chair Mike Guilfoyle on anything, the local council’s officials will do a variety of deceased in the Cemeteries to deal with this problem, before it is too late. available on our website www.foblc.org.uk Brockley Society replies: More on Janet Logan and via the Tempest Productions website The Brockley Conservation Area is subject to www.tempestproductions.net/podcasts an ‘Article 4 direction’. Any material changes I write to add that, in addition to all the other A reminder of our publications to a property that are visible from the street things mentioned about the late Janet Logan Ÿ A brief biographical guide to 30 of the need planning permission and must be in (edition 146, June 2019), she was a volunteer illustrious deceased buried in Brockley and keeping with the character of the area. The at Victim Support when I was the Lewisham Ladywell Cemeteries by Mike Guilfoyle council’s planning guidance recognises the scheme coordinator between 2006 and 2009 Ÿ A second brief biographical guide to detrimental effect that satellite dishes (and and knew Janet as someone who put others 30 of the illustrious deceased buried in other changes, such as inappropriate doors, first and who made time for people and, Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries by fences etc.) can have. as a result, got out of life what she put in. I Mike Guilfoyle. Satellite dishes are unsightly, but we hope her family have found comfort in that Both booklets are priced at £3.50 plus have tended to focus our limited resources knowledge. postage and packing (80p per copy). elsewhere. Cuts to Lewisham’s planning Colin Finch, Albyn Road

PLANNING APPLICATIONS Before you start making decisions on any changes to your property, planning permission (doors, windows, roof, driveways, gates, walls, we strongly advise you to look at the Council’s guidelines at: www. fences, painting the exterior). lewisham.gov.uk. Click through myservices / Planning/ Conservation You can view planning applications in the Planning section of the and urban design / Conservation areas / Brockley. The Brockley website, and then select ‘Search and comment …’ You must log in to make Conservation Area Supplementary Planning Document describes a comment supporting or objecting to an application. what building modifications will be allowed. Under the Article 4 To get involved in preserving the character of Brockley or for further direction external changes visible from public viewpoints require guidance on planning issues, contact [email protected] May to October 2019 123 Breakspears Road SE4 - Replace timber Prendergast School, Adelaide Avenue SE4 - framed windows to front and rear elevations 351) Remove window on ground and first floor, install Pending: 31 St Margarets Road SE4 - Dormer in rear roof doors, construct external staircase to first floor 15 Harefield Road SE4 - Two rooflights to rear slope level roofslope 17 Harefield Road, SE4 - Two double glazed uPVC 4 Drake Road, SE4 - Single storey extension to 315 Brockley Road SE4 - Alterations to shopfront sash style windows in First floor flat rear, new bike and bin storage area to side 127 Upper Brockley Road SE4 - Single storey rear 54 Geoffrey Road, SE4 - Demolish existing upper 19 Breakspears Road SE4 - Replace timber sash extension; one timber sash window to rear ground floor rear extension, construct first floor and casement windows with timber framed double 12 Harefield Road SE4 - Single storey rear rear extension; rear dormer roof extension; glazed windows to front and side, double glazed extension, bin and bike stores at front rooflight in flank roofslope; alterations to lower uPVC windows and French doors to rear 120 Upper Brockley Road SE4 - Replace existing ground floor fenestration on side and rear 52 Breakspears Road SE4 - Timber sliding sash roof coverings with new fibre cement slate to front elevations 211) windows to front and rear, double glazed uPVC and rear garden doors to rear 120 Upper Brockley Road SE4 - Replace windows Granted: 112 Breakspears Road SE4 - Timber sliding sash to front and rear 15 Beverley Court SE4 - New glazing and door windows to front and rear, double glazed uPVC 10 Montague Avenue SE4 - Replace double glazed to main entrance, new enlarged rear doors, new garden doors to rear sliding sash timber framed windows to front windows to side elevation; replace aluminium 6 Glensdale Road SE4 - Replace single storey rear windows to front and rear; two skylights to rear Refused: and side extension roofslope 113 Tyrwhitt Road SE4 - Change of use from 156A Tressillian Road SE4 - Single storey rear 12 Harefield Road SE4 - Dormer roof extension HMO for up to 6 (Use Class C4) to HMO for up extension, demolish rear conservatory, new to rear to 10 residents (sui generis) window in side elevation 12 Manor Avenue SE4 - Replace two storey rear 29 Manor Avenue SE4 - Roof dormer with balcony 1 Wickham Gardens SE4 - Replace part single, extension to main rear roofslope, extension to side roofslope part two storey extension to rear, roof alterations 60 Geoffrey Road, SE4 - Single/ two storey rear and new roof access window including removal of existing hipped roof and extension, steps from basement level to garden extension of existing gable-end roof level Trees: 27A Tressillian Road, SE4 - Single storey infill Rear of 153-155 Upper Brockley Road SE4 - 74 Manor Avenue SE4 - Front: plum tree, extension to rear of lower ground floor flat Demolish existing garages, construct two single crown reduction and works. Rear. eucalyptus, 2 20 St Margaret’s Road, SE4 - Replace double storey plus basement live/work units sycamores, crown reduction and works glazed timber framed windows Flat C, 44 Tressillian Road, SE4 - Alterations to 79 Tressillian Road SE4 - Front: Sycamore tree, St Andrews United Reformed Church, Brockley wall openings, new doors and timber screens to buddleia tree, hawthorn tree Road SE4 - Metal gate with stone piers in existing front and rear of garage, adaptation of garage to 67A Upper Brockley Road SE4 - Rear/side: Fell fence on Wickham Road an artist’s studio lime, health and safety, duty to replace Rear of 3 Wickham Road SE4 - Retrospective 54 Breakspears Road SE4 - Replace double glazed 103 Breakspears Road SE4 - Front: fell 3 lime planning permission for change of use of garages timber windows to all elevations; Replace door to trees, 2 other trees from ancillary residential storage (Use Class C3) rear 43 Harefield Road SE4 - Rear: work on multiple to commercial storage (Use Class B8) 13 Breakspears Mews SE4 - Remove garage door, trees, including felling 3 Rear of 133 Upper Brockley Road SE4 – Construct glazing and new cladding materials to front 13A Chalsey Road SE4 - Front: fell one conifer a single storey building for use as an art and design Ground Floor Flat 50 Adelaide Avenue, SE4 - studio, accessed from Ashby Mews Double glazed wooden sash windows

The small section of Tressillian Road between posted a reminder a few days before the bin the Sunflower Centre and the junction with Bin amnesty amnesty date, identifying a designated area St Margaret’s Road has had over 80 bins for collection. permanently stacked along the pavement compliance. But there was no change. We I am happy to say that 15 surplus bins were outside houses, every day. We wanted to work also put a reminder in the Brockley Society collected by the council! with residents to reestablish the pavement as newsletter Bins left on the pavement outside houses a public footpath that is compliant with the So we worked with Lewisham’s Waste blight many streets. We thought this was quite Disability Discrimination Act. Management team at Wearside Service a cost-effective and simple way to address the The council sent letters reminding residents Centre and planned a ‘bin amnesty’. To problem and quite easy to replicate across the of the requirement to return bins onto their make this cost-effective we hand delivered borough. premises by the end of collection day and the letters that the council had addressed, Jane Rowlands then a sterner one to outline the fines for non- printed off and put in window envelopes, and Aircraft noise Sash Windows & Front Doors Overhauled and Draughtproofed Aircraft noise is already a big If LHR expands and there are more flights problem for many residents. to LHR, the disruption could be as if we were Stairs Repaired Expansion plans exist for living next door to LHR.” London City Airport and Heathrow Community Relations replied: Malcolm Tierney multiple public meetings have been in areas Consultation … The feedback we received is 0777 565 7371 affected, including parts of Lewisham. informing our approach to future operations. Similarly, expansion plans at Heathrow ‘We expect to be presenting final flight path [email protected] will affect residents in Brockley. Quentin options and full analysis of each route in Livingston recently contacted Heathrow: 2022, where we will be holding consultation “I live in Brockley SE4 which is very much events in a number of wide reaching locations. on the flight path for LHR. I was woken Please visit our current Airport Expansion Intro to music reading for Guitar yesterday at 04:30 by a plane coming over. Consultation website: Learn how to play simple melodies “You are running consultations about https://aec.heathrowconsultation.com/ the expansion of LHR and have meetings topics/future-operations-introduction/’ 10 week course for those 16+ y/o arranged all over the place. But none in If this doesn’t seem reassuring, visit website Starts 8th Jan 2020 (Wednesday) SE London. Someone who lives directly of the campaign organisation, HACAN, “A Time; 7.30pm - 8.30pm; Cost: £120 under the flightpath I feel that we should be voice for those under Heathrow flightpaths”, Taught by Jacqueline Grant involved in consultations. Any change in the hacan.org.uk. They have monitoring future [email protected] number of flights will affect us living in this problems for years. Tel: 020 8694 1409 part of London. Christmas songs for the Ukulele Five week course for adults, Starts 11 November (Monday) Time: 7.30pm - 8.30pm; Cost: £60 Taught by Jacqueline Grant [email protected] Tel: 020 8694 1409

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