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Campaign Success: Keep our A&E

Following some fierce campaigning by the local Labour Party, the future of Lewisham Hospital has now been secured.
Over the last year, I’ve been out collecting signatures and knocking on doors to make sure that health professionals and the government were made aware of the strength of local opinion. Our campaign has been backed by all [...]

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Dancing in Downham

Lewisham’s Cabinet Member for Older People, Cllr Peggy Fitzsimmons and I took some time out today to visit the Over 60s Line Dancing Group at the Downham Leisure Centre.
We were there to give them some good news about funding for the class over the next year, but they also persuaded us to have quick dance [...]

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Heathside & Lethbridge Consultation Event

The regeneration of the Heathside and Lethbridge estate has been in development for a number of years but has come a step closer in recent months as dicussions between Lewisham Council and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) have progressed.
The planning application for the first phase (largely the derelict buildings on Blackheath Hill) was launched [...]