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LTF special meeting Wednesday 21st March 11am

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Re the Mayor’s consultation on estate regen ballots

To:  LTF friends and contacts  

LTF is holding a meeting for members, friends and contacts on the Mayor’s consultation on estate regeneration ballots on 21st March at Ampthill Square Tenants Hall, Barnby Street, London NW1 2RS.

Please find attached a short LTF briefing on the Mayor’s consultation document.  It includes a summary of the consultation document, the GLA’s consultation questions and also (inserted and highlighted in yellow) some comments that LTF has made previously in other consultation responses, where appropriate.

Discussion at the meeting will feed into the LTF’s response to consultation and the drawing together of some key bullet points that we hope will support LTF members, friends and contact in making their own responses to the consultation.

If you are unable to attend the meeting but have any comments that you would like included in the discussion, please forward to me.

Best wishes

Sharon Hayward

Co-ordinator

London Tenants Federation

May Elections – Our new ward candidates speak – 28th March 2018

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OBF OLD BERMONDSEY FORUM
MEETING and UPDATE
6.30pm Wednesday 28 March
Globe House | Corner of Bermondsey Street & Crucifix Lane 

MAY COUNCIL ELECTIONS
OUR LABOUR AND LIB-DEM WARD COUNCILLORS ARE INVITED TO TALK ABOUT THEIR RESPECTIVE POSITIONS ON NEIGHBOURHOOD PLANNING TO INFORM YOUR VOTING
As our followers are now aware, the Council have refused to allow St Thomas St or the areas between the railway line and Tooley St to become part of our neighbourhood plan.  This is a brazen reassertion of their rejection of the whole principle of neighbourhood planning – at least in so far as it is anything other than another sham engagement of the community in the development of their neighbourhoods.  It is of course in line with their sham ‘consultations’ on planning issues generally.  We have instructed our specialist planning QC to advise on the legality of this decision as it makes neighbourhood planning meaningless; essentially, neighbourhoods can only have a plan if it endorses exactly with what the Council themselves want to do. We are allowed only to be their puppets.

It is obvious that the present Council are likely to continue their steadfast resistance to anything that stands in the way of their secretive cash-driven deals with developers, done behind closed doors.  So what support can we expect from at least our local Councillors? The Council elections on 3 May are our once-in-four-years opportunity to select at least three members of the Council so we have invited candidates for our redefined ward, London Bridge and West Bermondsey, to share their views and state their positions.

Currently confirmed to attend are:

Julie Eyles, John Batteson and Ed McDonagh of the Labour Party

and

Damien O’Brien, Ben Johnson of the Liberal Democrats

Also to be discussed is our response to the Council ‘s refusal of our area extension.  By the time of the meeting we expect to have legal advice on the prospects for a Judicial Review of the decision.

All Welcome

REMINDER: CONSULTATION ON THE OLD KENT ROAD AREA ACTION PLAN DROP IN SESSION

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We have prepared a further draft of the Old Kent Road Area Action Plan which we are consulting on until 21 March 2018. The documents are available to view on our website here.

The plan explains our strategy for the regeneration of the Old Kent Road, including the extension of the Bakerloo Line, to accommodate new homes, provide new jobs, leisure, shopping, parks and transport improvements in a new town centre over the next 20 years.

Come along to a drop-in session to find out more about the plan:

Wednesday 7 March 2018   4.30pm – 8.30pm   Christ Church Peckham, 676-680 Old Kent Road, London SE15 1JF

Fill out our online questionnaire on our consultation hub to give your views on the plan.
We look forward to hearing from you.

Southwark Council

planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk

020 7525 5471