Sydenham Town Forum

Some facts. John Hamilton's election address said and I quote "Do we need a directly elected Mayor? In 2001 only 9% of us voted to have the directly elected Mayoral system, which leaves ward councillors powerless. Only 11 other councils in England have gone for this and I think we should go back to ...

I laughed out load at the polical bore comment. However ... The argument that campaigning for a new referendum is trying "to overturn the democratic will of the electors by the back door" simply doesn't hold water. Firstly. its just an ad hominem argument rather than an argument about the issue ...

Totally agree. He won the Mayoral election fair and square and whatever happens Steve Bullock will remain as Mayor of Lewisham until he has served out his term of office. That's laid down in secondary legislation namely Section 9 4(a) of Statutory Instrument 2001/1003. The debate is about whether we ...

nasaroc I think its worth mentioning that the committee system is long dead having been abolished by the Local Government Act 2000. This Act forced all councils to adopt an executive model of governance with all decisions being made by an executive which consists of either (a) directly elected Mayor ...

More details of this council meeting can be found here

http://www.bringbackdemocracy.org.uk/bb ... elease.asp

with the opposing view available on the local Labour party website here

http://www.lewisham.labour.co.uk/ViewPa ... Page=21381

Nick

In fairness, her appointment to cabinet only became official last night and I totally forgot actually to send the letter to her! I'm off to drop in some other paperwork at the Town Hall now so will hand deliver a copy now.

I knew next to nothing about Crystal Palace so did a quick bit of research. According to http://www.londonpoolscampaign.com/crystalpalace, "The Mayor’s London Development Agency is taking a lease on the NSC from February 2006 and has used an existing forum on the future of Crystal Palace Park to c ...

Chris Although its not official yet congratulations on being appointed to the Cabinet with responsibility for Community Services. As part of your portfolio is provision of Leisure Services you will of course be responsible for the thorny subject of Ladywell Leisure Centre. As you may be aware, I ...

I'm going to tread very carefully into this conversation. I was asked to speak at the Pensioners Forum today and made the point that if you vote for a leading political party you know pretty much what you are voting for. As independent candidates or candidates for small parties we have more of a ...

It has been posted to the http://www.saveladywellpool.com website as a huge (53MB) audio file. There's also a version which we've broken down into smaller wma files (one per question each around 1MB) and posted them temporarily on John Hamiltons's website at http://www.johnhamilton.co.uk until we ...