Merry Christmas to all. May all your wishes come true this day.
    These photos we received from a resident, where you can see multiple buses parked up across from their house (engines on in one photo) and blocking access to the school, parked across the driveway. This the update we received after complaints were received: Both Erlanger Road and Kitto Road are on the secondary gritting route. However for much of last week we were concentrating on the primary routes. Kitto Road, in any case, can only be gritted by the gritters up to the turning before the width restriction as this is the last point at which the gritters can turn off. The remaining section would have to be gritted by hand off the back of a small flat bed truck. I'm afraid I can't confirm at the moment if and when Kitto and Erlanger Roads were gritted as we are awaiting the tracking information from Conways gritters. I will get back to you when we know more on this. http://www.community-spaces.org.uk/ The programme helps community groups in England create or improve green, open spaces to enhance people’s quality of life. Community Spaces is funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Grants start at £10,000 - Deadline 7th Jan DATE: 6th December 2010 TIME OF ISSUE: 16:30 Precautionary Road Salting planned for this evening/tomorrow morning for the following routes: Primary Routes – these roads will be gritted tonight; tomorrow morning will be dependant on the 11pm / 3am forecast. Secondary Routes – nothing planned at present; however tomorrow morning will be dependant on the 11pm / 3am forecast.  Local residents along with Joan, Paul and some local members knocked on doors this afternoon to seek resident's views on a small play area next to McMillan House. This project was initiated by local resident Sacha, who contacted us about his idea. The playarea would be for children upto 12 and would utilise a forgotten piece of land. We are now seeking funding from Lewisham Homes to carry out the project.  This afternoon, we delivered letters to residents in Pulton and Rokeland Houses about the communal heating systems, which was turned off for five months of the year. Understandably, some residents were concerned. As a result of a meeting with ward councillors and Lewisham Homes, the heating system will now be left on for residents to choose when to heat their homes. Please see the letter we delivered below: Communal Heating System As you know, several residents and local ward councillors met recently with a representative of Lewisham Homes to talk about their proposal to turn the communal heating system off over the Summer months. At the meeting Lewisham Homes was presented with a list of residents’ names – representing most residents who live in the two houses – asking that the heating system remain on 52 weeks per year, as at present. Ward councillors then met with Andrew Potter, Chief Executive of Lewisham Homes to press home residents’ concerns. We are now very pleased to inform you that Lewisham Homes has subsequently agreed to keep the heating on for the full 52 weeks of the year. You will receive a letter from Lewisham Homes confirming this information in the coming week. In our meeting with Mr Potter we also expressed our concern about level of heating changes, which seem high. He advised us that Lewisham Council had recently commissioned a new contract with energy suppliers and that this is likely to result in reductions in heating charges across all the communal heating schemes that Lewisham Homes manage. As your local ward councillors we will seek to ensure that any energy cost savings are passed onto residents through a reduction in heating charges. We wish to thank residents for raising this issue. Thanks to all residents who took part in the consultation and we will do our best to get a response from TfL.  Friday night saw quiz success for the Telegraph Hill Labour Party team, where Paul and Joan stretched our brains to the limit and we came third. You may laugh, but last time we came last! The quiz was held at the Rivoli Ballroom on behalf of the Lavender Trust which raises money specifically to fund information and support for younger women with breast cancer. It is the only fund in the UK dedicated to addressing the particular needs of this age group. It was founded in 1998 by Justine Picardie and Beth Wagstaff, in memory of Justine’s sister Ruth, who died of breast cancer at the age of 33. Beth had also been diagnosed with the disease in her early 30s, and like Ruth, and many other young women with breast cancer, she felt there was a failure in the provision of services for her age group. The Lavender Trust was therefore set up in order to raise money to help women in similar circumstances. Each year, 8,000 women under the age of 50 are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the Lavender Trust is still the only fund in the UK dedicated to addressing their particular needs and concerns. Each May the Lavender Trust runs Lavender Week to raise awareness of issues facing younger women with breast cancer and to raise extra money to fund Breast Cancer Care's services for younger women. To find out more about the trust click HERE. Attached is a a spreadsheet of the primary and secondary gritting routes. Apologies but it is only in Excel format. 
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