Committee Meeting - 26th October

Full minutes of the committee meetings are distributed to members of the committee and are available on request to members of the Society. However, below are a few notes from the meeting which cover the key points discussed in the meeting:

• Review of Inaugural General Meeting
• Went well with a good turn out
• Guest speaker was very useful and gave a good focus to the evening
• Not enough time to discuss other issues of interest to members
• Membership for the Society is approaching 300 members. It was confirmed that £5 is an annual membership fee.
• Sub-Committees were setup on five topics. These will be able to focus on specific areas of interest:
  
• Transport
• Planning
• Leisure and Amenities
• Communications and Events
• Constitutional Review
  
• We intend to print and distribute a newsletter to members at the beginning of December
• We intend to have general/public meetings more than once per year and intend to have the next meeting early in 2007 (possibly February or March).
• Planning issues:
• Some improvements have been achieved for the Finches site and the latest plans are available on Lewisham's Website today (26th October)
• Honor Oak / Tyson Road development is likely to need some scrutiny later this year
• Transport issues:
• We have the answers from Nigel D'Souza to the remaining questions from the General Meeting. Transport committee will look at these responses and prepare feedback for Lewisham Council Sustainable Development Committee.
• Transport issues include roads as well as trains. There are plans to have traffic calming in Dartmouth Road which will help reduce traffic speeds