Cllr Paul Bell | Working for Telegraph Hill

Children and Young People
 
1) Opened Sure Start Children's Centres at the following sites:
 
        - Hatcham Oak Early Childhood Centre, Walbutton Road
        - Amersham Early Childhood Centre
        - Honor Oak Early Childhood Centre
2) Primary school works
        - St. James Hatcham: £0.3M-New Fire Alarm & Emergency Lighting, junior block alterations & infant corridor remodelling, main entrance security.
 
3) GCSE results - 42.5% in Telegraph Hill getting 5 good GCSEs in 1997.  Figure now 98.1%
 
4) Set up the Young Mayor scheme and Young Citizens' Panel - over 50% turnout at last election.
 
Community
 
1) Local Assembly set up.  Mayor's fund allocated.
Millwall Community - youth football coaching sessions - £2,916
Frendsbury Gardens outreach project - £11,750
Telegraph Hill Centre Café - internet café - £10,000
Elevating Success - 'On the Road' driving project for young people - £5,175
Ministry of Youth - multimedia and creative writing project for 12 young people aged 11-24 - £6,359
We Care Café - internet café and drop in - £3,800
Enviroworks - Honor Oak garden and allotments development - £10,000.
 
2) Police Safer Neighbourghood Team in every ward
 
3) Council funding 12 PCSOs across the borough
 
4) Community Wardens now operate in New Cross Gate and Honour Oak
 
5) Introduced Dog Control Orders
 
Economy
 
1) 400 jobs in public and third sector created by Future Jobs Fund for 18-24 year olds unemployed for more than 6 months
 
2) Apprenticeships scheme set up.  Labour pledge locally is to expand the number of apprenticeships available.
 
3) Council Tax frozen.  Labour pledge is for Council Tax not to rise higher than inflation.
 
4) Expanded Small Business Advisory service
 
Environment and Parks
 
1) Community Gardens scheme recently set up allowing residents to use municipally owned scraps of land for growing food.
 
2) Garden Waste recycling point opened on Kitto Road, Telegraph Hill.
 
3) Telegraph Hill Park - former toilet block refurbished - now houses new toilets and park keeper offices.  Park awarded Green Flag in 2005/6
 
4) Set up recycling scheme for mattresses

I have added the Telegraph Hill Festival and Bold Vision websites to the Notice Board. Why not take a look by clicking HERE.

I attended the Telegraph Hill Ward Assembly tonight at the Barnes Wallis Centre and it was a very interesting evening. Most of the evening was devoted to health in the ward with presentations from Dr Brian Fisher of the PCT, Lewisham Link and workers in mental health wellbeing.

The main focus of the evening was on what people thought was good about healthcare provision in Lewisham and what needed to be improved. Generally Lewisham Hospital scored quite highly, but convenient and available appointment times at GP surgeries and the hospital Outpatient department needed improving.

Other topics covered were:

- Outdoor Gym
- The loss of the pedestrian crossing by Barclays Bank in New Cross
- Traffic on Gellatly Road
- Queen's Road llitter
- Good crime figures for the Somerville Estate
- Consultations at Kender Road Primary School - new road layouts which are running on Thusday  between 4pm and 8pm; and Saturday between 10am and 3pm.
- Hate crime projects
- Consulation on 343 / N343 bus routes.

Contact me if you need further information on anything stated here. I will be posting a separate article on the Telegraph Hill Labour Website about the TFL consultation on the 343 shortly.