Could someone from Lewisham Council explain planning procedures to the population which expects considered decisions, and pays for them too?

A vicar from Deptford wants to know how the councillors reached their decision no answer on that one, yet ...

The first Bell Green hearing, on the next stage of plans, descended into chaos.

Two hundred objectors, presumably taxpayers and voters, are ignored in favour of a representative of a company based in a tax haven.

The Downham Leisure Centre PFI now faces a further "thorough review" from Mayor Bullock himself.

The Ladywell pool saga is a true Gordian knot.

The Council complains it is too expensive to maintain an historic building, which "doesn't pay its way", then devises a complex, expensive "solution" which means it is even less likely to pay its way, burdening us all, yet again.

Does the Mayor know there is an election next year?

Michael de Vere Lee