Who's standing in the Sydenham by election in May?

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syd
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Hello Jack, what was the process for your selection for this seat?
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Re: Who's standing in the Sydenham by election in May?

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syd wrote: 22 Mar 2021 06:40 Hello Jack, what was the process for your selection for this seat?
Hello. Sydenham Labour Party members decide the local candidate. As you’d expect, the associated meetings and voting were done remotely.
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Thanks Jack for replying, the magic words (well, letters) “STV” sound good to me.
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Re: Who's standing in the Sydenham by election in May?

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jack_lavery wrote: 24 Mar 2021 20:29
syd wrote: 22 Mar 2021 06:40 Hello Jack, what was the process for your selection for this seat?
Hello. Sydenham Labour Party members decide the local candidate. As you’d expect, the associated meetings and voting were done remotely.
Great thanks for confirming
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Re: Who's standing in the Sydenham by election in May?

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Hi Jack,

Across Lewisham, amenity societies have expressed concerns about the state of planning consultantions, as they have been problematic for many years now. Would you expect societies to publicly represent local concerns, or would you encourage them to stay quiet, and be loyal to the one-party state?

I'd also like to hear the other candidates' positions on this question.
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Re: Who's standing in the Sydenham by election in May?

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JRW wrote: 8 Apr 2021 15:47 Across Lewisham, amenity societies have expressed concerns about the state of planning consultantions, as they have been problematic for many years now. Would you expect societies to publicly represent local concerns, or would you encourage them to stay quiet, and be loyal to the one-party state?
A good place to start would be to recognise that Civic Amenity societies are on balance probably a very good thing for local communities across a wide spectrum of beneficial activities.

In planning and consultations it could be held that a good society acts as the "third leg" in a rules- based planning system, particularly when the society itself has robust and transparent processes which it uses to engage with its members and the wider community that it purports to represent.

It is essential that it is suitably resourced, is representative and does not exclude the opinions of those with whom it has formed an adversarial relationship and elects to not even to consider their views.

It is crucial that the society does not become introspective where it risks developing an insular collective mindset that leads it to conclude that "it knows best" and instead of collaborating and consulting with its community to establish what the consensus view is before it begins to predetermine outcomes for proposals and lays out these unrepresentative views for rubber-stamping and ultimate publication of such views that are not well founded nor developed in an appropriate consultation base.

The "third leg" concept is a scenario in which three pillars exist in planning and consultation events: a proposer who wants to build or develop a scheme and will be driven by need and supported by professional advice and will want to achieve their goals for the proposed scheme; an LPA who must be seen to approach every application with balance, consistency and openness and has ultimate responsibility to approve or reject applications based upon the proposals conformance to planning policies and rules set in the local context and to police non-conformities for approved schemes; a civic society that in best practice terms should be placed to be the most effective party in its ability to consult and collaborate with its community and present those views to the proposer and LPA, whether those views represent a supportive stance or are non-supportive.

A society should recognise the boundaries of its own geographic areas of benefit and desist and refrain from straying into adjacent areas to formulate and propose pre-defined schemes or pre-set objectives to its neighbours with whom it has conducted no consultation and where it has no representation.

This constraint of course should not prevent any society from commenting on any proposal being developed in a neighbouring area, particularly and specifically if any element of that scheme has a direct and consequential impact on the society's own area of benefit.
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JRW wrote: 8 Apr 2021 15:47 Hi Jack,

Across Lewisham, amenity societies have expressed concerns about the state of planning consultantions, as they have been problematic for many years now. Would you expect societies to publicly represent local concerns, or would you encourage them to stay quiet, and be loyal to the one-party state?

I'd also like to hear the other candidates' positions on this question.
You would expect them to, but in our case it’s hard to see it as representing anything other than the views of its own leadership. It does not consult with the wider community before campaigning to stop new developments, for example. Happily, the council are well aware of this.
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Labour won. Regardless of who you vote for, I do find it awful that Lewisham has no opposition. Roll on proportional representation
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Re: Who's standing in the Sydenham by election in May?

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Full results of the election are here -> https://lewisham.gov.uk/mayorandcouncil ... y-election

Surprisingly high turnout (45%) given that it was a foregone conclusion.
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Yep. More of the same. Keep the nice streets clean, turn them into ltn’s and eff the rest.
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