Councillor Suzannah Clarke
Email: suzannah.clarke@lewisham.gov.uk
Council: Lewisham
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Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
35 meetings · Page 5 of 7
Housing Select Committee - Thursday, 21st November, 2024 7.00 pm
The committee approved the proposed changes to Lewisham’s Housing Revenue Account for 2025/26. This included an average rent increase of 2.7% for council tenants and an average increase to service charges of £10.98 or 39.9%. Tenants in properties managed by Regenter B3 will see an average increase to their service charges of £0.90. The committee also approved an average increase of 2.7% to garage rents. The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman’s report into the Council’s handling of a resident's homelessness application was noted. The committee agreed the Cabinet Member for Housing Management and Homelessness should oversee the action plan that has been produced to prevent a reoccurrence of the issues identified in the report.
Strategic Planning Committee - Thursday, 7th November, 2024 7.30 pm
The meeting was scheduled to discuss the redevelopment of two sites. Councillors were asked to declare any interests they had in the applications, and were scheduled to be asked to confirm the minutes of the previous Strategic Planning Committee meeting, which was held on the 31st of July 2024.
Strategic Planning Committee - Tuesday, 22nd October, 2024 7.00 pm
This meeting was about whether to approve two applications for large, mixed-use developments.
Planning Committee B - Wednesday, 2nd October, 2024 8.00 pm
The Planning Committee B of Lewisham Council met on 02 October 2024. The agenda for the meeting included the election of a new Vice Chair for the committee.
Decisions from Meetings
58 decisions · Page 1 of 12
Statement of Accounts 2024-25
From: Council - Wednesday, 26th November, 2025 7.30 pm - November 26, 2025
... to note the contents of the report, approve agreed audit adjustments to the 2024/25 Statement of Accounts and Pension Fund Accounts, approve delegation to the Section 151 Officer to agree changes to audit adjustments, the final Statement of Accounts for publication, and changes to the Auditor’s Annual Report, and note the management representation letters and the Auditor’s Annual Report.
Recommendations Approved
Motions
From: Council - Wednesday, 24th September, 2025 7.30 pm - September 24, 2025
...to support Labour's 30 Hours of Free Childcare and to bring Thames Water back into public ownership.
Recommendations Approved
Appointment of Independent Persons
From: Council - Wednesday, 24th September, 2025 7.30 pm - September 24, 2025
...to appoint Kalwant Grewal and Katy Prestedge as two independent persons to the Standards Committee.
Recommendations Approved
Use of Substitutes
From: Council - Wednesday, 24th September, 2025 7.30 pm - September 24, 2025
...to include the temporary arrangements for the use of substitutes in committees, previously approved on January 22nd, 2025, into the Committee Procedure Rules under Part 4 of the Constitution.
Recommendations Approved
Dispensation under Section 85 Local Government Act 1972
From: Council - Wednesday, 24th September, 2025 7.30 pm - September 24, 2025
...to grant Councillor Coral Howard a dispensation from the meeting attendance requirements of Section 85 of the Local Government Act 1972 until May 7th, 2026, due to illness.
Recommendations Approved
Summary
Meetings Attended: 35
Average per Month: 1.8
Decisions Recorded: 58