Councillor Chris Best
Email: chris.best@lewisham.gov.uk
Council: Lewisham
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Activity Timeline
Meetings Attended Note this may include planned future meetings.
38 meetings · Page 5 of 8
NCIL Assembly Meeting, Sydenham Assembly - Saturday, 1st February, 2025 11.00 am
Council - Wednesday, 22nd January, 2025 7.30 pm
The Council approved the Statement of Accounts 2023/24 and Annual Report 2023/24. The Council also approved a number of amendments to the Council’s Constitution and, as part of its statutory duty, approved changes to the polling scheme for elections and referendums. Finally, the Council adopted a motion declaring Lewisham a “Right to Food Borough”.
Safer Stronger Communities Select Committee - Tuesday, 21st January, 2025 7.00 pm
This meeting of Lewisham Council's Safer Stronger Communities Select Committee included the scheduled consideration of its annual report on the demographic makeup of the workforce, an update on efforts to improve community cohesion in the borough, and a review of the committee’s work programme.
Pensions Investment Committee - Wednesday, 8th January, 2025 6.00 pm
The Pensions Investment Committee met to confirm the minutes of its previous meeting, but was ultimately unable to do so. The committee will now have to wait until February to confirm the minutes from its November meeting.
Decisions from Meetings
68 decisions · Page 1 of 14
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: 38
Average per Month: 1.9
Decisions Recorded: 68