We would like to hear the views of our residents, audiences and visitors to Lewisham on the Borough, on arts and culture and about what it has meant to be the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture in 2022. Your feedback will be used to better understand how people feel about our London...
Closed 13 February 2023
What is a Learning Disability? A learning disability is defined as: A significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information, to learn new skills (impaired intelligence), with a reduced ability to cope independently (impaired social functioning),...
Closes 24 October 2023
As we look to the future, we are launching Lewisham 2030 which will set out our shared hopes and ambitions for the borough into the next decade. There are lots of wonderful things about Lewisham that we wish to preserve and build upon, but there are always opportunities to improve. We...
Closes 29 October 2023
Finding out what activities you would like in your local area
Closes 1 November 2023
What's this survey about? We are applying for funding to improve the courts in areas around Lewisham We want to ensure that local residents are involved in deciding what kind of sports /activities you are interested in. This will ensure we put in the right equipment and that the surface...
Closes 1 November 2023
About the register We have set up a register for people who are interested in the self-build or custom-build houses in Lewisham, in line with our duties according to the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015 and the Self-build and Custom Housebuilding (Register) Regulations 2016. The...
Closes 1 April 2025
Dementia is not a disease in itself. Dementia is a word used to describe a group of symptoms that occur when brain cells stop working properly. Dementia affects memory, thinking, behaviour and emotion Early symptoms of dementia can include memory loss, difficulty performing familiar...
Closed 15 September 2023
The Council is the licensing authority in Lewisham for the purposes of premises-based licensing activity under the Gambling Act 2005 (the Act). The Act has three licensing objectives: preventing gambling from being a source of crime or disorder, being associated with...
Closed 28 August 2023
We are asking the local community to share their ideas for the future of Deptford High Street. If you are a resident, business, trader, visitor or representative of a local community group, we want to hear from you. See the 'related activity' link to access the commonplace consultation.
Closed 31 July 2023
Lewisham Council commission a variety of services within Lewisham, mainly Pharmacies and GP Surgeries to meet the needs of residents, with the aim to help and support individuals and our local communities to access contraception, medication and harm reduction interventions for drug and alcohol...
Closed 7 July 2023
Lewisham Council commission a variety of services within Pharmacies and GP Surgeries to meet the needs our residents. These Services aim to help and support local communities to access contraception, medication and harm reduction interventions for drug and alcohol use based on their level of need....
Closed 7 July 2023
Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes
We asked business ratepayers within the borough for their views on our proposed budget for 2023-24, as business rates are a key contributor to our income budget. Business rates help support local services including street lighting, waste collection and public parks. We laid out the Council’s seven Priorities and asked ratepayers to tell us what was most important to them, as well as asking what they thought we were doing well and what needs improvement.
To help Lewisham Council to prepare an assessment of the current and future needs of local people for pharmacy services, we asked you to tell us how your local pharmacy (also called a chemist) is giving you the things that you need. For example, your prescription, getting advice on treating minor health concerns and healthy living and/or essential vaccination.
Overall, 129 participants completed the survey, and more than 98% were Lewisham residents. Most of the respondents were from SE6 (postcode) or SE13. Majority of the respondents were female (78%) and age group of 45-74 (66%). About 59% of the respondents identified themselves as White British. Around 31% of the respondents consider themselves to have a disability and Hidden disability: Diabetes was declared from 64% of the respondents who said to have a disability.
The survey findings were as follows:
We used your feedback to help develop our draft of the Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (PNA) which is now available to review from this link (https://consultation.lewisham.gov.uk/community-services/lewishampna/).
We are now at the second stage of our consultation. A Public Consultation is being undertaken from 30th August 2022 to 28th October 2022, to seek the views of members of the public and other stakeholders, on whether they agree with the contents of this Draft Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Report and whether it addresses issues that they consider relevant to the provision of pharmaceutical services. We would like you to give us your views on the draft PNA report by the 28th October. The feedback will be reported and reflected in the final revised Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Report, in November 2022.
Between 9th May and 10th June 2022 we asked residents about their knowledge of suicide prevention interventions and training available.
89 responses were received, mostly female and white. All those who responded had heard of the Samaritans but much fewer had heard of Papyrus or the Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS). Not many knew what they would say to someone who admitted to wanting to take their own life.
In December 2022 the Council’s Health and Wellbeing Board (chaired by the Mayor) agreed the strategy and the action plan and work will begin to deliver against the aims set out in the strategy. Both the strategy and action plan can be found below.