After the recent elections I was going through lots of old papers in post election clean-up. I cam across lots of stuff from when I first stood as a councillor in 2005/2006 with Richard Thomas and Jonathan Mitchell.

We stood on a promise to fix the following six things:

1. New secondary – East Dulwich Harris Boys Academy – OPENED

2. Modernise all street lighting – COMPLETED

3. Longer opening hours – Dulwich Library opened on Wednesdays making it open 7 days a week – COMPLETED

4. Modernise the Dulwich Leisure Centre – COMPLETED

5. Fight to keep East Dulwich surburban and not redesignated as urban – COMPLETED

6. Campaign to keep East Dulwich Police station – SUCCESSFUL 2006-2010 (but since closed by Boris in 2013).

We were hugely successful in getting them all done at the time. Boy did it take a lot of work but making the area is why I was persuaded to enter local politics.