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Sir Steve Bullock & Kris Hibbert to be granted Honorary Freedoms of the Borough

ForestHull
30 Jul '19

The recommendation to grant Honorary Freedoms of the Borough to Sir Steve Bullock and Kris Hibbert were recently approved at the following Council meeting:

http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=4707

Sir Steve was the first directly elected Mayor of Lewisham, serving for 16 years from 2002-2018. Prior to that he was elected as a councillor from 1982, where he Served as Chair of Finance, Chair of Leisure and Deputy Leader of the Council, before serving as Leader of the Council from 1988-93.

Kris served as a councillor for eight years, from 1982-90. She was a pioneer, helping set up the first local government committee on women’s issues anywhere inBritain, the Women’s Committee, which she served on from 1983-89. She also served on many of the Council’s other major committees including Police; Leisure;
and Employment and Industry, which she chaired from 1986-88.

Further info on this fantastic achievement from the Council documents:

Lewisham has awarded the Freedom just fifteen times as follows:-

  • Alan Milner Smith, former Town Clerk (9 December 1971)
  • Fred Winslade, CBE, the first Leader of Lewisham Council (28 November 1975)
  • Daisy Hurren, long serving Councillor, (10 October 1985)
  • Andy Hawkins, former Leader of the Council (30 March 1990)
  • The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, former resident (4 May 1990)
  • Terry Waite, CBE (16 November 1992)
  • Sybil Phoenix, MBE, Community leader, (8 March 1996)
  • Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of St. Christopher’s Hospice (10 March 2000)
  • Les Eytle, long serving Councillor, (8 June 2007)
  • Dame Doreen Lawrence, founder of the Stephen Lawrence Centre (26 June 2013)
  • Dame Erica Pienaar, for services to Education in Lewisham (26 June 2013)
  • Dame Joan Ruddock, MP for Deptford 1987 to 2015 (25 November 2015)
  • Bridget Prentice, MP for Lewisham East 1992 to 2010 (25 November 2015)
  • Sir Ian Mills (2 March 2018)
  • Wozzy Brewster (23 March 2018)