meeting about Forest Hill subway

11:00 to about 12:00, with Richard Hibbert and Ilse Towler (FH Soc), John Bishop (LBL Highways) and Ian Ransom (LBL Regen programme manager). Agreed to proceed with within-budget quote from Conway, including the ceiling cladding but omitting work on the stairs - which would cost another £24K-ish and is definitely Network Rail's safety problem. Will make a time-limited (by our/Conway's works timetable) offer to NR which they can accept/fund to get the stairs done cheaper (with a possible £4K contribution from LBL plus saving from coordination with our works); or ignore, so we will have to use publicity to highlight the one unfinished (and dangerous) aspect of the subway and press them to do it anyway.

I also mentioned the Skanska lighting issues to Ian Ransom, as he is taking over looking after the street lighting project from Steve Gough.