| Membership You are invited to become a member of TLERA. A single annual subscription of £5 per household is charged, regardless of the number of adults in the household. As a member, you will be represented on a day to day basis by your Road Representative and by a Committee elected at the Annual General Meeting. You will be kept in touch with what is happening on and around the Estate, through newsletters, social events and leaflets. Renewal envelopes have now been distributed to every household, please return them to your road representative.
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Tewkesbury Lodge was a large house in Honor Oak Road near the bottom of Horniman Drive that had extensive grounds covering part of the hill that gives Forest Hill its name. It was demolished early in the 20th century. The gardens of the Lodge and surrounding fields were developed during the 1920's and 1930's, largely with detached or semi-detached houses. Occupants of some of these homes formed the Tewkesbury Lodge Estate Residents' Association to oppose the construction of a tower block on the summit of the hill in 1960 - on the site now occupied by Horniman School. The next campaign was also related to tower blocks - opposing high buildings as part of the Council developmentat the end of Wood Vale on the site of the former Honor Oak station. The blocks built were very much lower than originally proposed. Following early successes opposing undesirable planning developments, the Association's objectives rapidly broadened to encompass the protection of both the built and the natural environment.
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View of the hill from Langton Rise |